Pancreatic cancer is a highly aggressive manifestation of cancer, and currently presents poor clinical outcome due to its late diagnosis with metastasic disease. Surgery is the only approach with a curative intend; however, the survival rates seen in this type of patient are still low. After surgery, there is a lack of predictive prognosis biomarkers to predict treatment response and survival to establish a personalized medicine. Human P-element-induced wimpy testis 1 (PIWIL1) and P-element-induced wimpy testis 2 (PIWIL2) proteins act as protectors of germline, and their aberrant expression has been described in several types of tumors. In this study, we aimed to assess an association between PIWIL1 and PIWIL2 expression and the prognosis of biliopancreatic cancer patients. For this, we analyzed protein expression in complete resected tumor samples, and found a significant association between PIWIL2 expression and both progression-free and overall survival ( = 0.036 and = 0.012, respectively). However, PIWIL2 expression was significantly associated with progression-free survival ( = 0.029), and overall survival ( = 0.025) of such tumors originated in the pancreas, but not in the bile duct or ampulla of Vater. Further analysis revealed that PIWIL1 and PIWIL2, at both mRNA and protein expression levels, correlated positively with factors associated to the progenitor molecular subtype of pancreatic cancer. Based on these findings, PIWIL1 and PIWIL2 expression may be considered a potential prognostic biomarker for resectable pancreatic cancer and may serve to guide subsequent adjuvant treatment decisions.
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