| Literature DB >> 10213922 |
K Nakajima1, T Suzuki, H Shimada, H Hayashi, A Takeda, T Ochiai.
Abstract
The presence of circulating anti-p53 antibodies (p53Ab) was investigated in 81 gastric cancer patients by ELISA. Preoperatively, anti-p53Ab were revealed in 13 cases (16%), including 3 early gastric cancers. No significant correlation of p53Ab with patient age, sex, pathological parameters and tumor markers, such as CEA and CA19-9 was observed, although p53Ab positivity tended to be associated with a higher rate of lymph node metastases (p = 0.073). We have found no significant correlation between p53Ab and poor survival rate (p = 0.325). In conclusion, we have observed that p53Ab are detectable in gastric cancer patients, even at early stages of disease, however, p53Ab have not served as a predictor of poor prognosis in gastric cancer in this series.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID： 10213922 DOI： 10.1159/000030057
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tumour Biol ISSN： 1010-4283