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PANCREAS
卷 45, 期 4, 页码 593-600出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000000499
关键词
pancreatic cancer; microvessel density; hematogenous metastasis; cancer stroma
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports, and Technology of Japan [24592020]
- Pancreas Research Foundation of Japan
- Research Foundation of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24592020] Funding Source: KAKEN
Objectives Excessive stroma is a unique property of cancer tissue of the pancreas. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship of cancer stromal area (SA) and tumor microvessel density (MVD) with prognostic and clinicopathological findings. Methods Pancreatic adenocarcinoma tissues obtained from 104 patients were subjected to cytokeratin 19 and CD31 double immunostaining to identify cancer cells and endothelial cells simultaneously. Stromal area and MVD were assessed in the same sections. Patients were divided into 2 groups for each analysis by the median value of the respective measure. Results Stromal area negatively correlated with MVD. The low SA group harbored more poorly differentiated carcinoma than the high SA group. Patients of the low SA group showed a higher incidence of hematogenous recurrence. As a consequence, patients in the low SA and the high MVD groups had poorer prognosis in terms of both disease-free survival and overall survival than their respective groups. Multivariate analysis showed that a low SA was an independent prognostic factor for disease-free and overall survival. Conclusions Our data indicate that the stroma of pancreatic cancer may play an auxiliary role as a barrier to cancer cell invasion. The depletion of tumor stroma alone does not suppress pancreatic cancer progression.
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