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Contemporary Oncology/Współczesna Onkologia
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Original paper

Evaluation of PTEN, PI3K, MTOR, and KRAS expression and their clinical and prognostic relevance to differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Berna B. Duman
,
Oğuz I. Kara
,
Aysum Uğuz
,
Berna T. Ates

Contemp Oncol (Pozn) 2014; 18 (4): 234–240
Online publish date: 2014/07/04
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Aim of the study: Important signalling pathways play fundamental roles in the pathogenesis of thyroid carci-

noma (TC). PTEN, mTOR, PI3K-p85 and K-Ras are the principal factors involved in these signalling pathways. To immuno­histochemically examine the expressions of PI3K, mTOR and PTEN in patients suffering from follicular TC, papillary TC or variants there­of, as well as to investigate KRAS mutations via PCR to determine their clinical and prognostic relevance to differentiated thyroid cancer.

Material and methods: The expression of PTEN, PI3K-p85 and mTOR was immunohistochemically examined, and the mutation of K-Ras was examined via PCR. The results obtained were compared to the clinico-pathologic characteristics of the patients.

Results: A significant correlation was found between p85 expression and lymphovascular invasions and between PTEN expression and multifocality (p = 0.048 and p = 0.04, respectively), and a correlation between p85 and capsular invasion was found, with a borderline statistical significance (p = 0.056). No expression of PTEN, p85 or Mtor was detected in normal tissue. K-Ras mutation was examined in 66 of the 101 patients (57.4%), and the percentage of patients exhibiting a K-Ras mutation was 17.4%. All of the patients exhibiting a K-Ras mutation were women (p = 0.047). The disease-free survival was 44.6 months (95% CI: 37.9–51.3) and was statistically significantly higher in the group that displayed level 1 or lower expression of p85 (p = 0.043).

Conclusions: The expression levels of the aforementioned markers were significantly higher in TC cells than in normal tissue. A significant correlation was detected between K-Ras mutation and gender. This study demonstrates that p85 and PTEN are markers that should be evaluated in further studies of TC.
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thyroid cancer, PTEN, mTOR, PI3K, K-Ras

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