High incidences of DNA ploidy abnormalities in tongue squamous cell carcinoma of young patients: an international collaborative study
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2011-06-01
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Santos Silva, Alan Roger
Prado Ribeiro, Ana Carolina
Soubhia, Ana Maria Pires [UNESP]
Miyahara, Glauco Issamu [UNESP]
Carlos, Roman
Speight, Paul M.
Hunter, Keith D.
Torres Rendon, Alica
Vargas, Pablo Agustin
Lopes, Marcio Ajudarte
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Wiley-Blackwell
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Aims: This multi-centre analysis assessed the DNA content of TSCC in 37 young patients (<40 years) and 28 old patients (>50 years) and determined the correlation of DNA ploidy findings with clinicopathological data.Methods and results: Image cytometry was carried out using an automated cellular imaging system on Feulgen-stained histological sections to obtain high-fidelity DNA histograms. Among young patients, 37.8% were females compared to 18.7% in the older group (P = 0.002). In total, 48.6% patients were non-smokers and 40.5% were non-drinkers compared to 10.7% non-smokers and non-drinkers in the older group (P < 0.0001). TNM, clinical stage of disease and histological grade of differentiation did not differ between groups. Tumour aneuploidy was detected in 86.5% and tetraploidy in 24.3% young patients; this was significantly greater than in the older group where 64.3% were aneuploid (P < 0.0001) and 7.2% tetraploid (P < 0.0001). The mean values of DNA index (DI) and DNA heterogeneity index as well as the percentage of cells with DI exceeding 5N were higher in young patients (P < 0.0001).Conclusions: Young patients with TSCC represent a distinct clinical entity. The high incidence of DNA ploidy abnormalities suggest that they may have increased genomic instability and indicates underlying genetic differences between TSCC in young and older patients.
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aneuploidy, DNA-image cytometry, squamous cell carcinoma, tongue cancer, young adults
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Histopathology. Malden: Wiley-blackwell, v. 58, n. 7, p. 1127-1135, 2011.