Clinico-morphological and immunohistochemical examinations were carried out in 46 patients with carcinocarcinoma of the corpus uteri to evaluate p53, PTEN and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression in mesenchymal and epithelial cells of tumor. p53 expression in the epithelium and that of COX-2 in both compartments appeared to be unfavorable prognosticators of survival while that of PTEN is a lesser one in significance.
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