Relationship between tumour PTEN/Akt/COX-2 expression, inflammatory response and survival in patients with colorectal cancer

Roseweir, Antonia K., Powell, Arfon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3740-8275, Bennett, Lindsay, Van Wyk, Hester C., Park, James, McMillan, Donald C., Horgan, Paul G. and Edwards, Joanne 2016. Relationship between tumour PTEN/Akt/COX-2 expression, inflammatory response and survival in patients with colorectal cancer. Oncotarget 7 (43) , pp. 70601-70612. 10.18632/oncotarget.12134

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Abstract

In patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), local and systemic inflammatory responses have been extensively reported to associate with cancer survival. However, the specific signalling pathways responsible for inflammatory responses are not clear. The PTEN/Akt pathway is a plausible candidate as it may play a role in mediating inflammation via COX-2, and has been associated with cancer progression. This study therefore examined the relationship between tumour PTEN/Akt/COX-2 expression, inflammatory responses and survival in CRC patients using a tissue microarray. In 201 CRC patients, activation of tumour-specific PTEN/Akt significantly associated with poorer CSS (12.0yrs v 7.3yrs, P=0.032), poorer differentiation (P=0.032), venous invasion (P=0.008) and peritoneal involvement (P=0.004). Patients were stratified for peri-nuclear expression of COX-2 to examine associations with inflammatory responses. In patients with absent peri-nuclear COX-2 expression, activation of tumour-specific PTEN/Akt significantly associated with poorer CSS (11.9yrs v 5.4yrs, P=0.001), poorer differentiation (P=0.018), venous invasion (P=0.003) and peritoneal involvement (P=0.001). However, no associations were seen with either the local or systemic inflammatory responses. In CRC patients, tumour-specific PTEN/Akt pathway activation was significantly associated with poorer CSS, particularly when peri-nuclear COX-2 expression was absent. However, activation of the PTEN/Akt pathway appears not to be responsible for the regulation of inflammatory responses.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	colorectal cancer, PTEN, Akt, COX-2, inflammation
Publisher:	Impact Journals LLC
ISSN:	1949-2553
Funders:	Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 November 2016
Date of Acceptance:	4 September 2016
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 23:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/96435

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