Thymidine phosphorylase expression and efficacy of adjuvant doxifluridine in advanced colorectal cancer patients
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- Published online on: April 1, 2005 https://doi.org/10.3892/or.13.4.621
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Abstract
To clarify the correlation between the expression level of thymidine phosphorylase (TP) and efficacy of doxifluridine (5'-DFUR) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), samples from 177 colorectal cancer patients who underwent curative resection were evaluated by immunohistochemical staining using a newly developed monoclonal antibody 1C6-203. Patients were randomly given either oral 5'-DFUR or 5-FU as postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. In Dukes' C staged colon cancer patients treated with 5'-DFUR, better survival was observed in the high TP patients than the low TP patients (p=0.025 by the log-rank test). The observed 5-year survival rates were 91.2 and 74.8%, respectively. No correlation between TP expression and patient prognosis was detected in the 5-FU group. In Dukes' C stage colon patients with high TP expression, the 5'-DFUR group had slightly better survival than the 5-FU group. These findings suggest that TP may be a chemosensitive marker for 5'-DFUR as postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for advanced colon cancer patients.