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CANCER PREVENTION RESEARCH
Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages 1333-1341Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-10-0338
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- Instituto de Salud Carlos III [FI09/00343]
- Fondos FEDER [CP07/00032, PI10/00157, PI07/0777]
- Red Tematica de Investigacion Cooperativa en Cancer, ISCIII [RD06/0020/0034]
- Fundacion para el Fomento en Asturias de la Investigacion Cientifica Aplicada y la Tecnologia (FICYT) [IB09-068, BP08-007]
- Obra Social Cajastur-IUOPA
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Novel markers are needed to accurately predict the risk of malignant transformation in laryngeal premalignancies. We therefore investigated the clinical significance of cortactin (CTTN) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) during laryngeal tumorigenesis and their potential utility as cancer risk markers. CTTN and FAK protein expression and gene amplification were assessed in 82 patients with laryngeal dysplasia and correlated with clinicopathologic parameters and laryngeal cancer risk. Increased CTTN and FAK expression was found respectively in 41 (50%) and 40 (49%) of 82 laryngeal dysplasias; protein expression was maintained or further augmented in the corresponding patient-matched invasive tumors subsequently developed. CTTN and FAK/PTK2 gene amplifications were respectively detected in 10 (12%) and 26 (32%) laryngeal dysplasias. Both CTTN and FAK protein expression increased with the grade of dysplasia; however, CTTN and FAK expression but not histology correlated significantly with increased laryngeal cancer risk (P = 0.009 and P = 0.002, respectively). Patients carrying strong CTTN- or FAK-expressing dysplastic lesions experienced a significantly higher cancer incidence (P = 0.006 and P = 0.001, respectively; log-rank test). Furthermore, FAK expression was an independent predictor of laryngeal cancer development (HR = 3.706, 95% CI: 1.735-7.916; P = 0.001) and the combination of FAK and CTTN showed superior predictive value (HR = 5.042, 95% CI: 2.255-11.274; P < 0.001). Taken together, our findings support the involvement of CTTN and FAK in malignant transformation and provide original evidence for their potential clinical utility as biomarkers for the risk of developing laryngeal cancer. Cancer Prev Res; 4(8); 1333-41. (C) 2011 AACR.
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