p53 expression is a factor for prognostic assessment in breast sarcoma

Authors: Maciel M.d.S.¹; Viegas L.C.²; Nonogaki S.³; Nishimoto I.N.¹; Abrão F.S.¹; Neto M.M.¹; Brentani M.M.⁴

Source: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, Volume 71, Number 3, February 2002 , pp. 193-202(10)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

The present study was undertaken with the aim of evaluating the clinical and anatomopathological findings, emphasizing expression of the protein p53 as possible prognostic markers, in patients with breast sarcoma. p53 immunohistochemical expression was determined in archival paraffin embedded tissue blocks of 30 breast sarcoma patients, (19 fibrosarcomas, nine malignant fibrohistiocytomas and two liposarcomas) treated at the Hospital do Câncer AC Camargo, São Paulo, Brazil from 1955 to 1990. Immunopositivity was present in 50% of the cases. The survival of the patients was compared with the above parameters. Median follow up time was 113 months. The 5 years specific survival rates were 55.1% for patients with a positive expression of p53 contrariwise to 92.3% of specific survival found in p53 negative patients (p = 0.04). Positive expression of p53 was found in 3/4 (75%) of the patients with local recurrence and in 7/9 (77%) of patients with metastatic disease. No significant correlation between survival and clinicopathologic features (age, menopausal status, tumor size, stage and histological type), was found. A slight positive correlation between high grade and poor outcome was observed, 89% of the metastatic cases being classified as high grade (p = 0.02, by one sided Fisher's exact test). When we have compared, independently, survival probability curves between p53 positive/negative expression and each category of clinicopathologic features a worse prognosis was observed when p53 was positive in patients older than 50 years (p = 0.01), in tumors larger than 5 cm (p = 0.02), within the malignant fibrous histiocytoma subtype (p = 0.01) and in tumors classified as high grade (p = 0.07). In conclusion p53 expression seems to be a useful prognostic marker for this type of tumor.

Keywords: breast sarcoma; p53; prognosis

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Hospital do Câncer AC Camargo 2: Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP 3: Institituto Adolpho Lutz 4: Disciplina de Oncologia, Departamento de Radiologia da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, São Paulo, Brasil

Publication date: 2002-02-01

p53 expression is a factor for prognostic assessment in breast sarcoma

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