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BIOMEDICINES
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11010174
关键词
rectal cancer; beta-catenin; NACRT
This study aimed to investigate the association of Wnt/beta-catenin signal activation with a pathological response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. The results showed that activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin signal pathway represented by nuclear beta-catenin accumulation was significantly associated with a poor response to NACRT. Therefore, analysis of nuclear beta-catenin accumulation before starting treatment might help predict the therapeutic response to NACRT.
Although a therapeutic response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) is important to improve oncological outcomes after surgery in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer, there is no reliable predictor for this. The Wnt/beta-catenin signal is known to be crucial for the tumorigenesis of colorectal cancer. This study aimed to investigate the association of Wnt/beta-catenin signal activation with a pathological response to NACRT. The immunohistochemical expression of nuclear and membranous beta-catenin was analyzed in biopsy samples obtained from 60 patients with locally advanced rectal cancer who received curative surgery following NACRT. The association of Wnt/beta-catenin signal activation with their clinical outcomes was investigated. Notably, the body mass index of these patients was significantly higher in the low nuclear beta-catenin expression group. Moreover, patients in the high nuclear beta-catenin expression group tended to have more advanced disease and a higher rate of positive vascular invasion than those in the low expression group. Furthermore, the rate of good histological responses was significantly higher in the low nuclear beta-catenin expression group (72% vs. 37.1%, p < 0.01). Overall, relapse-free survival tended to be better in patients with low nuclear/high membranous beta-catenin expression (n = 9) than in other individuals (n = 51) (p = 0.093 and p = 0.214, respectively). Activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin signal pathway represented by nuclear beta-catenin accumulation was significantly associated with a poor response to NACRT in patients with rectal cancer. Analysis of nuclear beta-catenin accumulation before starting treatment might help predict the therapeutic response to NACRT.
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