Polish Journal of Pathology

Abstract

1/2022 vol. 73
Original paper

Increased Glypican-3 immunostaining is associated with longer survival outcomes in colorectal carcinoma

  1. Department of Pathology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  2. Department of Pathology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  3. Department of Pathology, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  4. Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  5. Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  6. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Al Minia, Egypt
Pol J Pathol 2022; 74 (1): 14-20
Online publish date: 2022/06/28
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Glypicans (GPC) are involved in the developmental morphogenesis and regulatory processes of cell signalling. Abnormal expression has been observed in different cancer types.

One hundred and thirty-seven colorectal carcinoma (CRC) and 44 nodal metastases were used to create tissue microarrays. Immunohistochemistry was done to detect and evaluate the impact of immunostaining patterns of GPC-3 protein in CRC.

GPC-3 immunostaining is increased in CRC and nodal metastasis (p < 0.001) and was not association with clinicopathological parameters. GPC-3 immunostaining was associated with longer disease-free survival (p = 0.021) and overall survival (p = 0.05).

For the first time, we show GPC-3 immunostaining association with survival outcomes in CRC. GPC-3 may be used as an independent prognostic factor for survival in CRC.
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