title: Expression of sialyl-Tn antigen is correlated with survival time of patients with gastric carcinomas.
abstract: Expression of sialyl-Tn antigen (STN) was examined by an immunohistochemical method in 85 primary gastric carcinomas. The STN expression occurred in 53 (62.4%) cancers, and the positive staining was correlated with degree of gastric wall and lymph vessel invasion, lymph node metastasis, and stage of tumour. Five-year survival rates of patients with STN-positive cancers (47.2%) were significantly lower than those with STN-negative cancers (84.4%) (P < 0.01), and patients with STN-positive cancers at stage III and stage IV had a worse prognosis. In the cancers with serosal invasion, patients with STN-positive cancer disclosed a significantly poorer prognosis than those with STN-negative cancers (P < 0.01). Therefore, it is suggested that a careful follow-up study and intensive postoperative therapy are needed for patients with advanced gastric cancers with positive STN expression.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
authors.forename: X C
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Terata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jancic
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hosokawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hattori
mesh_terms: D015295:Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate / Q000032:analysis*; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D015996:Survival Rate
chemical_list: D015295:Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; C055491:sialosyl-Tn antigen