Different genetic features associated with colon and rectal carcinogenesis

Clinical Cancer Research : an Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
Milo FrattiniMarco A Pierotti

Abstract

The issue of whether colon and rectal cancer should be considered as a single entity or two distinct entities is still debated, and there is a need to improve studies addressing the heterogeneity of the pathogenetic pathway leading to sporadic colorectal cancers (SCRCs) as well as to identify biological and/or molecular differences between colon and rectal cancers. Specimens of SCRCs were analyzed for somatic mutations in APC, K-ras, and TP53 genes and loss-of-heterozygosity of chromosome 18. Eleven SCRCs showed microsatellite instability. APC mutation frequency was significantly lower in microsatellite instability (MIN+) than in MIN- SCRCs. All MIN- SCRCs showed beta-catenin overexpression. A combined analysis of the biomarkers revealed two pathways mainly represented by MIN- SCRCs and differently followed on the basis of tumor location, APC-K-ras-TP53-Ch18q and APC-TP53-Ch18q. The APC-beta-catenin pathway is inactivated in MIN- SCRCs and represents the first hit of SCRC development. Two preferential pathways followed by SCRCs occur, one K-ras dependent, in agreement with the Fearon and Vogelstein model, and the other K-ras independent. Significant differences between colon and rectal tumors occur in our series of MIN- SCRCs. ...Continue Reading

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