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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 48, Issue 11, Pages 1682-1691Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2011.12.029
Keywords
Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1; Biomarker; Metastasis; Immunohistochemistry; Head and neck cancer; Quantum dot; Nanotechnology
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- National Institutes of Heath [R21 CA125062]
- Georgia Cancer Collation Distinguished Scholar Award
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This study explored whether the expression of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1A1) in the primary tumour correlated with lymph node metastasis (LNM) of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC). We used both quantum dot (QD)-based immunohistofluorescence (IHF) and conventional immunohistochemistry (IHC) to quantify ALDH1A1 expression in primary tumour samples taken from 96 HNSCC patients, 50 with disease in the lymph nodes and 46 without. The correlation between the quantified level of ALDH1A1 expression and LNM in HNSCC patients was evaluated with univariate and multivariate analysis. The prognostic value of ALDH1A1 was examined by Kaplan-Meier analysis and Wald test. ALDH1A1 was highly correlated with LNM in HNSCC patients (p < 0.0001 by QD-based IHF and 0.039 by IHC). The two methods (QD-based IHF and conventional IHC) for quantification of ALDH1A1 were found to be comparable (R = 0.75, p < 0.0001), but QD-IHF was more sensitive and objective than IHC. The HNSCC patients with low ALDH1A1 expression had a higher 5-year survival rate than those with high ALDH1A1 level (p = 0.025). Our study suggests that ALDH1A1 is a potential biomarker for predicting LNM in HNSCC patients, though it is not an independent prognostic factor for survival of HNSCC patients. Furthermore, QD-IHF has advantages over IHC in quantification of ALDH1A1 expression in HNSCC tissues. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
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