Clinical significance of combined detection of P53 and Ki67 in patients with esophageal carcinoma / 中国综合临床

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the clinical significance of expression of P53,Ki67 in proliferation,invasion and metastasis of cancer cells of patients with esophageal carcinoma.Methods Eighty-six patients with esophageal carcinoma were selected as tumor group from January 2006 to May 2008.And another 86 patients without tumor were as control group.ABC-immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of P53 and Ki67 in 172 cases of patients with esophageal carcinoma.Results The expression of P53 in patients with esophageal carcinoma was different from that in control subjects (x2 =4.045,P ＜ 0.05),and the P53 expression rate in two group were 66.3％ (57/86) and 51.1％ (44/86) respectively.The rate of P53 expression reaching to + + in two groups was also significant (x2 =8.592,P ＜ 0.01).Ki67 expression in patients with esophageal carcinoma was higher than that of control patients (76.7％ (66/86) vs.60.5％ (82/86),x2 =5.291,P ＜ 0.05).Additionally,there was significant difference regarding of Ki6 expression reaching to + + positive(x2 =13.661,P ＜ 0.01).Moreover,the expression of P53 and Ki67 were found to be a positively correlation(r =0.400,P =0.00).The expression of P53 and Ki67 were related with invasion and differentiation of cancer cells (x2 =3.945,5.794 respectively,all P ＜ 0.05) and lymph node metastasis (x2 =5.570,4.354 respectively,all P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Over-expression of P53 and Ki67 were involved in the process of proliferation,invasion and metastasis of cancer cells in esophageal carcinoma,which coherently impacted the occurrence and development of esophageal cancer.The combined detection of P53 and Ki67 seems to help the early diagnosis of esophageal cancer and evaluation of the degree of malignancy,invasion,metastasis and prognosis.Over-expression of P53,Ki67 might be served as a reference marker in screening for chemotherapy for esophageal cancer.