Tianhe Zhao1,1, Lichun Wu1,2,1, Xinyang Li1, Huangmei Dai1, Zunzhen Zhang1. 1. Department of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. 2. Division of Clinical Laboratory, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Recent study has revealed that large intergenic non-coding RNA-ROR (linc-ROR) is aberrantly expressed in a number of cancers including breast cancer. However, whether circulating linc-ROR in plasma could be used for breast cancer diagnosis and dynamic monitoring is not clear. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to determine if plasma linc-ROR could be applied as a biomarker for the diagnosis and dynamic monitoring of breast cancer. METHODS: We tested the expression levels of linc-ROR in 24 pairs of tissue samples and 96 plasma samples from breast cancer patients by quantitative real time-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), and analyzed the correlation between plasma linc-ROR levels and clinico-pathological characteristics. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to assess the diagnostic power of plasma linc-ROR, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen (CA)153 for breast cancer. Furthermore, we explored the monitoring values of plasma linc-ROR for breast cancer by analyzing the preoperative and postoperative plasma linc-ROR levels of the same patients. RESULTS: The expression levels of linc-ROR were significantly higher in breast cancer tissues and plasma than the levels in the control (P< 0.05). The linc-ROR expression levels in plasma were correlated with lymph node metastasis (P< 0.05), estrogen receptor (ER) (P< 0.05) and progesterone receptor (PR) (P< 0.05). The area under the ROC curve of plasma linc-ROR was 0.758 (sensitivity 80.0%; specificity 73.3%), which was higher than CEA and CA153 values from the same patients obtained. Combination of the linc-ROR with the conventional biomarkers might produce better diagnostic ability. Additionally, the linc-ROR expression levels of plasma in postoperative patients were lower than those in preoperative patients (P< 0.05). CONCLUSION: Overexpressed linc-ROR may be a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and dynamic monitoring of breast cancer.
BACKGROUND: Recent study has revealed that large intergenic non-coding RNA-ROR (linc-ROR) is aberrantly expressed in a number of cancers including breast cancer. However, whether circulating linc-ROR in plasma could be used for breast cancer diagnosis and dynamic monitoring is not clear. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to determine if plasma linc-ROR could be applied as a biomarker for the diagnosis and dynamic monitoring of breast cancer. METHODS: We tested the expression levels of linc-ROR in 24 pairs of tissue samples and 96 plasma samples from breast cancerpatients by quantitative real time-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), and analyzed the correlation between plasma linc-ROR levels and clinico-pathological characteristics. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to assess the diagnostic power of plasma linc-ROR, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen (CA)153 for breast cancer. Furthermore, we explored the monitoring values of plasma linc-ROR for breast cancer by analyzing the preoperative and postoperative plasma linc-ROR levels of the same patients. RESULTS: The expression levels of linc-ROR were significantly higher in breast cancer tissues and plasma than the levels in the control (P< 0.05). The linc-ROR expression levels in plasma were correlated with lymph node metastasis (P< 0.05), estrogen receptor (ER) (P< 0.05) and progesterone receptor (PR) (P< 0.05). The area under the ROC curve of plasma linc-ROR was 0.758 (sensitivity 80.0%; specificity 73.3%), which was higher than CEA and CA153 values from the same patients obtained. Combination of the linc-ROR with the conventional biomarkers might produce better diagnostic ability. Additionally, the linc-ROR expression levels of plasma in postoperative patients were lower than those in preoperative patients (P< 0.05). CONCLUSION: Overexpressed linc-ROR may be a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and dynamic monitoring of breast cancer.
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Keywords:
Long non-coding RNAs; biomarker; breast cancer; linc-ROR