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ArticleCells2022

Evaluation of Tissue Expression of Vaspin and Serum Vaspin Concentration as a Prognostic and Risk Factor in Endometrial Cancer.

Mateusz Kozłowski, Dominika Pietrzyk, Małgorzata Rychlicka, Katarzyna Piotrowska, Katarzyna Nowak, Sebastian Kwiatkowski, Aneta Cymbaluk-Płoska

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Article in Cells, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Potential prognostic biomarker SERPINA12: implications for hepatocellular carcinoma.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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  2. Breast cancer shares many epidemiological, lifestyle, and local hormonal and metabolic underpinnings with endometrial and ovarian cancer: a narrative review.Translational breast cancer research : a journal focusing on translational research in breast cancer · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mateusz KozłowskiDepartment of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1176-2153
Dominika PietrzykDepartment of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-8114-3622
Małgorzata RychlickaDepartment of Nursing, Pomeranian Medical University, 71-210 Szczecin, Poland.
Katarzyna PiotrowskaDepartment of Physiology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-4472-0830
Katarzyna NowakDepartment of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-3133-2123
Sebastian KwiatkowskiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1504-3639
Aneta Cymbaluk-PłoskaDepartment of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.
Pomeranian Medical University · PL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adipose tissue is a multifunctional endocrine organ. One of the biologically active substances is vaspin, which is part of the serpin family. The purpose of the following study is to determine the possibility of using vaspin as a prognostic and risk factor in endometrial cancer. The study included 127 patients with abnormal uterine bleeding. To determine the value of adipokine, the study used Kaplan-Meier curves to estimate patients survival. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed simultaneously using the Cox regression model. Tissue expression of vaspin was assessed in patients from the study group (endometrial cancer) and the control group (non-cancerous). We found that higher levels of vaspin are found in obese people, with lower staging (FIGO I and II), lower grading (G1), no LVSI metastases and no lymph node metastases. Higher serum vaspin levels are an independent protective factor for endometrial cancer. We concluded that endometrial cancer patients with serum vaspin concentrations above the median have longer DFS compared to patients with concentrations below the median. Considering multivariate analysis, vaspin concentrations above the median are independent favourable prognostic factors for endometrial cancer. Tissue expression of vaspin cannot be a histological marker to distinguish between cancer and non-cancerous lesions and between different grading levels.

Indexed as

Adipose TissueEndometrial NeoplasmsSerpinsAdipokinesFemaleHumansPrognosisRisk FactorsAdipokinesSERPINA12 protein, humanSerpinsendometrial cancerprognostic factorrisk factorvaspin

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PMID36291064
PMCPMC9600625
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