Genetic and immunophenotype analyses of TP53 in bladder cancer: TP53 alterations are associated with tumor progression

Erill N 1, Colomer A 1, Verdú M 2, Román R 1, Condom E 2, Hannaoui N 3, Banús JM 3, Cordón-Cardó C 4, and Puig X 1,2.

1BIOPAT, Grup Assistència, Barcelona; 2HISTOPAT Laboratoris, Barcelona; 3ICUN, Barcelona; and 4Division of Molecular Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Altered p53 status is a frequent event in bladder cancer and reported to have prognostic significance. We studied the TP53gene and its product in 76 patients affected with urinary bladder carcinomas by immunohistochemistry (mAb DO-7), […]

2004-02-09T22:14:36+00:00

Microsatellite analysis of chromosome 18 in colorectal cancer

Erill N1, Colomer A1, Calvo M3, Vidal A2, Román R 1, Verdú M2, Cordon-Cardo C4, Puig X 1,2.

1BIOPAT, 2HISTOPAT Laboratoris, 3Statistics Dept. of the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; and 4Division of Molecular Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Chromosome 18q allelic loss (c18q LOH) seems to have prognostic significance in stage II colorectal carcinoma. In our laboratory c18q LOH was prospectively analyzed in a series of primary colorectal tumors using five markers (D18S55/58/61/64 and 69). Results of 207 PCR-based assays […]

2003-07-23T17:00:47+00:00

Lack of p53 nuclear immunostaining is not indicative of absence of TP53 gene mutations in colorectal adenocarcinomas

Anna Colomer,1 Nadina Erill,1 Montse Verdú,2 Ruth Roman,1 August Vidal,1,2 Carlos Cordon-Cardo,1,3 Xavier Puig1,2

1BIOPAT, Grup Assistència, Barcelona; 2HISTOPAT Laboratoris, Barcelona; and 3Division of Molecular Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Multiple studies using primary tumors have reported that alterations in p53 expression and detection of TP53 mutations are associated with clinical aggressiveness and poor response to specific therapies.  However, there is no general agreement regarding the optimal technical approach to the analysis of p53.  We have studied a series of […]

2003-07-23T16:51:27+00:00

HER-2/neu status in breast carcinoma: overexpression versus amplification

Verdú M1, Colomer A2, Román R2, Erill N2, Moreno A1, Cordón-Cardo C1,2, Puig X1,2.

1HISTOPAT Laboratoris & 2BIOPAT. Grup Assistència. Barcelona (Spain).

HER-2/neu is a critical marker in assessing the molecular profile of breast cancer, as it represents a target for therapeutic intervention. HER-2/neu gene amplification has been reported to be associated with treatment response. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) to detect HER-2/neu protein overexpression was initially recommended as the technique of choice to assign patients to Herceptin clinical treatment. However, different studies have shown […]

2003-02-23T17:27:24+00:00

Molecular evaluation of TP53 status in human colorectal and urinary bladder cancer: phenotype versus genotype analysis

Erill N1, Colomer A1, Verdú M2, Román R1, Vidal A2, Condom E2, Banús JM3, Cordón-Cardo C1,2, Puig X1,2.

1BIOPAT. Grup Assistència, 2HISTOPAT Laboratoris & 3ICUN. Institut Català d’Urologia i Nefrologia. Barcelona (Spain).

Mutations of the TP53 tumor suppressor gene and nuclear accumulation of abnormal p53 proteins are common in colon and bladder cancer, and have been associated with clinical aggressiveness and poor response to specific therapies. However, there is no general agreement regarding the optimal technical approach to define the TP53 status […]

2003-02-23T16:49:37+00:00