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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-3-2
pubmed:abstractText
We studied the relation between clinicopathological factors and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) activity in gastric and colorectal carcinomas. Specimens obtained by surgery from 27 gastric and 17 colorectal carcinomas and their normal mucosa were examined. The levels of DPD activity in the gastric carcinomas and their normal mucosa were significantly higher than those in colorectal carcinomas and their normal counterparts, respectively (both P's < 0.0001). The gastric carcinomas had significantly higher DPD activities than their normal mucosa (P = 0.028), but the colorectal carcinomas did not. Among the clinicopathological factors, which included invasion/metastatic status and staging, the only effect was that of the histological differences of gastric cancer on DPD activity. That is, the level of DPD activity of the histologically undifferentiated gastric carcinoma was significantly higher than that of the differentiated type. No prognostic predictive values of DPD were recognized in either gastric and colorectal cancer. In conclusion, the higher DPD activity in gastric cancer than colorectal cancer may be due to the higher DPD activity in the background mucosa of origin, and the higher population of undifferentiated type of histological classification, compared to the colorectal counterparts.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0163-2116
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
60-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Differences in dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase activities between gastric and colorectal cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgical Oncology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-5-4 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan. bunzo@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Evaluation Studies