Prognostic value of CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry in combination with cytology for detecting tumor cells in peritoneal lavage in gastric cancer

Qu, Linlin; He, Liang; Jia, Zhifang; Wang, Quan

doi:10.7150/jca.47113

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Prognostic value of CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry in combination with cytology for detecting tumor cells in peritoneal lavage in gastric cancer

Linlin Qu¹, Liang He², Zhifang Jia³, Quan Wang^2✉

1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin, China;
2. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin, China;
3. Department of Clinical Research, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin, China.

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Qu L, He L, Jia Z, Wang Q. Prognostic value of CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry in combination with cytology for detecting tumor cells in peritoneal lavage in gastric cancer. J Cancer 2020; 11(21):6319-6325. doi:10.7150/jca.47113. https://www.jcancer.org/v11p6319.htm

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Aim: To study the value and efficiency of CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry in detecting free tumor cells from peritoneal lavage, in order to provide reliable lab information for subsequent intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Methods: A total of 112 progressive gastric cancer patients were enrolled from Oct. 2016 to Oct 2017, who were pathologically diagnosed as gastric cancer after surgery. Peritoneal lavage was respectively collected during operation. Cytology and CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry of peritoneal lavage samples was performed. Overall survival and recurrence free survival was analyzed. Results: Cytology showed 16 positive cases (14.29%), CEA immunohistochemistry showed 29 positive cases (25.89%), CA72-4 immunohistochemistry showed 33 positive cases (29.46%). McNemar's test showed significant difference in positivity between cytology (CY+) and CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry (IHC+). Kappa test showed consistency between immunohistochemistry of CEA and CA72-4 with cytology. Patients with CY+/IHC+ had the poorest overall survival (OS) as well as recurrence free survival (RFS), followed by those with CY+ or IHC+, while those with CY-/IHC- had higher OS and RFS. The differences of OS and RFS in IHC+ group were worse than that in IHC- group. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that positive CEA/CA72-4 IHC revealed poorer prognosis than the negative cases. Conclusions: Due to the limitation of cytology, combination of cytology and immunohistochemistry appears to be more efficient for predicting prognosis of progressive gastric cancer.

Keywords: Gastric Cancer, Peritoneal Lavage, Metastasis, Prognosis, Immunohistochemistry.

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Qu, L., He, L., Jia, Z., Wang, Q. (2020). Prognostic value of CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry in combination with cytology for detecting tumor cells in peritoneal lavage in gastric cancer. Journal of Cancer, 11(21), 6319-6325. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.47113.

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Qu, L.; He, L.; Jia, Z.; Wang, Q. Prognostic value of CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry in combination with cytology for detecting tumor cells in peritoneal lavage in gastric cancer. J. Cancer 2020, 11 (21), 6319-6325. DOI: 10.7150/jca.47113.

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Qu L, He L, Jia Z, Wang Q. 2020. Prognostic value of CEA/CA72-4 immunohistochemistry in combination with cytology for detecting tumor cells in peritoneal lavage in gastric cancer. J Cancer. 11(21):6319-6325.

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