Title: [Expression and clinical significance of Ang-2 and MMP-7 in laryngeal carcinoma].
Abstract: To investigate the expression and clinical significance of Ang-2 and MMP-7 protein in laryngeal carcinoma tissue.Immunohistochemical technique was used to detect the expression of Ang-2 and MMP-7 protein in 65 tissues of laryngeal carcinoma and 34 biopsies of adjacent non- cancerous tissue. The relationship between the expression of Ang-2 and MMP-7 and invasion, metastasis or prognosis in laryngeal carcinoma tissue was analyzed.The positive rates of Ang-2 and MMP-7 were significantly higher in laryngeal carcinoma tissue than those in adjacent non-cancerous tissue (P < 0.05). The level of Ang-2 and MMP-7 expression had no significant correlations with the age and course as well as the smoking, drinking, histological differentiation of carcinoma and clinical classification (P > 0.05). While the expression of Ang-2 significantly differed between patients with different T stage and clinical stage (P < 0.05), and the expression of MMP-7 was notably correlated with the T stage, clinical stage and lymph node metastases (P < 0.05). There was a correlation between the expression of Ang-2 and MMP-7 (P < 0.05). The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that patients with positive expression of Ang-2 had worse overall survival (P < 0.05). However, MMP-7 expression was not related to overall survival or disease-free survival (all P > 0.05). Cox regression analysis indicated that Ang-2 and MMP-7 expression were independent prognostic factors of laryngeal carcinoma.Overexpression of Ang-2 and MMP-7 was observed in laryngeal carcinoma and they might be served as an objective indicator for biological behaviour and prognosis.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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