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Journal or Publication Title: | European urology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | AMSTERDAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 760-768 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Institutions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Pathologie Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Urologie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Keywords: | GROWTH-FACTOR RECEPTOR-3; TRANSITIONAL-CELL CARCINOMAS; IN-SITU; CYTOKERATIN-20 EXPRESSION; PROLIFERATION INDEX; PREDICT RECURRENCE; CANCER; P53; CLASSIFICATION; PROGNOSIS; bladder cancer; CK20; FGFR3; Ki-67; molecular markers; TP53 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Refereed: | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created at the University of Regensburg: | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Item ID: | 14596 |
Abstract
Objectives: Molecular markers superior to conventional clinicopathologic parameters are needed to predict disease courses in bladder cancer patients. In this study, we investigated four markers (Ki-67, TP53, CK20, FGFR3) in primary urothelial bladder tumours and compared them with traditional pathologic features. Methods: Tissue microarrays were used to analyse CK20, TP53, and Ki-67 expression ...

Abstract
Objectives: Molecular markers superior to conventional clinicopathologic parameters are needed to predict disease courses in bladder cancer patients. In this study, we investigated four markers (Ki-67, TP53, CK20, FGFR3) in primary urothelial bladder tumours and compared them with traditional pathologic features. Methods: Tissue microarrays were used to analyse CK20, TP53, and Ki-67 expression immunohistochemically in 255 unselected patients. FGFR3 mutations were detected by SNaPshot analysis. Results: Abnormal CK20 expression was strongly associated with higher tumour grades and stages (p < 0.001); however, 65% of pTa tumours revealed an abnormal CK20 pattern. In the group of pTaG1 tumours, 59% presented with an abnormal CK20 pattern, whereas 82% carried the FGFR3 mutation. In the group of bladder tumours with normal CK20 pattern, the FGFR3 gene was mutated in 89%, whereas a mutated FGFR3 gene was found in only 37% of cases with abnormal CK20 expression (p < 0.001). All markers proved to be strong predictors of disease-specific survival in univariate studies. However, in multivariate analyses they were not independent from classical pathologic parameters. None of the molecular markers was significantly associated with tumour recurrence. Conclusions: Dysregulation of CK20 expression is an early event in the carcinogenesis of papillary noninvasive bladder cancer, but occurs later than FGFR3 mutations. The group of low-grade noninvasive papillary tumours is defined by the presence of an FGFR3 mutation and a normal CK20 expression pattern. (c) 2007 European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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