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Published on: February 21, 2014
DLC-1 expression levels in breast cancer assessed by qRT- PCR are negatively associated with malignancy
Cheng-Nong Guan1, Pei-Wen Zhang, Hai-Qing Lou
1Department of Oncology, the Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, China. chengnongguancn@163.com
Objective:
The aim of this study was to explore the expression of DLC-l in breast carcinoma and any association with tumor metastasis.
Methods:
51 surgical specimens of human breast carcinoma, divided into high invasive and low invasive groups according to their clinicopathological features, 30 cases of adjacent normal tissue and 28 benign breast lesions were examined by qRT-PCR for expression of DLC-1.
Results:
Expression level of DLC-1 in adjacent normal tissue and benign breast lesion specimens was higher than that in breast carcinoma (P<0.0001); the values in the high invasive group with synchronous metastases were also lower than in the low invasive group (P=0.0275). The correlation between DLC-1 expression level and tumor progression and metastasis of breast cancer was negative.
Conclusion:
As an anti-oncogene, DLC-1 could play an important part in breast carcinoma occurrence, progression, invasiveness and metastasis. Detecting the changes of the expression of DLC-1 in the breast carcinoma may contribute to earlier auxiliary diagnosis of invasiveness, metastasis and recrudescence.
