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ArticleCancers2022

Accurate Characterization of Bladder Cancer Cells with Intraoperative Flow Cytometry.

Athanasios Paliouras, Georgios S Markopoulos, Stavros Tsampalas, Stefania Mantziou, Ioannis Giannakis, Dimitrios Baltogiannis, Georgios K Glantzounis, George A Alexiou, Evangelia Lampri, Nikolaos Sofikitis and 1 more

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Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Athanasios PaliourasDepartment of Urology, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Georgios S MarkopoulosHaematology Laboratory, Unit of Molecular Biology and Translational Flow Cytometry, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7700-7003
Stavros TsampalasDepartment of Urology, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Stefania MantziouHaematology Laboratory, Unit of Molecular Biology and Translational Flow Cytometry, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Ioannis GiannakisDepartment of Urology, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Dimitrios BaltogiannisDepartment of Urology, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Georgios K GlantzounisHepato-Pancreatico-Biliary (HPB) Unit, Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Ioannina, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
George A AlexiouNeurosurgical Institute, University of Ioannina Faculty of Medicine, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Evangelia LampriDepartment of Pathology, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Nikolaos SofikitisDepartment of Urology, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
George VartholomatosHaematology Laboratory, Unit of Molecular Biology and Translational Flow Cytometry, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3884-4965
University Hospital of Ioannina · GRUniversity of Ioannina · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bladder cancer represents a major health issue. Transurethral resection is the first line treatment and an accurate assessment of tumor margins might warrant complete tumor removal. Genomic instability and proliferative potential are common hallmarks of cancer cells. We have previously demonstrated the utility of intraoperative flow cytometry (iFC), a next-generation margin evaluation methodology for assessment of DNA content, in the detection of several types of malignancy. In the current study we investigated the possible value of iFC in the characterization of bladder cancer during surgery. Samples from a population of 52 people with urothelial cancer were included in the study. The total time for iFC evaluation is 3-5 min per sample and included a two-step analysis, including DNA-index and Tumor-index calculation. First, DNA-index calculation revealed 24 hyperploid and one hypoploid tumor. Second, cell cycle analysis and Tumor-index calculation revealed that tumor samples are distinguished from normal cells based on their significantly higher proliferative potential. The standard for iFC evaluation was pathology assessment and revealed that our protocol exhibits an accuracy of 98% in defining the presence of cancer cells in a given sample. Our results support the further assessment of iFC value towards its use as a novel malignancy evaluation tool in transurethral resections.

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bladder cancercancerflow cytometrysurgical oncologysurgical treatment

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