The utility of serum CA9 in prognostication in prostate cancer.
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Abstract
309 Background: Solid tumours are invariably less well-oxygenated than their normal tissue counterparts. Tumour hypoxia is important because it leads to resistance to radiotherapy and anticancer chemotherapy, and has been associated with prognosis in localized prostate cancer. Carbonic anhydrase IX (CA9), a member of a family of metalloenzymes that catalyze the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide, is considered to be one of the best biomarkers of cellular hypoxia. Although CA9 has been negatively correlated with survival in various cancers, no published data has demonstrated prognostic significance in prostate cancer. Methods: We retrospectively assessed CA9 in samples from 68 men with localized high-risk prostate cancer (LD) treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) or radiotherapy (RT), and twenty men with CRPC treated with docetaxel chemotherapy (DC). Samples were taken before treatment with RP and RT (in LD) or DC (in CRPC) from 2010 to 2012 at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center. Results: Of the 68 patients with LD, 57 patients underwent RP and 11 patients underwent RT. The proportion of patients with recurrence was 74% for RP and 55% for RT. Median CA9 for patients with LD and recurrence was 147 (range 60-1061) and 114 (range 48-1293) for those with no recurrence. Baseline CA9 was not associated with recurrence or PSA in these patients (p 0.79 and 0.09 respectively). Median follow-up for patients with CRPC was 14.1 months and 17 of 20 patients had confirmed death at the end of follow-up. The median CA9 level before DC was 155 pg/mL (range 38-1086). CA9 level before chemotherapy correlated with overall survival -0.41, however this did not reach statistical significance (p 0.10). There was no association between CA9 and PSA in CRPC (p 0.51). Conclusions: Absolute CA9 level negatively correlated with survival in men with CRPC, with a level that approached statistical significance in this small cohort. CA9 was not associated with recurrence of disease in men with LD, treated with either RP or RT. More data evaluating the relationship between hypoxia, CA9 and outcome in prostate cancer is needed before recommending its use as a biomarker in CRPC.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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