Journal
DIAGNOSTICS
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11030418
Keywords
papillary thyroid carcinoma; miR-146; miR-21; miR-221; miR-222; miR-181b; clinicopathologic features; overall survival
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- Lithuanian Research Council [SEN-14/2015]
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Expressions of miR-21, miR-221, miR-222, and miR-181b are associated with clinicopathological parameters and high expression levels are related to adverse outcomes. Gender and age are identified as independent prognostic factors for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma.
We analyzed miR-146b, miR-21, miR-221, miR-21, and miR-181b in formalin fixed paraffin-embedded papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) tissue samples of 312 individuals and evaluated their expression relationship with clinicopathological parameters. A higher expression of miR-21 was related to unifocal lesions (p < 0.011) and autoimmune thyroiditis (0.007). miR-221, miR-222 expression was higher in the PTC tissue samples with extrathyroidal extension (p = 0.049, 0.003, respectively). In a group of PTC patients with pT1a and pT1b sized tumors, the expression of miR-146b, miR-21, miR-221, and miR-222 in PTC tissue samples was lower than in patients with pT2, pT3, and pT4 (p = 0.032; 0.0044; 0.003; 0.001; 0.001, respectively). Patients with lymph node metastases had higher expression of miR-21, -221, -222, and -181b (p < 0.05). A high expression of miR-146b, miR-21, miR-221 panel was associated with decreased overall survival (OS) (Log rank p = 0.019). Univariate analysis revealed that presence of metastatic lymph nodes and high expression of miR-146b, miR-21, and miR-221 panels were associated with increased hazard of shorter OS. After multivariate analysis, only sex (male) and age (>= 55 years) emerged as independent prognostic factors associated with shorter OS (HR 0.28 (95% CI 0.09-0.86) and HR 0.05 (95% CI 0.01-0.22), respectively). In conclusion, 5 analyzed miRs expression have significant relations to clinicopathologic parameters so further investigations of these molecules are expedient while searching for prognostic PTC biomarkers.
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