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Triple-high expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) may predict favorable prognosis for patients with Type I endometrial carcinoma

Yanfang Liang1✉, Bihua Lin2, Ziyu Ye2, Shasha Chen2, Haibo Yu2, Can Chen1, Xin Zhang3, Keyuan Zhou2, Jincheng Zeng2✉

1. Department of Pathology, Dongguan Hospital Affiliated to Medical College of Jinan University, The Fifth People's Hospital of Dongguan, Dongguan 523905, China
2. Dongguan Key Laboratory of Medical Bioactive Molecular Developmental and Translational Research, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
3. Clinical Experimental Center, Jiangmen Central Hospital, Affiliated Jiangmen Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Jiangmen 529030, China.

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Liang Y, Lin B, Ye Z, Chen S, Yu H, Chen C, Zhang X, Zhou K, Zeng J. Triple-high expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) may predict favorable prognosis for patients with Type I endometrial carcinoma. J Cancer 2020; 11(6):1436-1445. doi:10.7150/jca.33720. https://www.jcancer.org/v11p1436.htm
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Endometrial carcinoma (EC) is the most common malignant tumors in female derived from the endometrial epithelium. Several previous studies have described estrogen receptors (ER), progesterone Receptor (PR) and phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) are associated with clinicopathological factors and prognosis in EC patients. However, during EC patients follow-up, we found that some EC patients with down-regulation of PTEN, but up-regulation of ER or PR , and some EC patients with down-regulation of ER or PR, but up-regulation of PTEN also had a poor prognosis. Therefore, to reveal the prognosis of EC patients with different phenotypes based on PTEN, ER and PR expression, 120 cases formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded EC tissues and 543 cases uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC) patients from the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) UCEC datasets were analyzed. Results showed that EC tissues can be classified to PTENLERLPRL, PTENHERLPRL, PTENHERHPRH, PTENLERHPRH, PTENHERHPRL, PTENHERLPRH, and PTENLERHPRL phenotypes basing on IHC analysis. Additionally, EC patients with PTENLERLPRL showed high malignancy, while patients with PTENHERHPRH showed low malignancy. Therefore, combined detection of PTEN, ER, PR may help identify a small subset of EC with more aggressive behavior and may aid in risk stratification.

Keywords: Endometrial carcinoma, estrogen receptors, progesterone receptor, phosphatase and tensin homolog, prognosis


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Liang, Y., Lin, B., Ye, Z., Chen, S., Yu, H., Chen, C., Zhang, X., Zhou, K., Zeng, J. (2020). Triple-high expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) may predict favorable prognosis for patients with Type I endometrial carcinoma. Journal of Cancer, 11(6), 1436-1445. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.33720.

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Liang, Y.; Lin, B.; Ye, Z.; Chen, S.; Yu, H.; Chen, C.; Zhang, X.; Zhou, K.; Zeng, J. Triple-high expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) may predict favorable prognosis for patients with Type I endometrial carcinoma. J. Cancer 2020, 11 (6), 1436-1445. DOI: 10.7150/jca.33720.

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Liang Y, Lin B, Ye Z, Chen S, Yu H, Chen C, Zhang X, Zhou K, Zeng J. Triple-high expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) may predict favorable prognosis for patients with Type I endometrial carcinoma. J Cancer 2020; 11(6):1436-1445. doi:10.7150/jca.33720. https://www.jcancer.org/v11p1436.htm

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Liang Y, Lin B, Ye Z, Chen S, Yu H, Chen C, Zhang X, Zhou K, Zeng J. 2020. Triple-high expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) may predict favorable prognosis for patients with Type I endometrial carcinoma. J Cancer. 11(6):1436-1445.

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