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Differential Expression of Thymidylate Synthase in Colorectal Tumors and Matched Lymph Nodes: Impact on Adjuvant Treatment
- Source :
- The American Surgeon. 69:918-922
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2003.
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Abstract
- Although the expression of thymidylate synthase (TS) in metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) may be a better predictor of response to 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy than TS expression in primary CRC, this enzyme has not been well studied in tumor-draining regional lymph nodes. We retrospectively examined TS expression in 12 primary CRC lesions (pT3) and matched sentinel lymph nodes. Of the 8 primary tumors that were TS-positive, 50 per cent (4/8) had tumor-positive lymph nodes and 50 per cent (4/8) had tumor-negative nodes. Of the 4 primary tumors that were TS-negative, 75 per cent (3/4) had tumor-positive nodes and 25 per cent (1/4) had tumor-negative nodes [κ = -0.1386, 95 per cent confidence interval: (-0.4820, 0.2048), P = 0.4284]. Of the 8 TS-positive primaries, 25 per cent (2/8) had TS-positive nodes and 75 per cent (6/8) had TS-negative nodes. Of the 4 TS-negative primaries, 50 per cent (2/4) had TS-positive nodes and 50 per cent (2/4) had TS-negative nodes [κ = -0.0131, 95 per cent confidence interval: (-0.2958, 0.2696), P = 0.9274]. Two of the three TS-negative primaries that had metastasized to regional lymph nodes were associated with TS-positive lymph nodes. Our findings indicate that expression of TS by a primary CRC does not correlate with nodal metastases or nodal TS expression. Nodal expression of TS may be important in predicting response to 5-fluorouracil when a primary CRC is TS-negative.
- Subjects :
- General Medicine
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- ISSN :
- 15559823 and 00031348
- Volume :
- 69
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American Surgeon
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7a2035d1335cb0267920e0fda014ff39