Metalloproteinases and colorectal cancer. Correlation of gene expression and clinical-pathological parameters.

Purpose: To analyze gene and protein expression of metalloproteinases 1, 2, 9, 11 and 16 and their correlation with clinicopathological variables in colorectal adenocarcinoma.

Methods: A retrospective study of 114 patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma treated surgically in the period 2006 to 2008 in Hospital de Câncer de Barretos - Fundação Pio XII. The evaluation of gene expression was performed by RT-PCR, and protein by immunohistochemistry.

Overexpression of the ITGAV gene is associated with progression and spread of colorectal cancer.

Background/aim: The interaction of neoplastic cells with the extracellular matrix is a critical event for the initiation of cancer invasion and metastasis. We evaluated the relationship between the expression of SPARC, ITGAV, THBS1 and VCAM-1 genes of extracellular matrix in the progression and dissemination of colorectal cancer (CRC).

Patients And Methods: Adult patients (N=114) underwent resection of CRC.

Expression profiling using a cDNA array and immunohistochemistry for the extracellular matrix genes FN-1, ITGA-3, ITGB-5, MMP-2, and MMP-9 in colorectal carcinoma progression and dissemination.

Colorectal cancer dissemination depends on extracellular matrix genes related to remodeling and degradation of the matrix structure. This investigation intended to evaluate the association between FN-1, ITGA-3, ITGB-5, MMP-2, and MMP-9 gene and protein expression levels in tumor tissue with clinical and histopathological neoplastic parameters of cancer dissemination. The expression associations between ECM molecules and selected epithelial markers EGFR, VEGF, Bcl2, P53, and KI-67 have also been examined in 114 patients with colorectal cancer who underwent primary tumor resection.

Expression of integrin genes and proteins in progression and dissemination of colorectal adenocarcinoma.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between the expression levels of selected integrin genes and proteins and cell differentiation, TNM stage, histological type and other variables potentially associated with the progression and dissemination of colorectal carcinoma (CRC).

Methods: A total of 114 patients (63 men and 51 women) were treated for CRC between 2006 and 2009, including 25 (21.9%) TNM I, 39 (34.

Relationship between the expression of the extracellular matrix genes SPARC, SPP1, FN1, ITGA5 and ITGAV and clinicopathological parameters of tumor progression and colorectal cancer dissemination.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between the expression of the extracellular matrix (ECM) genes SPARC, SPP1, FN1, ITGA5 and ITGAV and the histopathologic parameters of neoplastic progression and colorectal carcinoma (CRC) dissemination.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in 114 patients with stage I-IV CRC who underwent primary tumor resection. Quantitative real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry (IHC) assays were performed in samples obtained from the primary tumors.

Laparoscopic mobilization for resection of the transverse colon for cancer: a simple, reproducible method.

Laparoscopic resection for colorectal cancer by appropriately skilled surgeons is now accepted as safe and oncologically sound. Much of the contemporary debate in this area is regarding appropriate training of surgeons, as there is a steep learning curve. Arguably, the most difficult aspect of laparoscopic colon resection is mobilization of the transverse colon, with division of the middle colic artery.

Study on the prevalence of human papillomavirus in the anal canal of women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III.

Objective: The objective was to evaluate the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the anal canal of women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grade III.

Study Design: Two groups were compared. In group I (study group), 40 women who had undergone cervical biopsy with a histopathological result indicating CIN III were evaluated.