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Title
Deoxycitidine kinase is associated with prolonged survival after adjuvant gemcitabine for resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Gemcitabine (2′,2′-difluorodeoxycytidine) administration after resection of pancreatic cancer improves both disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS). Deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) mediates the rate-limiting catabolic step in the activation of gemcitabine. The authors of this report studied patient outcomes according to the expression of dCK after a postoperative gemcitabine-based chemoradiation regimen. METHODS: Forty-five patients with resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma received adjuvant gemcitabine based-therapy in the context of multicenter phase 2 studies. Their tumors were evaluated retrospectively for dCK protein expression by immunohistochemistry. A composite score based on the percentage of dCK-positive cancer cells and the intensity of staining was generated, and the results were dichotomized at the median values. RESULTS: The median follow-up was 19.95 months (95% confident interval [CI], 3.3-107.4 months). The lymph node (LN) ratio and dCK protein expression were significant predictors of DFS and OS in univariate analysis. On multivariate analysis, dCK protein expression was the only independent prognostic variable (DFS: hazard ratio [HR], 3.48; 95% CI, 1.66-7.31; P = .001; OS: HR, 3.2; 95% CI,1.44-7.13; P = .004). CONCLUSIONS: dCK protein expression was identified as an independent and strong prognostic factor in patients with resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma who received adjuvant gemcitabine therapy. The authors concluded that it deserves prospective evaluation as a predictive biomarker for patient selection.
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English
Source (journal)
Cancer: interdisciplinary international journal of the American Cancer Society. - Philadelphia, Pa.
Publication
Philadelphia, Pa. : 2010
ISSN
0008-543X [print]
1097-0142 [online]
DOI
10.1002/CNCR.25303
Volume/pages
116 :22 (2010) , p. 5200-5206
ISI
000284047400011
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