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Prognostic significance of loss of c-fos protein in gastric carcinoma
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Jin, Seon Pil Yang, Han-Kwang Lee, Hye Seung |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Abstractc-fos was first identified as a viral oncoprotein, and has been studied in terms of its oncogenic function in tumorigenesis. Many experimental and clinical data indicated that c-fos expression plays a role in the progression of several types of carcinomas. However, some recent studies challenge this view as they indicate that c-fos has tumor suppressor activity. In the present study, we assessed c-fos protein expression in 625 consecutive gastric cancers immunohistochemically, and analyzed its relationship with clinicopathologic factors and survival. We found that a loss of c-fos expression is correlated with a more advanced stage, lymph node metastasis, lymphatic invasion and shorter survival, indicating that c-fos expression in gastric cancer cells is lost during progression and that this loss is associated with a poor prognosis. The above findings suggest that loss of c-fos expression has tumor suppressor activity in gastric cancer and we suspect that this suppressor activity might be related to the pro-apoptotic function of c-fos. |
| Starting Page | 284 |
| Ending Page | 289 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/BF02940306 |
| PubMed reference number | 18158562 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://por.hu/2007/13/4/0284/0284a.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.webio.hu/por/2007/13/4/0284/0284a.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02940306 |
| Journal | Pathology & Oncology Research |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |