title: [Clinical study on epidermal growth factor and its receptor in human gastric cancer].
abstract: We detect the expression of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in 104 specimens of gastric cancer by avidin biotin-peroxides complex technique (ABC). The positive rates of EGF, EGFR and synchronous EGF and EGFR were 35.6%, 42.3%, 30.8% respectively. The positive expression of EGF and EGFR to gastric cancer tissue was inclined to occur in patients who were in advanced stages, of poorly-differentiated types, Borrmann III, IV types, scirrhous type, seroinvasive type or lymph node metastasic types. The survival rates at 1, 3, 5 years after gastrectomy in the patients with expression of EGF were significantly lower than the survival rates of the patients with negative expression (P < 0.05). The patients with synchronous expression of EGF and EGFR had the worst prognosis. After gastrectomy, all of them died within 4 years. It is indicated that EGF and EGFR could serve as biological indicators of gastric cancer malignancy and an index for evaluating, the prognosis of the patients with gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Third Affiliated Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing.
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: L Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: J Q
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor / Q000032:analysis*; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D015996:Survival Rate
chemical_list: D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor; D066246:ErbB Receptors