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Diagnostic Pathology
Published in: Diagnostic Pathology 1/2013

Open Access 01-12-2013 | Research

Combined aberrant expression of E-cadherin and S100A4, but not β-catenin is associated with disease-free survival and overall survival in colorectal cancer patients

Authors: Sang-Jeon Lee, Song Yi Choi, Wun-Jae Kim, Meiying Ji, Taek-Gu Lee, Bo-Ra Son, Soon Man Yoon, Rohyun Sung, Eun Jeoung Lee, Sei Jin Youn, Seon Mee Park

Published in: Diagnostic Pathology | Issue 1/2013

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Abstract

Background/Aims

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in cancers is related to metastasis, recurrence, and poor prognosis. We evaluated whether EMT-related proteins can act as prognostic biomarkers in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients.

Methods

We evaluated the expression of E-cadherin, β-catenin, and S100A4 by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in 333 CRC tissues from the tumor center and invasive margin. Tumor budding, cell grade, tumor stage, type of tumor growth, peritumoral lymphocyte infiltration (TLI), and perineural- or lymphovascular invasion were evaluated as pathological parameters. mRNA levels of E-cadherin, N-cadherin, β-catenin, and S100A4 from 68 specimens from the same set were analyzed by real time quantitative RT-PCR.

Results

Loss of E-cadherin, nuclear β-catenin, and gain of S100A4 were higher in the invasive margin than in the tumor center. Loss of E-cadherin was associated with cell grade, macroscopic type, perineural invasion, and tumor budding, β-catenin with microsatellite instability and tumor site, and S100A4 with growth type, macroscopic type, AJCC stage, lymphovascular invasion, and perineural invasion. The aberrant expression of E-cadherin and S100A4 not β-catenin in the invasive margin was a significant and independent risk factor for disease-free and overall-survival by multivariate analysis, along with AJCC stage and perineural invasion. mRNA levels of β-catenin and S100A4 were correlated with the IHC findings at the tumor invasive margin. E-cadherin and N-cadherin showed a weak inverse correlation.

Conclusions

The combination of loss of E-cadherin and gain of S100A4 in the tumor invasive margin can be used to stratify patients with the same AJCC stage into different survival groups.

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The virtual slides for this article can be found here: http://​www.​diagnosticpathol​ogy.​diagnomx.​eu/​vs/​9398289629244673​
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Metadata
Title
Combined aberrant expression of E-cadherin and S100A4, but not β-catenin is associated with disease-free survival and overall survival in colorectal cancer patients
Authors
Sang-Jeon Lee
Song Yi Choi
Wun-Jae Kim
Meiying Ji
Taek-Gu Lee
Bo-Ra Son
Soon Man Yoon
Rohyun Sung
Eun Jeoung Lee
Sei Jin Youn
Seon Mee Park
Publication date
01-12-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Diagnostic Pathology / Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1746-1596
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-8-99

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