p53 Accumulation Is a Prognostic Factor in Intestinal-Type Gastric Carcinoma but Not in the Diffuse Type |
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Authors: | Franco Roviello MD Daniele Marrelli MD PhD Carla Vindigni MD Alfonso De Stefano MD Donatella Spina MD Enrico Pinto MD |
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Affiliation: | (1) Second Department of Surgery, Istituto di Scienze Chirurgiche, University of Siena, Via De Gasperi, 5, 53100 Siena, Italy;(2) Second Department of Surgery, Institute of Pathology, University of Siena, Via De Gasperi, 5, 53100 Siena, Italy |
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Abstract: | Background: The prognostic value of p53 nuclear accumulation in gastric cancer is still unclear, as shown by the discordant results still reported in the literature. In this study, we evaluated the correlation between p53 accumulation and long-term survival of patients resected for intestinal and diffuse-type gastric cancer.Methods: Eighty-three patients with carcinoma of the intestinal type and 53 patients with carcinoma of the diffuse type were included in the study. Immunohistochemical staining of the paraffin sections was performed by using monoclonal antibody DO1; cases were considered positive when nuclear immunostaining was observed in 10% or more of the tumor cells. Prognostic significance of different variables was investigated by univariate and multivariate analysis.Results: p53 positivity was found in 51.8% of intestinal-type and 50.9% of diffuse-type cases. No significant correlation between the rate of p53 overexpression and age, sex, tumor location, tumor size, depth of invasion, lymph node involvement, distant metastases, and surgical radicality was found in the two groups of patients. A statistically significant difference in survival rate was observed between p53-negative and p53-positive cases in the intestinal type (P < .05), confirmed by multivariate analysis (P < .005; relative risk = 3.09). On the contrary, no correlation with survival was found in diffuse-type cases according to p53 overexpression.Conclusions: These results suggest that the immunohistochemical detection of p53 accumulation is a useful indicator of poor prognosis in the intestinal but not in the diffuse type of gastric cancer, and are indicative of distinct molecular pathways and pattern of progression in the two histotypes. |
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Keywords: | Gastric cancer Intestinal/diffuse histotype P53 Immunohistochemistry Prognostic factors Multivariate analysis |
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