ABSTRACT
AIM:This study was to investigate the expression and significance of Bmi-1 in colorectal carcinoma (CRC),and to explore the effect of Bmi-1 on Ki67 expression in human CRC.METHODS:The samples from sixty CRC,thirty adenomas and twenty normal colorectal mucosal tissues were used in this study. The expression of Bmi-1 protein was detected by immunohistochemistry. The clinicopathological features and survival rate of patients were also analyzed.RESULTS:The overexpression of Bmi-1 was respectively 25.0%,6.7%and 0% in CRC and adenomas as well as normal colorectal mucosal tissues. The results showed that the expression of Bim-1 was significantly higher in CRC,compared with that in adenomas and normal colorectal mucosal tissues (P0.05). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that the overexpression of Bmi-1 reduced significantly survival of CRC patients (P