| Association of Carbonic Anhydrase IX Expression on the Prognosis and Therapeutic Response in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. |
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Hyoung Jong Kim, Chae Han Jeon, Wonho Jung, Ji Yong Ha, Byung Hoon Kim, Chun Il Kim, Mi Sun Choe, Hye Ra Jung, Choal Hee Park |
1Department of Urology, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea. chp@dsmc.or.kr
2Department of Pathology, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea. |
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Recent studies of Carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) expression and clinical significance in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have given rise to disagreements in the usefulness of CAIX as a prognostic factor. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between CAIX expression and clinical factors in RCC. The medical record of 172 RCC patients in hospital (from January 1999 and December 2007) were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were divided into a high expression group (109 cases) and low expression group (63 cases) according to their degree of CAIX expression. We evaluated the association between CAIX expression and age, body mass index (BMI), type of renal neoplasm, tumor stage, nuclear grade, metastasis after surgery and tumor-specific survival rate. The mean age of the high expression group and the low expression group were 56 years and 54 years respectively. The mean BMI of the high expression group and the low expression group were 24.2 kg/m2 and 24.5 kg/m2 respectively. Comparing the difference between clear cell RCC and non clear cell RCC, CAIX was significantly more expressed in clear cell RCC. There was no significant differences between high expression clear cell RCC and low expression clear cell RCC according to age, BMI, nuclear grade, metastasis after surgery and tumor-specific survival rate (p=0.237, p=0.802, p=0.382, p=0.551). However, in clear cell RCC, CAIX expression was significantly more expressed in patients with higher T or N stages (p=0.015, p=0.033). CAIX was significantly higher expressed in clear cell RCC and was significantly lower expressed in patients with higher T stage or N stage. |
| Key Words:
Carbonic anhydrase IX, Clear cell renal cell carcinoma, Prognosis |
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