Journal
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 107, Issue 7, Pages 746-751Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23302
Keywords
MMP-12; gastric cancer; immunohistochemistry; prognosis
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81201927]
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Background and Objectives Matrix metalloproteinase-12 (MMP-12) plays an important role in invasion and metastasis of human solid tumor cells. This study aimed to investigate the association of MMP-12 with overall survival in human gastric cancer. Methods Gastric cancer and adjacent normal tissue specimens were collected from 165 patients who had not received neoadjuvant chemotherapy. MMP-12 expression was determined by immunohistochemical staining, and the results were analyzed statistically in relation to the overall survival of the patients. Results MMP-12 expression was increased in gastric cancer compared with that observed in normal tissues. Increased MMP-12 expression was associated with tumor invasion, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, and TNM stage. No correlations were detected between MMP-12 expression and age, sex, differentiation status, tumor site, or Lauren classification. Moreover, patients with MMP-12 positive gastric cancer tended to have worse overall survival compared with those patients without MMP-12 expression. Conclusions The study results showed that increased expression of MMP-12 was associated with tumor progression in gastric cancer. It also provided the first evidence for MMP-12 expression in gastric cancer as an independent prognostic factor. J. Surg. Oncol. 2013;107:746751. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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