Journal
LUNG CANCER
Volume 67, Issue 3, Pages 282-289Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2009.04.014
Keywords
Micropapillary component; Lung cancer Adenocarcinoma; Papillary component; Tissue microarray; Immunohistochemistry
Categories
Funding
- Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare [20-5]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Lung adenocarcinoma with a micropapillary component (MPC) is an aggressive subtype of adenocarcinoma with a papillary component The aim of this study was to explore the pathobiological properties of a papillary component which generates MPC We reviewed the 445 cases of resected primary lung adenocarcinoma and confirmed all of the MPC(+) cases (n=150) were found only in the cases of adenocarcinoma with a papillary component (n = 228) and no features of the MPC were detected in any of the other histological subtypes without papillary component. Even in the cases of adenocarcinoma with a papillary component. the MPC(+) group (n = 150) had significantly poorer outcome than the MPC(-) group (n = 78) (P<0.0001) When this MPC(+) cases were divided into grade 0-2 according to the proportion of the tumor occupied by the MPC, the stage I patients with grade 2 MPC had a significantly poorer outcome than the stage I patients with grade 0 or grade 1 MPC By considering the histological characteristics that MPC has always structural continuity with papillary component, we evaluated the pathobiological profile of (1) MPC, (2) papillary component which generate MPC [PC MPC(+)], and (3) papillary component without MPC [PC MPC(-)] The mean width of the stalks in the PC MPC(+) was significantly smaller than in the PC MPC(-) (1764 +/- 953 vs 26 07 +/- 10 16 mu m, P<0 001) Although staining for CD34 and collagen IV showed that MPC lacked both fibrovascular stalks and basement membranes, staining for cleaved caspase 3 showed that apoptotic cells were rare in the MPC (10%), and the expression levels of the adhesion molecules E-cadherin, beta-catenin, and CD44 were similar in all three lesions The immunohistochemical staining scores of hypoxic marker GLUT-1 in the MPC, PC MPC(+), and PC MPC(-) were 69, 26, and 8.6, respectively, and the differences between the MPC and PC MPC(+) and between the PC MPC(+) and PC MPC(-) were significant (P= 0 001 and 0025, respectively) These results indicated that the biological behavior of the papillary component which generates MPC is different from the papillary component without MPC in terms of structural alternation and hypoxic state, and the difference may be related to the aggressive behavior of MPC(+) adenocarcinoma (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd All rights reserved
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available