Relationship between Survivin protein and esophageal cancer: a systematic review / 肿瘤研究与临床

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate Survivin protein and esophageal cancer with a systematic review.Methods The published studies were searched in the Cochrane Library (Issuel,2011),Pubmed and CNKI databases, and other relevant journals were also hand searched to identify all the relevant case-control trials.Then the quality of the included trials was assessed and meta-regression analysis was performed,by STATA 11.0 software.Results A total of 15 studies were recruited.As for the positive rate of Survivin expression, significant differences were tested between esophageal cancer vs.normal esophageal tissues (OR =39.98, 95 ％ CI =15.08-106.02, P ＜ 0.05).No significant difference was tested between cell differentiation G3 vs.cell differentiation G1-G2(OR =1.47,95 ％ CI =0.59-3.68,P ＞ 0.05).There were significant differences between T stagesⅢ-Ⅳ vs.T stages Ⅰ-Ⅱ (OR =2.82,95 ％ CI =1.35-5.90,P ＜ 0.05),clinic stages Ⅲ-Ⅳ vs.clinic stages Ⅰ-Ⅱ (OR =2.99, 95 ％ CI =2.03-4.41, P ＜ 0.05), lymph node metastasis vs.non-lymph node metastasis (OR =4.11,95 ％ CI =2.79-6.05,P ＜ 0.05).Moreover,Survivin expression was positively correlated with the expression of hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) (r =0.542,P ＜ 0.005).Conclusion Survivin expression increased malignant behaviors of esophageal cancer.There might be substantial correlations between Survivin and HIF-1α expression and esophageal cancer.