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APPLIED IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR MORPHOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 31-37Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.pai.0000201808.35931.78
Keywords
survivin; non-small-cell lung carcinoma; apoptosis; proliferation
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The role of survivin that regulates the biological behavior of non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is still controversial. We aimed to investigate survivin expression in NSCLC and to define any correlation with expressions of p53, bcl-2, bax, apoptotic index (AI), tumor cell proliferation, clinicopathologic variables, and overall survival. Tumors of 63 patients with NSCLC were examined for expressions Of survivin, p53, bcl-2, bax, and Ki-67 by immunohistochemistry. Al was also evaluated. Results for each antibody were correlated with each other, and with clinicopathologic variables including age, sex, histologic subtype, TNM (T: primary tumor, N: regional lymph node metastasis, M: distant metastasis) stage, lymph node status, smoking history, and prognosis. Nuclear survivin expression was inversely correlated with p53 expression (P 0.04, r = 0.367), and tumor stage (P = 0.03, r = - 0.273), and positively correlated with tumor cell proliferation (P = 0.009, r - 0.329). Cytoplasmic survivin expression positively correlated with smoking history (P = 0.02, r = 0.282). survivin/bax ratio was inversely correlated with Al (r: - 0.004). By Kaplan-Meier analysis, TNM stage (P <= 0.001), lymph node metastasis (P = 0.04), and Ki-67 index (P <= 0.001) were associated with Survival, whereas survivin was not. In multivariate analysis, only TNM stage was an independent predictor. Although survivin and other apoptosis-related protein expressions fail to predict the clinical outcome, the present findings suggest that survivin is involved in tumor cell apoptosis and proliferation and may play a role in critical steps of cancer progression in NSCLC.
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