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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-6-13
pubmed:abstractText
In order to determine retrospectively the impact of some cytometric and immunohistochemical parameters on the overall survival of gastric cancer patients treated with surgery alone, paraffin-embedded tumor samples from 137 gastric carcinoma patients undergoing curative resection from 1987-1993 were analyzed by flow cytometry (FCM) and immunohistochemistry (p53, c-erbB-2, and PCNA expression). FCM-derived parameters were DNA ploidy and fraction of S-phase cells (SPF). Multiple regression analysis was applied to determine the prognostic significance of the conventional clinicopathologic findings together with the flow cytometric and immunohistochemical parameters on overall survival. When all parameters were entered simultaneously into the Cox regression model, stage and DNA ploidy (DNA index >1.35) clearly emerged as the only independent prognostic factors. When the stages were analysed separately, the independent prognostic factors resulted DNA ploidy in early stages (I-II) and grading in stage IIIA tumors. For stage IIIB tumors, no independent prognostic factor was found. These results indicate that the DNA ploidy pattern is a valuable predictor of survival in curatively resected gastric cancer patients, especially when less advanced tumors are taken into consideration.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0196-4763
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
27-34
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Carcinoma, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Follow-Up Studies, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Neoplasm Staging, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Ploidies, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Receptor, erbB-2, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Regression Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Stomach Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Survival Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:10679740-Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Flow cytometric DNA ploidy, p53, PCNA, and c-erbB-2 protein expressions as predictors of survival in surgically resected gastric cancer patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Section of Toxicology and Biomedical Sciences, ENEA CR Casaccia, Rome, Italy. tirindelli@casaccia.enea.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article