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The Relationship Among Ki-67, ERBB2, GATA3, STAG2, P53, and YAP1 in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is one of the most lethal forms of cancer with a 5-year survival of only 7% for both men and women. Despite substantial progress made in successfully personalizing treatment for other tumors such as breast, prostate, and lung, treatment for PDA remains elusive due, in part, to its unique growth pattern and lack of surveillance tools to detect early lesions. Because most PDA lesions have metastasized at the time of diagnosis and exhibit a heterogeneously infiltrative growth pattern by interdigitating malignant cells among various normal tissue components, decisive, targeted therapies are needed to remove tumor cells while leaving the surrounding benign tissues undamaged. In an effort to identify biomarkers, immunohistochemistry assays were employed to determine the expression of Ki-67, KLK7, YAP1, CK 5, CK 20, CEA, GATA3, XAF1, STAG2, CK 18, ERBB2, and P53 in 42 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded PDA samples. Although no statistically significant correlation was associated with tumor aggressiveness as determined by Ki-67 positivity, several pairs of markers demonstrated positive correlations with each other and included ERBB2/STAG2, ERBB/YAP1, ERBB/GATA3, ERBB/P53, GATA3/STAG2, and GATA3/YAP1. Characterization of individual tumors with respect to over- or under-expression of specific proteins may offer dual therapy targets in PDA to potentially improve patient outcomes.

Published in Cancer Research Journal (Volume 10, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.crj.20221003.12
Page(s) 61-69
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Cancer, Pancreas, Therapy

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