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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 683-688Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2011.1078
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cervical squamous cell carcinoma; prognosis; DNA-methylation; APC1A; p16
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- Lions cancerfond
- Nyckelfonden
- Orebro lans landsting
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Hypermethylation of the O-6-MGMT, p14(ARF), p16(INK4a), RASSFIA and APC1A genes are unfavourable prognostic markers in colorectal cancer (CRC). We hypothesized that they could be related to prognosis also in cervical cancer. Methylation was studied in DNA extracts from surgical specimens of cancer tissue by novel pyrosequencing methods. In 109 patients (90 squamous cell carcinomas, 19 adenocarcinomas), we found that hypermethylation of the APC1A gene promoter occurred in 8.3% of patients, and of p16(INK4a) in 1.8%. APC1A hypermethylation was significantly related to more advanced FIGO stage of the tumor (P=0.013), larger tumor diameter (P=0.049) and distant recurrence-free survival (P=0.0007), but not with locoregional recurrence rate, age, HPV status, DNA ploidy, tumor grade or malignancy grading score. We conclude that methylation of the APC1A promoter in cervical cancer, as diagnosed by pyrosequencing, is significantly related to major biological characteristics of the tumor, and may be a new predictor of poor prognosis in cervical cancer.
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