Significance ofβ-tubulin Ⅲexpression in the neoadjuvant chemotherapy of locally advanced cervical carcinoma / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the β-tubulin Ⅲexpression in locally advanced cervical cancers and its significance in the neoadjuvant chemotherapy of cervical cancer .Methods Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of β-tubulin Ⅲin tissue samples from 62 cases of locally advanced cervical cancer patients .Groups paclitaxel +cisplatin/carboplatin (TP) (34 pa-tients) underwent two cycles of TP chemotherapy ,while group 5-fluorouracil+cisplatin(PF) (28 patients) underwent two cycles of PF chemotherapy .Comprehensive analysis of β-tubulinⅢexpressions of TP and PF neoadjuvant chemotherapies revealed the efficien -cy and operation rate .Results The positive rate ofβ-tubulin Ⅲ was 62.90% in locally advanced cervical cancer .β-tubulin Ⅲ ex-pression was not correlated with clinicopathological features in locally advanced cervical cancer ( P >0.05 ) .β-tubulinⅢexpression was correlated with efficiency and operation rate with TP chemotherapy but not with PF chemotherapy .Conclusions In the neoadju-vant chemotherapy of locally advanced cervical cancers ,β-tubulinⅢexpression can be used as an important index to predict the effec-tive rate of combined chemotherapy containing paclitaxel and guide the patients to individual chemotherapy .