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- Title
PI3‐kinase pathway biomarkers in oral cancer and tumor immune cells.
- Authors
Ibrahim, Mohammad Y.; Nunez, Maria I.; Harun, Nusrat; Lee, J. Jack; El‐Naggar, Adel K.; Ferrarotto, Renata; Wistuba, Ignacio; Myers, Jeffrey; Glisson, Bonnie S.; William, William N.
- Abstract
Background: This study investigated the hypothesis that phosphoinositide 3‐kinase (PI3‐kinase) pathway dysregulation in either head and neck cancer cells and/or tumor infiltrating immune cells would influence outcomes of patients with surgically treated oral tongue squamous cell carcinomas (SCC). Methods: We constructed tissue microarrays containing 123 oral tongue SCC samples and performed immunohistochemistry using antibodies against 7 PI3‐kinase pathway markers: phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), Akt, p‐Akt, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), phosphorylated‐mammalian target of rapamycin (p‐mTOR), survivin, and Ki‐67). Expression levels in cancer cells or tumor infiltrating immune cells were correlated with outcomes. Results: Higher levels of PTEN expression in immune cells were significantly associated with improved recurrence‐free survival (heart rate (HR) = 0.45, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.23‐0.90, P = .03), and overall survival (HR = 0.34, 95% CI 0.15‐0.76, P = .01) on univariate and multicovariate models. Conclusions: We identified a novel, negative prognostic role of PI3‐kinase activation (as determined by PTEN loss) in oral SCC infiltrating immune cells. These findings could be relevant for clinical development of PI‐3 kinase inhibitors for this disease.
- Subjects
SERINE/THREONINE kinases; CETUXIMAB; ORAL cancer
- Publication
Head & Neck, 2019, Vol 41, Issue 3, p615
- ISSN
1043-3074
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hed.25350