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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Knoener, Maximilian | Krech, Till | Puls, Florian | Lehmann, Ulrich | Kreipe, Hans | Christgen, Matthias
Affiliations: Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Note: [] Corresponding author: Matthias Christgen, Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany. Tel.: +49 511 532 4501; Fax: +49 511 532 4488, E-mail: Christgen.Matthias@MH-Hannover.de
Abstract: The cell surface glycoprotein KAI1/CD82 suppresses tumor growth and metastasis in animal models. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic relevance of KAI1/CD82 protein expression in human gastric cancer. Primary gastric carcinomas (n=271) with a mean clinical follow-up time of 48 months were immunostained using the monoclonal anti{-}KAI1/CD82 antibody G2. Staining was evaluated as negative versus positive for statistical analysis. KAI1/CD82 immunoreactivity was absent in 103/271 (38%) cases. There was a trend towards KAI1/CD82 negativity in poorly differentiated cases (p=0.0679). Moreover, KAI1/CD82-negative carcinomas were associated with a higher pT status (p=0.0222), metastatic lymph node involvement (p=0.0018) and a higher clinical tumor stage (p=0.0050). The median overall survival times of KAI1/CD82-negative and KAI1/CD82-positive gastric carcinomas were 20 and 37 months, respectively (p=0.2305). These results are in line with the proposed function of KAI1/CD82 as a suppressor of tumor growth and metastasis. However, these data suggest that KAI1/CD82, as detected by immunohistochemistry, is of limited value as a prognostic marker for gastric cancer in routine histological workup.
Keywords: Gastric cancer, prognostic markers, metastasis, immunohistochemistry
DOI: 10.3233/DMA-2012-0896
Journal: Disease Markers, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 337-342, 2012
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