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ArticleDisease markers2013

Increased RCAS1 expression is associated with advanced histopathological stage and poor prognosis in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma.

Constantinos Giaginis, Themistoclis Efkarpidis, Paraskevi Alexandrou, Efstratios Patsouris, Gregory Kouraklis, Stamatios Theocharis

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Article in Disease markers, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Genomic analyses identify 15 risk loci and revealProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  2. Clinicopathological features of gastric adenocarcinoma patients with metachronous distant metastasis.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2015
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Constantinos GiaginisFirst Department of Pathology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 75 M. Asias steet, Goudi, GR11527 Athens, Greece ; Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean, Myrina, Lemnos, Greece.
Themistoclis Efkarpidis
Paraskevi Alexandrou
Efstratios Patsouris
Gregory Kouraklis
Stamatios Theocharis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity of the Aegean · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe receptor-binding cancer antigen expressed on SiSo cells (RCAS1) is a human tumor-associated antigen that has been considered to play a crucial role in tumor progression by enabling cancer cells to evade immune surveillance. The present study aimed to evaluate the clinical significance of the RCAS1 expression in gastric adenocarcinoma. MATERIAL AND

methodsRCAS1 protein expression was assessed immunohistochemically on 54 gastric adenocarcinoma tissue samples and was analyzed in relation to clinicopathological parameters, tumor proliferative capacity, and patients' survival.

resultsEnhanced RCAS1 expression levels were significantly associated with advanced histopathological stage and presence of organ metastasis (P = 0.0084 and P = 0.0327). Gastric cancer patients with elevated RCAS1 expression levels showed significantly shorter survival times compared to those with low RCAS1 expression (log-rank test, P = 0.0168). In multivariate analysis, histopathological stage and grade of differentiation as well as the RCAS1 expression were identified as independent prognostic factors (Cox regression analysis, P = 0.0204, P = 0.0035, and P = 0.0081).

conclusionsOur data support the evidence that RCAS1 upregulation may contribute to gastric malignant progression, representing a useful biomarker to predict the biological behaviour and prognosis in gastric neoplasia.

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Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticAdenocarcinomaAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAntigens, NeoplasmBiomarkers, TumorFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingPrognosisRNA, MessengerStomach NeoplasmsAntigens, NeoplasmBiomarkers, TumorEBAG9 protein, humanRNA, Messenger

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PMCPMC3776369
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