title: Microsatellite instability and ploidy status define three categories with distinctive prognostic impact in endometrioid endometrial cancer.
abstract: Microsatellite instability (MSI) and aneuploidy are inversely related phenomena. We tested whether ploidy status influences the clinical impact of MSI in endometrioid endometrial cancer (EEC). We analyzed 167 EECs for MSI and ploidy. Tumors were classified in three categories according to MSI and ploidy status. Associations with clinicopathological and molecular variables, survival, and treatment response were assessed. All MSI tumors (23%) were scored as diploid, and 14% of microsatellite stable (MSS) tumors presented aneuploidy. MSI tumors associated with older age at diagnosis, non-obesity, high histological grade, and advanced surgical stage. MSS-aneuploid tumors also associated with higher grade and advanced stage. In multivariate survival analysis MSI did not influence disease-free survival (DFS) or cancer-specific survival (CSS). However, when just diploid tumors were considered for the analysis, MSI significantly contributed to worse DFS and CSS, and the same was observed for aneuploidy when MSS tumors were analyzed alone. In diploid tumors, a differential response to postoperative radiotherapy (RT) was observed according to MSI, since it predicted poor DFS and CSS in the multivariate analysis. We conclude that ploidy status influences the clinical impact of MSI in EEC. Among diploid tumors those with MSI have poor clinical outcome and respond worse to RT.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Physiology Department, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, Institute for Biomedical and Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bilbao-Sieyro
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Physiology Department, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, Institute for Biomedical and Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramírez
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Physiology Department, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, Institute for Biomedical and Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Germán
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-González
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital Universitario Materno-Insular de Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Orlando
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Falcón
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Pathology Department, Hospital Universitario Materno-Insular de Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Laureano
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: León
authors.affiliation: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Physiology Department, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, Institute for Biomedical and Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Clinical Sciences Department, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, Institute for Biomedical and Health Research, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Leandro
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.affiliation: Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Physiology Department, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, Institute for Biomedical and Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Nicolás
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Díaz-Chico
authors.affiliation: Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC), Barcelona, Spain; Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (SBMRI), La Jolla, CA, USA; Instituciò Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluis Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perucho
authors.affiliation: Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Physiology Department, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, Institute for Biomedical and Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Díaz-Chico
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000782:Aneuploidy; D018269:Carcinoma, Endometrioid / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053842:Microsatellite Instability; D011379:Prognosis; D016019:Survival Analysis