Molecular study of cellular adhesion genes in bladder cancer / Estudo molecular de genes envolvidos com adesão celular em câncer de bexiga

AUTOR(ES)

Pedro Edson Moreira Guimarães

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Introduction: Bladder cancer is the fifth neoplasm in Western countries, whose occurrence is 336,000 new cases annually, and also being responsible for 132,000 deaths in the worldwide. The incidence of bladder tumors in Brazil were 7,550 cases in 1999, representing 2,8% of overall diagnosed cancer in both gender. One of the main therapeutic challenges is identify which patients that present low grades neoplasms will present recurrence and/or progression. Methods: Sixty four patients were evaluated for E-cadherin e β-catenin immunoexpression in a retrospective study. The staining patterns were classified as focal or difuse and categorized as negative, weak, moderate or strong. Results were correlated with tumor grade, clinical stage, progression and recurrence free survival. Ninjurin 1 polymorphism was evaluated by PCR-RFLP in 66 patients and 108 controls. Genotypes were correlated with tumor grade, clinical stage, progression and recurrence free survival. Results: E-cadherin moderate and strong staining patterns were significantly associated with high clinical stages of urothelial carcinoma of bladder (p=0.005), and short recurrence (p=0.025) and progression (p=0.049). Difuse staining pattern were significantly associated with high clinical stages (p=0.010). Neither histological grade, clinical stages, recurrence and progression free survival were associated with β-catenin staining patters in our samples of urothelial carcinoma of bladder. The allele C of D110A ninjurin 1 polymorphism was significantly associated with high grade tumors (p=0.041). C carries patients compared with AA homozygous presented short disease progression (p=0.010). Conclusion: Our results suggest that E-cadherin expression is involved in urothelial carcinoma of bladder tumorigenesis and that D110A ninjurin 1 polymorphism may contribute to modulate this pathology.

ASSUNTO(S)

biological tumor markers neoplasia da bexiga urinária moléculas de adesão celular marcadores biológicos de tumor urinary bladder neoplasms cell adhesion molecules imunoistoquímica. immunohistochemistry genetic polimorfismo genético polymorphism

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