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ErbB2 and NF?B Overexpression as Predictors of Chemoradiation Resistance and Putative Targets to Overcome Resistance in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
Published:
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Author:
Fumitaka Koga et al.
by Fumitaka Koga, Soichiro Yoshida, Manabu Tatokoro, Satoru Kawakami, Yasuhisa Fujii, Jiro Kumagai, Len Neckers, Kazunori Kihara
Radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) patients frequently impairs their quality of life (QOL) due to urinary diversion. To improve their QOL, a bladder-sparing alternative strategy using chemoradiation has been developed. In bladder-sparing protocols, complete response (CR) to induction chemoradiation is a prerequisite for bladder preservation and favorable survival. Thus predicting chemoradiation resistance and overcoming it would increase individual MIBC patients' chances of bladder preservation. The aim of this study is to investigate putative molecular targets for treatment aimed at improving chemoradiation response. Expression levels of erbB2, NF?B, p53, and survivin were evaluated immunohistochemically in pretreatment biopsy samples from 35 MIBC patients in whom chemoradiation sensitivity had been pathologically evaluated in cystectomy specimens, and associations of these expression levels with chemoradiation sensitivity and cancer-specific survival (CSS) were investigated. Of the 35 patients, 11 (31%) achieved pathological CR, while tumors in the remaining 24 patients (69%) were chemoradiation-resistant. Multivariate analysis identified erbB2 and NF?B overexpression and hydronephrosis as significant and independent risk factors for chemoradiation resistance with respective relative risks of 11.8 (P?=?0.014), 15.4 (P?=?0.024) and 14.3 (P?=?0.038). The chemoradiation resistance rate was 88.5% for tumors overexpressing erbB2 and/or NF?B, but only 11.1% for those negative for both (P <0.0001). The 5-year CSS rate was 74% overall. Through multivariate analysis, overexpression of erbB2 and/or NF?B was identified as an independent risk factor for bladder cancer death with marginal significance (hazard ratio 21.5, P?=?0.056) along with chemoradiation resistance (P?=?0.003) and hydronephrosis (P?=?0.018). The 5-year CSS rate for the 11 patients achieving pathological CR was 100%, while that for the 24 with chemoradiation-resistant disease was 61% (P?=?0.018). Thus, erbB2 and NF?B overexpression are relevant to chemoradiation resistance and are putative targets aimed at overcoming chemoradiation resistance in MIBC.
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