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Differential expression of prognostic proteomic markers in primary tumour, venous tumour thrombus and metastatic renal cell cancer tissue and correlation with patient outcome

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05/04/2013
Author
Laird, Alexander
O'Mahony, Fiach C.
Nanda, Jyoti
Riddick, Antony C. P.
O'Donnell, Marie
Harrison, David J.
Stewart, Grant D.
Keywords
Endothelial growth-factor
P53 protein expression
Messenger-RNA expression
Clear-cell
Lymph-node
Clinicopathological parameters
Pathological features
Radical nephrectomy
Colorectal-cancer
Interferon-alpha
R Medicine (General)
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Abstract
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most deadly of urological malignancies. Metastatic disease affects one third of patients at diagnosis with a further third developing metastatic disease after extirpative surgery. Heterogeneity in the clinical course ensures predicting metastasis is notoriously difficult, despite the routine use of prognostic clinico-pathological parameters in risk stratification. With greater understanding of pathways involved in disease pathogenesis, a number of biomarkers have been shown to have prognostic significance, including Ki67, p53, vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (VEGFR1) and ligand D (VEGFD), SNAIL and SLUG. Previous pathway analysis has been from study of the primary tumour, with little attention to the metastatic tumours which are the focus of targeted molecular therapies. As such, in this study a tissue microarray from 177 patients with primary renal tumour, renal vein tumour thrombus and/or RCC metastasis has been created and used with Automated Quantitative Analysis (AQUA) of immunofluorescence to study the prognostic significance of these markers in locally advanced and metastatic disease. Furthermore, this has allowed assessment of differential protein expression between the primary tumours, renal vein tumour thrombi and metastases. The results demonstrate that clinico-pathological parameters remain the most significant predictors of cancer specific survival; however, high VEGFR1 or VEGFD can predict poor cancer specific survival on univariate analysis for locally advanced and metastatic disease. There was significantly greater expression of Ki67, p53, VEGFR1, SLUG and SNAIL in the metastases compared with the primary tumours and renal vein tumour thrombi. With the exception of p53, these differences in protein expression have not been shown previously in RCC. This confirms the importance of proliferation, angiogenesis and epithelial to mesenchymal transition in the pathogenesis and metastasis of RCC. Importantly, this work highlights the need for further pathway analysis of metastatic tumours for overcoming drug resistance and developing new therapies.
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Laird , A , O'Mahony , F C , Nanda , J , Riddick , A C P , O'Donnell , M , Harrison , D J & Stewart , G D 2013 , ' Differential expression of prognostic proteomic markers in primary tumour, venous tumour thrombus and metastatic renal cell cancer tissue and correlation with patient outcome ' , PLoS ONE , vol. 8 , no. 4 , e60483 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060483
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PLoS ONE
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060483
ISSN
1932-6203
Type
Journal article
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Copyright: © 2013 Laird et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The work of the author AL is funded by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Robertson’s Trust, The Melville Trust for the care and cure of cancer and The Medical Research Council Scottish Clinical Pharmacology and Pathology Programme. The work of authors FCO, JN, ACPR, DJH and GDS mentioned above is funded by the Chief Scientist Office, grant number ETM37, and supported by Chief Scientist Funded Health Sciences Scotland and the Cancer Research UK Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5062

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