LncRNA CCAT1 as the unfavorable prognostic biomarker for cholangiocarcinoma.

Objective: To investigate the expression of long noncoding RNA CCAT1 in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) and to assess the CCAT1 expression as a prognostic biomarker for CCA.
Patients and Methods: The CCAT1 expression in tumor tissues and paired adjacent normal tissues from 91 CCA patients was detected by quantitative real-time PCR. The association of the CCAT1 expression with clinicopathological features of CCA patients and the prognostic value of the CCAT1 expression for overall survival was also evaluated by Kaplan-Meier, Cox regression model and ROC analysis.
Results: The CCAT1 expression was significantly upregulated in CCA tumor tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues. The CCAT1 expression was obviously associated with histological differentiation, lymph node invasion, and TNM stage. The overall survival of CCA patients with high CCAT1 expression was worse. Furthermore, the CCAT1 expression could be considered as an independent prognostic factor in predicting the overall survival for CCA patients.
Conclusions: Our study showed that lncRNA CCAT1, which was upregulated and associated with aggressive malignant behavior, may serve as a novel prognostic biomarker and potential therapeutic target for cholangiocarcinoma.