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| Author(s): |
Schultz, Luciana
[1]
;
Spagnul, Samuel J. T.
[1]
;
Damm, Gilcy R.
[1]
;
da Cunha, Isabela W.
[1]
;
Bezerra, Stephania M.
[2]
;
da Costa, Walter H.
[1]
;
Guimaraes, Gustavo C.
[1, 3]
;
Zequi, Stenio deC
[1, 3]
;
Soares, Fernando A.
Total Authors: 9
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| Affiliation: | [1] AC Camargo Canc Ctr, Div Urol, Rua Prof Antonio Prudente 211, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Soares, Fernando A., Antonio Prudente Fdn, Sao Paulo, Brazil. da Cunha, Isabela W., AC Camargo Canc Ctr, Div Urol, Rua Prof Antonio Prudente 211, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Soares, Fernando A., AC Camargo Canc Ctr, Dept Pathol, Sao Paulo, Brazil. da Costa, Walter H., Soares, Fernando A., Antonio Prudente Fdn, Sao Paulo, Brazil. da Cunha, Isabela W., AC Camargo Canc Ctr, Div Urol, Rua Prof Antonio Prudente 211, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 3
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY-SEMINARS AND ORIGINAL INVESTIGATIONS; v. 34, n. 11 NOV 2016. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
Objective: Ulceration is common in bladder tumors, but its prognostic role, although intuitive, is not established. We aim to explore the presence of gross ulceration and its relationship with other morphological and biological features classically associated with extravesical disease, in patients submitted to radical cystectomy. Methods: Tumor size and morphology were noted on 101 cystectomy patients (2000-2010). Papillary, exophytic, and vegetant tumors were grouped as ``papillary{''} and solid/nodular, ulcerated and infiltrative as ``nonpapillary.{''} Ulceration was noted grossly in every case as a binary parameter, regardless of morphology. Immunohistochemistry was performed for hypoxia (hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha and vascular endothelial growth factor), and cell cycle proteins (pRb, p53, and cyclin D1). Results: Mean age was 66.7 year, male:female ratio was 2:1, 20 patients received bacillus Calmette-Guerin and 10 neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Upstaging rate was 56.4%. Ulcerated lesions presented mostly as nonpapillary and nonorgan confined (nOC), whereas nonulcerated tumors were often papillary and organ confined (OC). Tumor size was smaller in nonpapillary tumors (P = 0.002), but did not associate with altered hypoxia or cell cycle expressions. pRb and cyclin Dl loss and p53 overexpression were more frequent in ulcerated and non-OC tumors as did the phenotype vascular endothelial growth factor-negative/hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha-low (P < 0.001). On a multivariate model, ulceration was an independent predictor of non-OC and extravesical disease. Conclusion: Patients with ulcerated tumors were often staged with extravesical disease, independent of other morphologic and biological features known to affect prognosis. Prospective studies are needed to confirm the predictive value of tumor ulceration at cystoscopy, which could improve patient stratification for neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Graphical abstract: Interactions between clinical and biological parameters of known prognostic relevance in bladder cancer, and its relationship with tumor ulceration. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/18476-6 - Protein, mRNA and miRNAs profiling in urothelial bladder carcinoma |
| Grantee: | Fernando Augusto Soares |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |