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Erschienen in: Tumor Biology 12/2015

01.12.2015 | Research Article

Prognostic significance of the tumour-adjacent tissue in head and neck cancers

verfasst von: Martina Raudenska, Marketa Sztalmachova, Jaromir Gumulec, Michaela Fojtu, Hana Polanska, Jan Balvan, Marek Feith, Hana Binkova, Zuzana Horakova, Rom Kostrica, Rene Kizek, Michal Masarik

Erschienen in: Tumor Biology | Ausgabe 12/2015

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Abstract

Even with significant advances in operative skills and adjuvant therapies, the overall survival of patients suffering with head and neck squamous cancers (HNSCC) is unsatisfactory. Accordingly, no clinically useful prognostic biomarkers have been found yet for HNSCC. Many studies analysed the expression of potential markers in tumour tissues compared to adjacent tissues. Nevertheless, due to the sharing of the same microenvironment, adjacent tissues show molecular similarity to tumour tissues. Thus, gene expression patterns of 94 HNSCC tumorous tissues were compared with 31 adjacent tissues and with 10 tonsillectomy specimens of non-cancer individuals. The genes analysed at RNA level using quantitative RT-PCR and correlated with clinico-pathological conditions were as follows: EGF, EGFR, MKI67, BCL2, BAX, FOS, JUN, TP53, VEGF, FLT1, MMP2, MMP9, MT1A and MT2A. The elevated MT2A, BAX, EGF and JUN expression was associated with the influence of tumour cells on the rearrangement of healthy tissues, as well as a significant shift in the BAX/BCL2 ratio. Our investigation also indicated that adjacent tissues play an important role in cancerogenesis by releasing several tumour-supporting factors such as EGF. A gradual increase in the metallothionein expression, from the lowest one in tonsillectomy samples to the highest ones in tumour samples, suggests that MT expression might be tissue reaction to the presence of tumour cells. The results of this study confirmed the significance of metallothionein in tumori-genesis and gave evidences for its use as a potential HNSCC biomarker. Furthermore, this study highlighted the importance of histologically normal tumour-adjacent tissue in prediction of HNSCC progress.
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Metadaten
Titel
Prognostic significance of the tumour-adjacent tissue in head and neck cancers
verfasst von
Martina Raudenska
Marketa Sztalmachova
Jaromir Gumulec
Michaela Fojtu
Hana Polanska
Jan Balvan
Marek Feith
Hana Binkova
Zuzana Horakova
Rom Kostrica
Rene Kizek
Michal Masarik
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2015
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Tumor Biology / Ausgabe 12/2015
Print ISSN: 1010-4283
Elektronische ISSN: 1423-0380
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13277-015-3755-x

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