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JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY
卷 6, 期 9, 页码 1460-1467出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e318229189d
关键词
Fibrous stroma; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Vascular invasion; Prognostic indicator; Squamous cell carcinoma
资金
- Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan [19-10]
Introduction: Cancer tissue is composed of various stromal cells forming cancer-specific microenvironments. Peritumoral stroma is reportedly composed of activated fibroblasts that can influence the biological properties of tumor cells, mainly their local aggressiveness and their ability. The aim of this study was to examine whether the histological properties of peritumoral stroma are correlated with squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) aggressiveness and clinical outcome. Methods: A series of 220 pathological stage I lung SqCC were categorized into two types according to the histological properties of the peritumoral stroma, fibrous stroma type (n = 85), and thin stroma type (n = 135), and compared the prognostic significance. Furthermore, we compared the immunohistochemical properties of the SqCC cells surrounded by fibrous stroma with those of the SqCC cells surrounded by thin stroma. Results: The prognosis of the patients with fibrous stroma-type tumors was significantly poorer than that of the thin stroma type with regard to both recurrence-free survival (p = 0.005) and overall survival (p = 0.008). A multivariate analysis showed that the presence of a fibrous stroma was an independent prognostic factor (p = 0.030). Compared with the SqCC cells with a thin stroma, the SqCC cells with a fibrous stroma exhibited reduced expression of E-cadherin (55.9 versus 126.0, p < 0.001) and an increased expression of laminin-5 gamma 2 (94.6 versus 25.0, p = 0.001), matrix metalloproteinase-7 (26.0 versus 3.50, p = 0.009), and c-Met (64.0 versus 36.5, p = 0.033). Conclusion: SqCC with a fibrous stroma displayed higher invasive phenotype and were associated with a significantly poor prognosis. The current results suggest that the microenvironment created by both SqCC cells and the peritumoral fibroblasts may facilitate cancer aggressiveness.
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