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Prognostic Significance of BCL9 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
BACKGROUND: BCL9 enhances β-catenin-mediated transcriptional activity regardless of the mutational status of the Wnt signaling components and increases the cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and metastatic potential of tumor cells. The goal of this study was to elucidate the prognostic signifi...
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The Korean Society of Pathologists and The Korean Society for Cytopathology
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667372 http://dx.doi.org/10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2013.47.2.130 |
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author | Hyeon, Jiyeon Ahn, Soomin Lee, Jae Jun Song, Dae Hyun Park, Cheol-Keun |
author_facet | Hyeon, Jiyeon Ahn, Soomin Lee, Jae Jun Song, Dae Hyun Park, Cheol-Keun |
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description | BACKGROUND: BCL9 enhances β-catenin-mediated transcriptional activity regardless of the mutational status of the Wnt signaling components and increases the cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and metastatic potential of tumor cells. The goal of this study was to elucidate the prognostic significance of BCL9 protein expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. METHODS: We evaluated BCL9 protein expression by immunohistochemistry in tumor tissue from 288 primary HCC patients who underwent curative hepatectomy. The impact of BCL9 expression on the survival of the patients was analyzed. The median follow-up period was 97.1 months. RESULTS: Nuclear BCL9 protein expression was observed in 74 (25.7%) of the 288 HCCs. BCL9 expression was significantly associated with younger age (p=0.038), higher Edmondson grade (p=0.001), microvascular invasion (p=0.013), and intrahepatic metastasis (p=0.017). Based on univariate analyses, BCL9 expression showed an unfavorable influence on both disease-free survival (DFS, p=0.012) and disease-specific survival (DSS, p=0.032). Multivariate analyses revealed that higher Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage was an independent predictor of both shorter DFS (p<0.001) and shorter DSS (p<0.001). BCL9 expression tended to be an independent predictor of shorter DFS (p=0.078). CONCLUSIONS: BCL9 protein expression might be a marker of shorter DFS in HCC patients after curative hepatectomy. |
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spelling | pubmed-36471252013-05-10 Prognostic Significance of BCL9 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Hyeon, Jiyeon Ahn, Soomin Lee, Jae Jun Song, Dae Hyun Park, Cheol-Keun Korean J Pathol Original Article BACKGROUND: BCL9 enhances β-catenin-mediated transcriptional activity regardless of the mutational status of the Wnt signaling components and increases the cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and metastatic potential of tumor cells. The goal of this study was to elucidate the prognostic significance of BCL9 protein expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. METHODS: We evaluated BCL9 protein expression by immunohistochemistry in tumor tissue from 288 primary HCC patients who underwent curative hepatectomy. The impact of BCL9 expression on the survival of the patients was analyzed. The median follow-up period was 97.1 months. RESULTS: Nuclear BCL9 protein expression was observed in 74 (25.7%) of the 288 HCCs. BCL9 expression was significantly associated with younger age (p=0.038), higher Edmondson grade (p=0.001), microvascular invasion (p=0.013), and intrahepatic metastasis (p=0.017). Based on univariate analyses, BCL9 expression showed an unfavorable influence on both disease-free survival (DFS, p=0.012) and disease-specific survival (DSS, p=0.032). Multivariate analyses revealed that higher Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage was an independent predictor of both shorter DFS (p<0.001) and shorter DSS (p<0.001). BCL9 expression tended to be an independent predictor of shorter DFS (p=0.078). CONCLUSIONS: BCL9 protein expression might be a marker of shorter DFS in HCC patients after curative hepatectomy. The Korean Society of Pathologists and The Korean Society for Cytopathology 2013-04 2013-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3647125/ /pubmed/23667372 http://dx.doi.org/10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2013.47.2.130 Text en © 2013 The Korean Society of Pathologists/The Korean Society for Cytopathology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Hyeon, Jiyeon Ahn, Soomin Lee, Jae Jun Song, Dae Hyun Park, Cheol-Keun Prognostic Significance of BCL9 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title | Prognostic Significance of BCL9 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_full | Prognostic Significance of BCL9 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_fullStr | Prognostic Significance of BCL9 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_full_unstemmed | Prognostic Significance of BCL9 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_short | Prognostic Significance of BCL9 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_sort | prognostic significance of bcl9 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667372 http://dx.doi.org/10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2013.47.2.130 |
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