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- Title
Gastric cancer in young vs old Romanian patients: immunoprofile with emphasis on maspin and mena protein reactivity.
- Authors
Gurzu, Simona; Kadar, Zoltan; Sugimura, Haruhiko; Bara, Tivadar; Halmaciu, Ioana; Jung, Ioan
- Abstract
Increasing number of early-onset gastric carcinomas ( GCs) and controversial results regarding the differences among young and older patients with this type of cancer are the reasons why correlation of clinicopathological factors with molecular markers is necessary. The aim of our study was to compare the demographic, clinical and immunohistochemical ( IHC) aspects in Romanian patients with GC diagnosed below and above 45 years old. In 191 samples provided from patients with GC, the clinicopathological parameters were correlated with a panel of 15 antibodies: E-cadherin, HER-2, VEGF, CD31, CD105, COX-2, maspin, bax, bcl-2, p53, Ki67, MLH-1, MSH-2, mena protein and vimentin. Compared to the conventional cases, GCs diagnosed below 45 years old were more frequently located at the gastroesophageal junction and presented a higher percentage of lymph node metastases. The diffuse type E-cadherin/mena/p53/Ki67/bax-negative cases that displayed nuclear maspin positivity were also more frequently in younger patients. The intestinal type early-onset GCs were the most angiogenic ones, the apoptotic rate being lower than in the intestinal type GCs of the aged. Compared to the conventional cases, in the early-onset GCs the nuclear maspin-mediated antiproliferative activity is more intense in diffuse type while the mena-dependent tumor cell proliferation is more characteristic for intestinal type GCs.
- Subjects
CANCER diagnosis; STOMACH cancer; GASTRIC diseases; CLINICAL pathology; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC junction; VASCULAR endothelial growth factors; CELL proliferation
- Publication
APMIS, 2015, Vol 123, Issue 3, p223
- ISSN
0903-4641
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/apm.12347