ABSTRACT
Purpose To investigate TRAP1 expression in esophageal cancer and its relationship with clinicopathological features and prognosis.Methods Expression levels of TRAP1 in 60 pairs of cancer and adjacent normal tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry,and the relevance between TRAP1 and clinicopathological features was evaluated.Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional regression analyses were performed to determine the association of TRAP 1 expression and survival of the patients.Results The positive expression rate of TRAP1 was 55.0％,and the amount of relative protein transcript level was 2.7 ± 1.1 in the cancer tissue.The positive expression rate of TRAP1 was 11.7％,and the relative expression protein was 0.5 ± 0.4 in the adjacent normal tissue.The expression level of TRAP1 in cancerous tissue was significantly higher than that of tissue adjacent to carcinoma.There was no statistically significant difference between the expression levels of TRAP1 with sex,age,location,and degree of differentiation (P ＞ 0.05).There was statistically significant relationship between recurrence,metastasis and TNM stages with the expression of TRAP1 levels (P ＜ 0.05).The average survival time of TRAP1-negative patients was 69.0 months (95％ CI:60.2-77.9) while the TRAP1-positive patients was 34.2 months (95％ CI:24.4-44.1).High levels of TRAP1 were correlated with decreased survival of postoperative esophageal cancer patients (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion TRAP1 is overexpressed in esophageal cancer and associated with the progression and prognosis of esophageal cancer.