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ArticleBritish journal of cancer2003

Association between RCAS1 expression and clinical outcome in uterine endometrial cancer.

K Sonoda, S Miyamoto, T Hirakawa, T Kaku, M Nakashima, T Watanabe, K Akazawa, T Fujita, H Nakano

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Article in British journal of cancer, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

K Sonoda1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
S Miyamoto
T Hirakawa
T Kaku
M Nakashima
T Watanabe
K Akazawa
T Fujita
H Nakano
Kyushu University · JPNiigata University · JPRMIT University · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RCAS1, which acts as a ligand for a putative receptor on immune cells such as peripheral lymphocytes and natural killer cells, is strongly expressed in human cancers. RCAS1 can induce these cells to undergo apoptotic cell death, which suggests that RCAS1 expression may prohibit the stromal reaction occurring in a tumour. To clarify the clinical significance of RCAS1 expression in uterine endometrial cancer, we analysed the association between RCAS1 expression and clinicopathologic variables by statistical methods. With the use of immunohistochemical techniques, we performed a retrospective study of RCAS1 expression in resected tumour tissue from 147 patients with uterine endometrial cancer. We evaluated the statistical correlation between RCAS1 expression and clinicopathologic variables. RCAS1 was expressed in 106 of 147 patients with uterine endometrial cancer; 30 of these 147 patients showed RCAS1 overexpression. Overexpression of RCAS1 was significantly correlated with age at surgery, stage, extent of myometrial invasion, and positive peritoneal cytologic results. Multivariate analysis revealed that RCAS1 expression and metastasis were clinically significant prognostic factors for the overall survival. These findings indicated that analysis for RCAS1 expression can provide crucial information about the clinical behaviour of uterine endometrial cancer, which may be valuable for the management of patients with this disease.

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Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm MetastasisAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAntigens, NeoplasmEndometrial NeoplasmsFemaleHumansMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisPrognosisSurvival AnalysisTreatment OutcomeAntigens, NeoplasmEBAG9 protein, human

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PMID12888828
PMCPMC2394364
OpenAlexW1983768773

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