UROKINASE (UPA) AND ITS INHIBITOR PAI-1 ARE STRONG AND INDEPENDENT PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN NODE-NEGATIVE BREAST-CANCER

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作者
JANICKE, F
SCHMITT, M
PACHE, L
ULM, K
HARBECK, N
HOFLER, H
GRAEFF, H
机构
[1] TECH UNIV MUNCHEN POLIKLIN,W-8000 MUNICH 80,GERMANY
[2] TECH UNIV MUNICH,INST MED STAT & EPIDEMIOL,W-8000 MUNICH 80,GERMANY
[3] TECH UNIV MUNICH,INST ALLGEMEINE PATHOL & PATHOL ANAT,W-8000 MUNICH 80,GERMANY
关键词
PROTEASE; INHIBITOR; UROKINASE; UPA; PAI-1; CATHEPSIN-D; PROGNOSIS; BREAST CANCER; AXILLARY NODE-NEGATIVE PATIENTS;
D O I
10.1007/BF01833260
中图分类号
R73 [肿瘤学];
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100214 ;
摘要
Evidence has accumulated that invasion and metastasis in solid tumors require the action of tumor-associated proteases, which promote the dissolution of the surrounding tumor matrix and the basement membranes. The serine protease urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), which is elevated in solid tumors, appears to play a key role in these processes. We used enzyme-linked immunoassays (ELISA) to test for uPA antigen and its inhibitor PAI-1 in tumor tissue extracts of 247 breast cancer patients who were enrolled in a prospective study. The relation of these data to known prognostic factors and to other variables such as DNA analysis and cathepsin D was studied. Disease-free and overall survival were analyzed according to Cox's proportional hazard model. The major new finding is that breast cancer patients with either high uPA (>2.97 ng/mg protein) or high content of the uPA inhibitor PAI-1 (>2.18 ng/mg protein) in their primary tumors have an increased risk of relapse and death. Multivariate analyses revealed uPA to be an independent and strong prognostic factor. The impact of uPA is as high as that of the lymph node status. In node-negative patients the impact of uPA is closely followed by that of PAI-1. Since uPA and PAI-1 are independent prognostic factors, the node-negative patients could be subdivided further by combining these two variables. In this refined analysis, patients whose primary tumors have lower levels of both antigens evidently have a very low risk of relapse (93% disease-free survival at three years) in contrast to patients with high uPA and high PAI-1 (55% disease-free survival at three years). The combination of uPA and PAI-1 in our group of patients with axillary node-negative breast cancer allows us to identify the 45 percent of patients having an increased risk of relapse. Consequently, more than half of the patients had less than a 10% probability of relapse and thus would possibly be candidates for being spared the necessity of adjuvant therapy.
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