TrkA expression in peripheral neuroblastic tumors: prognostic significance and biological relevance

Cancer
Hiroyuki ShimadaRobert C Seeger

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the prognostic significance and biologic relevance of trkA expression levels in peripheral neuroblastic tumors (pNTs) (i.e., neuroblastoma, ganglioneuroblastoma, and ganglioneuroma). Levels of trkA expression from a total of 265 pNTs were determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis with Genescan software. The results were analyzed according to histopathology (favorable histology [FH] vs. unfavorable histology [UH] according to the International Neuroblastoma Pathology Classification) and MYCN tumor status (amplified vs. nonamplified) along with clinical stage and outcomes of the patients. The levels of trkA expression differed significantly between the group of patients who were alive and well (n = 170 patients) and the group that had progressed or died (n = 95 patients) and between the group that was alive (n = 188 patients) and the group that died (n = 77 patients). However, the trkA expression levels were not independent predictors of clinical outcome when the proportional hazards model contained the known prognostic variables of clinical stage, histopathology, and MYCN status (all tests were done in 196 patients). In the neuroblastoma category (n = 173 tumors), tumor...Continue Reading

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