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Prognostic Significance of Survivin and Caspase-3 Immunohistochemical Expression in Patients with Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Treated with Rituximab and CHOP
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Mitrović, Zdravko Ilić, Ivana Aurer, Igor Kinda, Sandra Bašić Radman, Ivo Dotlić, Snježana Ajduković, Radmila Labar, Boris |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Survivin is an inhibitor of apoptosis whose expression may be associated with inferior outcome in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated without rituximab. Caspase-3 is the final caspase of the apoptotic cascade and its pattern of expression may also be related to patients' outcome. In this study we investigated immunohistochemical expression of survivin and caspase-3 (CPP32) in 57 patients with DLBCL treated with rituximab and CHOP (R-CHOP). According to previously published criteria, we separately analyzed correlation of different types of survivin expression with patients' outcome. Nuclear survivin was expressed in only 26% of cases, cytoplasmic survivin was expressed in 81% of cases while application of immunoreactivity scoring system yielded 58% of survivin positive cases. Caspase-3 was expressed in 77% of cases. There were no significant correlations between any type of survivin expression and response to treatment or survival of the patients. The expression of caspase-3 was also not associated with patients' outcome. We conclude that survivin and caspase-3 have no significant prognostic significance in patients with DLBCL treated with R-CHOP. |
| Starting Page | 243 |
| Ending Page | 247 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12253-010-9304-4 |
| PubMed reference number | 20853074 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/538015.survivin_i_kaspaza.pdf |
| Journal | Pathology & Oncology Research |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |