High frequency of tumor cells with nuclear Egr-1 protein expression in human bladder cancer is associated with disease progression
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BACKGROUND: Egr-1 (early growth response-1 transcription factor) has been proposed to be involved in invasion and metastasis processes of human bladder cancer, but Egr-1 protein expression levels in human bladder cancer have not been investigated. In the present study we investigated the expression levels of Egr-1 protein in early stages of human bladder cancer and correlated it to later progression. METHODS: Expression of Egr-1 protein in human bladder cancer was examined by immunohistochemistry, on a tissue microarray constructed from tumors from 289 patients with non-muscle invasive urothelial bladder cancer. RESULTS: The frequency of tumor cells with nuclear Egr-1 immunolabelling correlated to bladder cancer stage, grade and to later progression to muscle-invasive bladder cancer (T2-4). Stage T1 tumors exhibited significantly higher frequencies of tumor cells with nuclear Egr-1 immunolabelling than Ta tumors (P = 0.001). Furthermore, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that a high frequency of tumor cells with nuclear Egr-1 immunolabelling was significantly associated with a higher risk of progression to stage T2-4 (log-rank test, P = 0.035). Tumor cells with nuclear Egr-1 immunolabelling were found to localize at the tumor front in some of the tumor biopsies. CONCLUSION: The results from this study support a potential involvement of Egr-1 in the progression from non-muscle invasive bladder cancers to muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Original language | English |
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Journal | BMC Cancer |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 385 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISSN | 1471-2407 |
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Publication status | Published - 2009 |
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Keywords: Disease Progression; Early Growth Response Protein 1; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; Humans; Male; Neoplasm Staging; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms
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