| Correlation between Expression of C-erbB2 Oncoprotein and the Prognostic Factors in Endometrial Cancer. |
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Young Tae Kim, Hae Jeong Yoon, Dong Hyun Kim, Hak Cheon Lee, Sei Kwang Kim, Jae Wook Kim |
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Department of Obsterics and Gynecology, Yonsei University Colloge of Medicine, Seoul, korea. |
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| Abstract |
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The c-erbB-2 oncogene encodes a 185,00 dalton transmembrane glycoportein with tyrosine kinase activity, and the aberrant overexpression of which has been implicated in the indution of a malignat phenotype. Overexpression of the c-erbB-2 has been found in many human adenocarcinomas, especially mammarian and ovarian carcinomas, and that is associated with poor prognosis. We used an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) to explore the relationship between c-erbB-2 oncoprotein and prognostic factors of endmetrial cancer and analyzed the tissued form the 24patients with endometiral cancer and 10 control cases. patinens with endometrial cancer were found to bave 20% of c-erbB-2 oncoprotein overexpression rate and signficiantly higher c-erbB-2 median oncoprotein expression than conterolC-erbB-2 oncoprotein overexpression showed no statistically significant association with known prognostic factors including stage, grade, histologic cell type, myometrial invasion and lymph node metastases, although the c-erbB-2 oncoprotein overexpression rate was increased by stage, and was higher in lymph node metastatic group than in confined to the uterus goup. High c-erbB-2 oncoprotein overexpression was correlated with absence of estrogen receptor (Rs=-0.46, p=0.047) and progestreone receptor (Rs=-0.57, p=0.045), further studies are needed to determine the significance of the c-erbB-2 everexpression in endometrial cancer. |
| Key Words:
C-erbB-2 oncoprotein, Endometrial cancer, Prognostic factors |
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