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Prognostic value of genomic alterations in invasive cervical squamous cell carcinoma of clinical stage IB detected by comparative genomic hybridization

Dellas, Athanassios and Torhorst, J. and Jiang, F. and Proffitt, J. and Schultheiss, E. and Holzgreve, W. and Sauter, G. and Mihatsch, M. J. and Moch, Holger. (1999) Prognostic value of genomic alterations in invasive cervical squamous cell carcinoma of clinical stage IB detected by comparative genomic hybridization. Cancer research, 59 (14). pp. 3475-3479.

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Abstract

The clinical behavior of invasive cervical carcinoma of clinical stage IB varies considerably in tumors presenting without regional lymph node metastases. The early identification of patients at higher risk for poor outcome may prove useful because these patients would benefit from aggressive adjuvant treatments. In this study, comparative genomic hybridization was applied to evaluate whether genomic aberrations have prognostic significance in cervical carcinoma. Genomic alterations were evaluated in 62 cervical carcinomas of clinical stage IB. DNA sequence losses were most prevalent at chromosomes 4q (53%), 3p (52%), 13q (45%), 4p (44%), Xq (44%), 5q (40%), 18q (37%), and 6q (35%). Several genomic alterations were associated with poor clinical outcome or metastasis. The total number of DNA aberrations/tumor (P > 0.02) and the number of DNA sequence losses/tumor (P > 0.04) were associated with disease-specific survival. 9p deletions were significantly more frequent in carcinomas with lymph node metastasis than in node-negative tumors (P > 0.03). Losses of chromosome 11p (P > 0.0001) and 18q (P > 0.01) were associated with poor prognosis in cervical carcinomas without lymph node metastasis. These data suggest that inactivation of tumor suppressor genes on chromosomes 9p, 11p, and 18q may play a role in the progression of cervical carcinoma.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine
03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Spezialfächer (Klinik) > Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Spezialfächer (Klinik) > Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe
UniBasel Contributors:Dellas, Athanassios
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:American Association for Cancer Research
ISSN:0008-5472
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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