Marisol Miranda Galvis1, Alan Roger Santos-Silva1,2, Juscelino Freitas Jardim1, Felipe Paiva Fonseca3, Marcio A Lopes1, Oslei Paes de Almeida1, Clóvis A Lópes Pinto4, Estela Kaminagakura5, Iris Sawazaki-Calone6, Paul M Speight2, Luiz Paulo Kowalski7. 1. Department of Oral Diagnosis, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, Brazil. 2. Academic Unit of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Clinical Dentistry, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. 3. Department of Oral Surgery and Pathology, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 4. Department of Anatomic Pathology, A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil. 5. Departament of Bioscience and Oral Diagnosis, Science and Technology Institute, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São José dos Campos, Brazil. 6. Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, Dentistry School, Western Paraná State University, Cascavel, Brazil. 7. Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology, A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) predominantly affects males in the fifth decade of life; nevertheless, an increased incidence in young patients has been reported worldwide, and the clinical and behavioral characteristics of tumors in this group are controversial, and the literature shows divergent results. PURPOSE: To investigate the clinicopathological features and prognostic significance of the immunoexpression of cell cycle and local invasion proteins in OSCC affecting young patients (≤40 years old). METHODS: A tissue microarray was performed with 132 OSCC samples (61 cases of young patients vs 71 cases of elderly patients) and submitted to immunohistochemical reactions with Ki67, p53, p16, Bcl-2, Cyclin D1, C-ErbB2, p21, Myc, EGFR, MMP-9, SMA, Cathepsin K and FGF-2 antibodies. RESULTS: Clinicopathological features and survival rates were similar in both groups. Although overexpression of EGFR (P=.042) and MMP-9 (P=.001) was more frequent in young patients, only C-ErbB-2 (P=.048) and SMA (P=.048) expression correlated with lower disease-free survival (DFS) in this group of patients. CONCLUSION: Clinicopathological features and survival rates are similar between younger and older patients with OSCC. The different patterns of C-ErbB2, EGFR, MMP-9, and SMA expression between the groups merits further investigation to understand their role in the early tumor onset in young patients.
OBJECTIVES:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) predominantly affects males in the fifth decade of life; nevertheless, an increased incidence in young patients has been reported worldwide, and the clinical and behavioral characteristics of tumors in this group are controversial, and the literature shows divergent results. PURPOSE: To investigate the clinicopathological features and prognostic significance of the immunoexpression of cell cycle and local invasion proteins in OSCC affecting young patients (≤40 years old). METHODS: A tissue microarray was performed with 132 OSCC samples (61 cases of young patients vs 71 cases of elderly patients) and submitted to immunohistochemical reactions with Ki67, p53, p16, Bcl-2, Cyclin D1, C-ErbB2, p21, Myc, EGFR, MMP-9, SMA, Cathepsin K and FGF-2 antibodies. RESULTS: Clinicopathological features and survival rates were similar in both groups. Although overexpression of EGFR (P=.042) and MMP-9 (P=.001) was more frequent in young patients, only C-ErbB-2 (P=.048) and SMA (P=.048) expression correlated with lower disease-free survival (DFS) in this group of patients. CONCLUSION: Clinicopathological features and survival rates are similar between younger and older patients with OSCC. The different patterns of C-ErbB2, EGFR, MMP-9, and SMA expression between the groups merits further investigation to understand their role in the early tumor onset in young patients.
Authors: Rafael Ferreira E Costa; Marina Luiza Baião Leão; Maria Sissa Pereira Sant'Ana; Ricardo Alves Mesquita; Ricardo Santiago Gomez; Alan Roger Santos-Silva; Syed Ali Khurram; Artysha Tailor; Ciska-Mari Schouwstra; Liam Robinson; Willie F P van Heerden; Ramiro Alejandro Tomasi; Romina Gorrino; Ruth Salomé Ferreyra de Prato; Adalberto Mosqueda Taylor; José Manuel Aguirre Urizar; Irene Lafuente Ibañez de Mendoza; Raghu Radhakrishnan; Chetana Chandrashekar; Siu-Wai Choi; Peter Thomson; Hélder Antônio Rebelo Pontes; Felipe Paiva Fonseca Journal: Head Neck Pathol Date: 2022-03-22