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PI3K/AKT/mTOR 信号通路在胃癌中的表达及其在胃癌预后的作用

 

Authors Ying J, Xu Q, Liu B, Zhang G, Chen L, Pan H
Received 14 May 2015
Accepted for publication 3 August 2015
Published 1 September 2015 Volume 2015:8 Pages 2427—2433
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S88592
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Peer reviewers approved by Dr Narasimha Reddy Parine
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Editor who approved publication:  Professor Daniele Santini

Objective: To analyze the correlation between sequential aspects of the phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway by immunohistochemistry in the primary lesion of gastric cancer, clinicopathologic factors, and survival in Chinese patients to explore the role of sequential analysis of multiple targets in prognoses.
Methods: Immunohistochemistry was performed to examine the expression of PI3K, phosphorylated-AKT (p-AKT), and hosphorylated-mTOR (p-mTOR) in 59 primary lesion samples ranging from Stages I to IV after gastrectomy. The correlation between sequential expression of multiple targets, and clinicopathologic factors and survival was analyzed.
Results: The positive expression rates of PI3K, p-AKT, and p-mTOR were 49%, 58%, and 56%, respectively. There were eleven cases with three biomarkers positive (19%), 22 cases with two biomarkers positive (37%), and 19 cases with only one biomarker positive (32%). Seven cases (12%) were all negative. Multi-factorial Cox regression analysis showed that neural invasion, vascular invasion, size of the tumor, lymph nodes affected, metastasis, carbohydrate antigen 19-9 level, and PI3K/p-AKT/p-mTOR simultaneous expression were independent prognostic parameters. The risk of death for the cases with two biomarkers positive was 0.367 times that for the cases with three biomarkers positive (=0.166). The risk of death for the cases with only one biomarker positive was 0.105 times that for the cases with three biomarkers positive (=0.058). The risk of death for the cases with three biomarkers negative was 0.017 times that for the cases with three biomarkers positive (=0.022).
Conclusion: Our study generated the hypothesis that patients with gastric cancer with simultaneous expression of PI3K/p-AKT/p-mTOR had worse outcome. But we need more rigorous validation in a larger data set.
Keywords: gastric cancer, PI3K/AKT/mTOR, prognosis