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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 105, Issue 7, Pages 989-995Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.346
Keywords
ovarian cancer; CIP2A; survival; prognosis; grade
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- Academy of Finland [114899, 1121413]
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
- Finska Lakaresallskapet
- Finnish Cancer Society
- Foundation for the Finnish Cancer Institute
- Helsinki University Central Hospital
- Kurt och Doris Palander Foundation
- Medicinska understodsforeningen Liv och Halsa
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- Waldemar von Frenckell Foundation
- Weikko Wilhelm Peltonen Foundation
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BACKGROUND: Cancerous inhibitor of protein phosphatase 2A (CIP2A) is an oncoprotein expressed in several solid cancers. Our purpose was to study its role in serous ovarian cancer patients, and the association to clinicopathological variables and molecular markers. METHODS: We collected retrospectively 562 consecutive serous ovarian cancer patients treated at the Helsinki University Central Hospital. We stained tumour tissue microarrays for CIP2A by immunohistochemistry and constructed survival curves according to the Kaplan-Meier method. Associations to clinicopathological and molecular markers were assessed by the chi(2)-test. RESULTS: We found strong cytoplasmic CIP2A immunoreactivity in 212 (40.4%) specimens, weak positivity in 222 (42.4%) specimens, and negative in 90 (17.2%). Immunopositive CIP2A expression was associated with high grade (P<0.0001), advanced stage (P = 0.0005), and aneuploidy (P = 0.001, chi(2)-test). Cancerous inhibitor of protein phosphatase 2A overexpression was also associated with EGFR protein expression (P = 0.006) and EGFR amplification (P = 0.043). Strong cytoplasmic CIP2A immunopositivity predicted poor outcome in ovarian cancer patients (P<0.0001, log-rank test). CONCLUSION: Our results show that CIP2A associates with reduced survival and parameters associated with high grade in ovarian cancer patients, and may thus be one of the factors that identify aggressive subtype (type II) of this disease. British Journal of Cancer (2011) 105, 989-995. doi:10.1038/bjc.2011.346 www.bjcancer.com Published online 6 September 2011 (C) 2011 Cancer Research UK
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