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Value of metastin receptor immunohistochemistry in predicting metastasis after radical nephrectomy for pT1 clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
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Clinical & experimental metastasis [Clin Exp Metastasis] 2013 Jun; Vol. 30 (5), pp. 607-14. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Jan 01. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- KISS-1 is a metastasis-suppressor gene of human melanoma, and encodes metastin, which was identified as the ligand of a G-protein-coupled receptor (metastin receptor). The precursor protein is cleaved to 54 amino acids, which may be further truncated into carboxy-terminal fragments. Previous studies showed that lack of metastin receptor in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is associated with tumor progression, but the prediction of metastasis in patients with pT1 clear cell RCC after radical nephrectomy is difficult. The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of metastin receptor immunohistochemistry in predicting metastasis after nephrectomy for pT1 clear cell RCC. After verification of the correlation between immunostaining and mRNA expression, we evaluated the clinical value of metastin receptor immunohistochemistry. Fifty-four patients were enrolled in this study; following radical nephrectomy, seven patients were found to have lung metastasis. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value with negative immunostaining of metastin receptor were 85.7, 97.6, 46.2, and 97.6 %, respectively. Metastasis-free survival rates were significantly higher in patients with positive staining (97.6 %) than in patients with negative staining (53.8 %) (P < 0.001). In univariate analysis for metastasis-free survival, negative immunostaining of metastin receptor was a significant risk factor for metastasis (P = 0.001). Furthermore, negative immunostaining of metastin receptor was an independent predictor for metastasis in multivariate analysis (hazard ratio, 3.735; 95 % CI 0.629-22.174; P = 0.002). In conclusion, our study suggests that negative expression of metastin receptor in clear cell RCC is significantly related to metastasis.
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- Adult
Aged
Carcinoma, Renal Cell metabolism
Carcinoma, Renal Cell surgery
Female
Humans
Immunohistochemistry
Kidney Neoplasms metabolism
Kidney Neoplasms surgery
Male
Middle Aged
Receptors, Kisspeptin-1
Biomarkers, Tumor metabolism
Carcinoma, Renal Cell pathology
Kidney Neoplasms pathology
Nephrectomy methods
Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled metabolism
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1573-7276
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Clinical & experimental metastasis
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 23277422
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10585-012-9564-3