Prognostic value of glucose transporter 3 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Prognostic value of glucose transporter 3 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma.
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DOI:
10.3892/ol.2019.11191
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发表时间:
2020-01-01
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2.9
通讯作者:
Lu, Jun
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作者:
Gao, Hengjun;Hao, Yijie;Lu, Jun
Determining an effective biomarker for predicting the prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may improve patient survival rates. The present study aimed to investigate the expression of glucose transporter 3 (GLUT-3) in HCC and to determine its predictive value for the survival of patients with HCC. Immunohistochemistry was used to detect GLUT-3 expression in HCC tissues of 275 and 140 patients with HCC from training and validation cohorts, respectively. The association between GLUT-3 expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with HCC, and between GLUT-3 expression and patient survival rates were analyzed. The predictive value of GLUT-3 expression was confirmed using the validation cohort. The results demonstrated that the high GLUT-3 expression in HCC tissues was significantly associated with elevated alpha-fetoprotein level, large tumor size, poor histological differentiation and Tumor-Node-Metastasis stages III and IV (P