Catto, James W. F. and Hartmann, A and Stoehr, R and Bolderson, E and Rehman, I and Rosario, DJ and Hamdy, FC and Meuth, M (2006) Multifocal urothelial cancers with the mutator phenotype are of monoclonal origin and require panurothelial treatment for tumor clearance. JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, 175 (6). pp. 2323-2330. ISSN 0022-5347,
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Purpose: UC is a disease of the entire urothelium, characterized by multiplicity and multifocality. The clonal relationship among multiple UCs has implications regarding adjuvant chemotherapy. It has been investigated in studies of chromosomal alteration and single gene mutation. However, these genetic changes can occur in unrelated tumors under similar carcinogenic selection pressures. Tumors with high MSI have numerous DNA mutations, of which many provide no selection benefit. While these tumors represent an ideal model for studying UC clonality, their low frequency has prevented their previous investigation. Materials and Methods: We investigated 32 upper and lower urinary tract UCs with high MSI and 4 nonUC primary cancers in 9 patients. We used the high frequency and specificity of individual DNA mutations in these tumors (MSI at 17 loci) and the early timing of epigenetic events (methylation of 7 gene promoters) to investigate tumor clonality. Results: Molecular alterations varied among tumors from different primary organs but they appeared related in the UCs of all 9 patients. While 7 patients had a high degree of concordance among UCs, in 2 the UCs shared only a few similar alterations. Genetic and epigenetic abnormalities were frequently found in normal urothelial samples. Conclusions: Multiple UCs in each patient appeared to arise from a single clone. The molecular order of tumor development varied from the timing of clinical presentation and suggested that residual malignant cells persist in the urinary tract despite apparent curative surgery. These cells lead to subsequent tumor relapse and new methods are required to detect and eradicate them.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BLADDER-CANCER; URINARY-TRACT; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PROMOTER HYPERMETHYLATION; CARCINOMAS; PROGRESSION; SPREAD; bladder; bladder neoplasms; urothelium; microsatellite repeats; methylation |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Pathologie Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Urologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2021 07:07 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2021 07:07 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/34512 |
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