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ArticleProstate cancer and prostatic diseases2010

Overexpression of C-MYC oncogene in prostate cancer predicts biochemical recurrence.

D Hawksworth, L Ravindranath, Y Chen, B Furusato, I A Sesterhenn, D G McLeod, S Srivastava, G Petrovics

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Article in Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

87 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 161 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. MYC Overexpression at the Protein and mRNA Level and Cancer Outcomes among Men Treated with Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

D HawksworthDepartment of Surgery, Urology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
L Ravindranath
Y Chen
B Furusato
I A Sesterhenn
D G McLeod
S Srivastava
G Petrovics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · USArmed Forces Institute of Pathology · US

Funding

Cell Specific Expression Signatures in Prostate CancerR01DK065977 · NIDDK · HENRY M. JACKSON FDN FOR THE ADV MIL/MED · PI SRIVASTAVA, SHIV · 2004 to 2007
$688k
NIDDK NIH HHS 5R01 DK065977
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alterations of chromosome 8, including amplification at 8q24 harboring the C-MYC oncogene, have been noted as one of the most common chromosomal abnormalities in prostate cancer (CaP) progression. However, the frequency of C-MYC alterations in CaP has remained uncertain. A recent study, using a new anti-MYC antibody, described prevalent upregulation of nuclear C-MYC protein expression as an early oncogenic alteration in CaP. Further, we have recently reported regulation of C-MYC expression by ERG and a significant correlation between C-MYC overexpression and TMPRSS2-ERG fusion in early stage CaP. These emerging data suggest that increased C-MYC expression may be a critical and early oncogenic event driving CaP progression. In this study, we assessed whether C-MYC mRNA overexpression in primary prostate tumors was predictive of more aggressive tumor or disease progression. Our approach was to quantitatively determine C-MYC mRNA expression levels in laser capture micro-dissected tumor cells and matched benign epithelial cells in a radical prostatectomy cohort with long follow-up data available. On the basis of our results, we conclude that elevated C-MYC expression in primary prostate tumor is biologically relevant and may be a predictor of future biochemical recurrence.

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Genes, mycAdenocarcinomaBiomarkers, TumorGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMaleOncogenesPrognosisProstatic NeoplasmsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycRecurrenceRNA, MessengerSurvival AnalysisUp-RegulationBiomarkers, TumorMYC protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycRNA, Messenger

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PMID20820186
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