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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 114, 期 4, 页码 427-434出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2016.5
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survivin; XIAP; medullary thyroid carcinoma; inhibitor of apoptosis protein; biomarker; apoptosis
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KR 3496/2-1]
Background: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) accounts for similar to 5% of all thyroid malignancies. To date, surgery is the first-line therapy with curative intention. However, for advanced MTC, conventional chemotherapeutic agents do not provide convincing results. Therefore, the identification of biomarkers that can be antagonised by small-molecule therapeutics may lead to novel encouraging treatment options. Methods: Seventy-nine patients with surgically resected and histologically confirmed MTC were included in this study. Tissue microarrays were constructed to assess the relationship between inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) survivin or XIAP expression levels and clinicopathological variables as well as overall survival. Results: High survivin or XIAP expression was associated with an advanced T-stage and metastatic disease. Whereas tissue expression levels of survivin correlated with serum calcitonin levels, XIAP was overexpressed in the subgroup of patients with sporadic MTC. Both IAPs were negatively associated with patient survival in the multivariate Cox regressions analysis (survivin: hazard ratio (HR) 1.62; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.21-2.16; P = 0.001; XIAP: HR 1.78; 95% CI: 1.16-2.72; P = 0.008). Conclusions: Survivin and XIAP demonstrate distinct expression patterns in MTCs, which are associated with advanced disease and poor prognosis. We thus provide first evidence that both IAPs might serve as viable targets in patients with MTC.
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