Long telomere length predicts poor clinical outcome in esophageal cancer patients

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• 作者：Yanyan Lv^a ; ^b ; ^{lyywjplxj@163.com} ; Yong Zhang^c ; ^{zhangyongyang05@163.com} ; Xinru Li^a ; ^{245228632@qq.com} ; Xiaojuan Ren^a ; ^{xiaojuanren0803@163.com} ; Meichen Wang^a ; ^{wmc_2010@stu.xjtu.edu.cn} ; Sijia Tian^a ; ^{tiansijia5020@163.com} ; Peng Hou^a ; ^d ; ^{phou@mail.xjtu.edu.cn} ; Bingyin Shi^a ; ^d ; ^{shibingy@126.com} ; Qi Yang^a ; ^d ; ^{yangqi2015@mail.xjtu.edu.cn}
• 关键词：Esophageal cancer ; Relative telomere length ; Biomarker ; Clinical outcome
• 刊名：Pathology - Research and Practice
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：213
• 期：2
• 页码：113-118
• 全文大小：1174 K
• 卷排序：213

文摘

Abnormal telomere length is widely reported in various human cancers, and it is considered to be an important hallmark of cancer. However, there is remarkably little consensus on the value of telomere length in the prognostic evaluation of esophageal cancers. Here, we attempted to determine the association of variable telomere length with clinical outcome of esophageal cancer patients.Materials and methodsUsing real-time quantitative PCR, we examined relative telomere lengths (RTL) in a cohort of esophageal cancer and normal esophageal tissues, and statistically investigated the association between RTL and clinical outcomes of esophageal cancer patients.ResultsThe majority of esophageal cancers in this study had longer RTLs as compared to adjacent non-tumor tissues. Enhanced tumor RTL was associated with smoking habit, poor differentiation, advanced tumor stage, lymph node metastasis and cancer related death. In particular, a close relationship between longer RTL and poor survival was fully demonstrated by using cox regression and Kaplan-Maier survival curves.ConclusionsWe found frequent telomere elongation in esophageal cancer tissues, and demonstrated longer RTL may be an independent poor prognostic factor for esophageal cancer patients.