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Clinical value of tissue DNA integrity index in pancreatic cancer
Julia Tuchalska-Czuroń1, Jacek Lenart2, Justyna Augustyniak2
1Department of Surgical Research and Transplantology, Medical Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; Diagnostic Radiology Department, Central Clinical Hospital of the MSWiA in Warsaw, Poland.
Background:
DNA integrity index as a blood biomarker is associated with the prognosis of cancer patients.
Aims:
The primary goal of the study was to examine tissue DNA integrity index (DII) in a group of pancreatic cancer (PC) tumor tissues and control adjacent pancreatic tissues. We also aimed to test the relationship between the tumor tissue DII and the clinicopathological parameters and the overall survival.
Methods:
In the prospective study, DII was calculated using: the Alu 247/115 ratio, the LINE1 300/79 ratio and the average of the above values, based on the data obtained by real-time PCR. The tumors samples (n = 42) originated from the patients with pathologically confirmed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and the control adjacent pancreatic tissue specimens (n = 32) were received from surgical margins.
Results:
Specimens from the tumors pathologically marked as R1 (microscopic residual tumor) had a significantly higher LINE1 300/79 ratio values than specimens from adjacent normal pancreatic tissue (P<0.05). ROC curve analysis revealed that LINE1 300/79 ratio is a good parameter to distinguish between R0 and R1 tumors (AUC = 0.703, P<0.05).
Conclusions:
This is the first study exploring the tissue DNA integrity index (DII) in pancreatic cancer. LINE1 DII can be used as auxiliary parameter for objective evaluation of margin status.
