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ABSTRACT: Circulating tumour DNA has previously been detected in serum and plasma of patients with lung cancer and head and neck cancer. These observations could potentially lead to new, specific and non-invasive tools for diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up in neoplastic disease, if found to be a more general phenomenon. To test if tumour DNA is also present in serum of patients with colorectal cancer, we selected 14 colorectal cancer patients with advanced disease. In seven patients, K-ras mutations were detected in the primary tumour, using mutant-specific primers for point mutations in codon 12 or 13 of the K-ras gene. All patients were analysed for mutant DNA in serum. Tumour-specific point mutations, corresponding to the K-ras mutations found in the primary tumour were detected in the serum of all patients but one. No mutant K-ras could be detected in the serum of seven patients without K-ras mutations in the primary tumour. These results may be useful in assessing tumour burden in patients with neoplastic disease. Moreover, consecutive testing of serum tumour DNA after surgery or chemotherapy may be used as a tumour marker for recurrent disease.
Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 12/1997; 57(7):601-4. · 1.38 Impact Factor
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Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde 04/1996; 140(9):510-1.
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Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde 04/1996; 140(10):572; author reply 573.
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ABSTRACT: Expression of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein survivin is up-regulated in many tumors of epithelial origin and frequently shows a relationship with disease prognosis.
We investigated survivin mRNA expression in 32 urothelial cell carcinomas by use of real-time quantitative PCR. Expression values were normalized to transcript levels of the housekeeping gene cyclophilin.
All bladder tumor tissues expressed survivin mRNA. The median normalized survivin mRNA expression values were 0.26 for superficial tumors (n = 17) and 0.78 for invasive tumors (n = 15). A significant relationship with increasing pathological stage (p < 0.001) and grade (p < 0.001) was observed. Although survivin mRNA expression did not relate to disease progression or the patient survival period, patients with superficial bladder tumors and normalized survivin values over 0.26 had an increased risk of recurrence (log-rank test: p = 0.018).
Our results suggest that quantitative measurement of survivin mRNA 1) can identify invasive and high-grade urothelial cell carcinomas and 2) may be used as an indicator for early recurrence of superficial tumors.
Anticancer research 23(4):3327-31. · 1.73 Impact Factor
