The prognostic value of erythrocyte polyamines in the preoperative evaluation of patients with renal cell carcinoma

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• 作者：Giovanni Lughezzani ; Pierre I. Karakiewicz ; Pierre Bigot ; Paul Perrotte ; Maxime Cré ; pel ; Nathalie Rioux-Leclercq ; Vé ; ronique Catros-Quemener ; Jean-Philippe Moulinoux ; Franç ; oise Bouet ; Ber
• 关键词：Renal cell carcinoma ; Nephrectomy ; Circulating polyamines ; Spermine ; Spermidine ; Survival
• 刊名：European Journal of Cancer
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：July 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：46
• 期：10
• 页码：1927-1935
• 全文大小：439 K

文摘

Introduction

Polyamines, spermine and spermidine, are ubiquitous polycationic structures, which are essential for cell proliferation and differentiation. We tested whether spermine and spermidine could improve the prognostic ability of six established preoperative predictors of cancer-specific mortality (CSM) after partial or radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Materials and methods

Overall, 385 patients with clinical stages T_1–3, M_0–1 RCC were treated with radical or partial nephrectomy at a single institution between 1990 and 2007. Kaplan–Meier plots depicted CSM after stratification according to spermine and spermidine levels (dichotomised to above and below the median value). Univariable and multivariable Cox regression models tested the prognostic ability of continuously coded spermine and spermidine levels in preoperative CSM predictions. Covariates consisted of pre-treatment T stage, M stage, age, gender and symptom classification.

Results

The 5-year CSM-free survival of patients with spermine levels 4.5 and >4.5 nmol/8 × 10⁹ erythrocytes were, respectively, 79.5 % and 65.0 % . Similarly, the 5-year CSM-free survival of patients with spermidine levels 9.0 and > 9.0 nmol/8 × 10⁹ erythrocytes were, respectively, 81.1 % and 63.7 % . In multivariable analyses addressing CSM after surgery, both spermine (p  0.002) and spermidine (p  0.001) achieved independent predictor status and improved the accuracy of established preoperative CSM predictors by 2.1 % (p < 0.001).

Conclusions

Circulating polyamine levels may significantly improve the prognostic value of established determinants of CSM in patients with RCC of all stages prior to nephrectomy. External validation of our findings is required prior to implementation in clinical practice.