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Published on: July 20, 2014
Caveolin 1 expression correlates with poor prognosis and focal adhesion kinase expression in gastric cancer
Kyung Han Nam1, Byung Lan Lee, Joo Hyun Park
1Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea.
Objective:
Caveolin 1 gene is known as a tumor promoter or suppressor, depending on the tumor type and/or tumor stage. We aimed to investigate the clinical significance of caveolin 1 protein (Cav1) expression in gastric cancer (GC).
Methods:
Immunohistochemistry was performed on tissue array slides containing 405 GC specimens. The relationships between Cav1 expression and clinicopathological factors, prognosis, focal adhesion kinase expression, mucin phenotypes and p53 expression were analyzed.
Results:
In non-neoplastic gastric mucosa, Cav1 was not expressed in the epithelial compartment. In GC, positive staining of Cav1 was shown in 22 (5.4%) of 405 cases and was significantly higher in the advanced GC group than in the early GC group (p = 0.037). Also, it was significantly associated with advanced pTNM stage (p = 0.027) and lymph node metastasis (p = 0.018). Moreover, survival analysis showed that Cav1 expression was an independent prognostic factor of poor survival (p = 0.028). In addition, the expression of Cav1 was positively correlated with that of focal adhesion kinase (p = 0.034).
Conclusions:
These results indicate that the expression of Cav1 is significantly correlated with cancer progression and poor prognosis in GC. Thus, Cav1 could supplement its protein expression for the diagnosis and treatment of GC.
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