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Multicenter clinical validation of PITX2 methylation as a prostate specific antigen recurrence predictor in patients with post-radical prostatectomy prostate cancer.

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Bañez, LL; Sun, L; van Leenders, GJ; Wheeler, TM; Bangma, CH; Freedland, SJ; Ittmann, MM; Lark, AL; Madden, JF; Hartman, A; Weiss, G ...
Published in: J Urol
July 2010

PURPOSE: Radical prostatectomy is potentially curative in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer. However, biochemical recurrence affects 15% to 30% of men who undergo radical prostatectomy. We previously reported the prognostic potential of PITX2 gene promoter methylation using conventional assays. In the current study we validated PITX2 methylation status as a biochemical recurrence predictor after radical prostatectomy using a novel microarray based platform in a multi-institutional setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS: PITX2 methylation status was assessed in formalin fixed, paraffin embedded prostatectomy tumor tissue samples from 476 patients from a total of 4 institutions on customized EpiChip PITX2 microarrays. Associations between PITX2 methylation and biochemical recurrence were assessed using the log rank test and Cox regression controlling for prostate cancer features. RESULTS: On multivariate analysis men with high methylation status were at significantly higher risk for biochemical recurrence than those with low methylation status (HR 3.0, 95% CI 2.0-4.5, p <10(-5)). The biochemical recurrence-free survival rate 5 years after surgery was 85% and 61% in the low and high methylation groups, respectively. In men with pathological Gleason 7 tumors the relative risk of biochemical recurrence was twice as high for high than for low PITX2 methylation (HR 2.0, 95% CI 1.2-3.3, p = 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: PITX2 methylation status assessed by EpiChip PITX2 identifies patients with prostate cancer who are most likely to have biochemical recurrence. This test independently adds to the prognostic information provided by standard clinicopathological analysis, improving prostatectomy case stratification into those at high and low risk for biochemical recurrence. This new clinical tool would be of particular benefit to assess intermediate risk cases (Gleason 7) in which risk stratification remains a challenge.

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J Urol

DOI

EISSN

1527-3792

Publication Date

July 2010

Volume

184

Issue

1

Start / End Page

149 / 156

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Urology & Nephrology
  • Transcription Factors
  • Survival Rate
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Prostatic Neoplasms
  • Prostatectomy
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen
  • Proportional Hazards Models
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Prognosis
 

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Bañez, L. L., Sun, L., van Leenders, G. J., Wheeler, T. M., Bangma, C. H., Freedland, S. J., … Castaños-Vélez, E. (2010). Multicenter clinical validation of PITX2 methylation as a prostate specific antigen recurrence predictor in patients with post-radical prostatectomy prostate cancer. J Urol, 184(1), 149–156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2010.03.012
Bañez, Lionel L., Leon Sun, Geert J. van Leenders, Thomas M. Wheeler, Chris H. Bangma, Stephen J. Freedland, Michael M. Ittmann, et al. “Multicenter clinical validation of PITX2 methylation as a prostate specific antigen recurrence predictor in patients with post-radical prostatectomy prostate cancer.J Urol 184, no. 1 (July 2010): 149–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2010.03.012.
Bañez LL, Sun L, van Leenders GJ, Wheeler TM, Bangma CH, Freedland SJ, et al. Multicenter clinical validation of PITX2 methylation as a prostate specific antigen recurrence predictor in patients with post-radical prostatectomy prostate cancer. J Urol. 2010 Jul;184(1):149–56.
Bañez, Lionel L., et al. “Multicenter clinical validation of PITX2 methylation as a prostate specific antigen recurrence predictor in patients with post-radical prostatectomy prostate cancer.J Urol, vol. 184, no. 1, July 2010, pp. 149–56. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.juro.2010.03.012.
Bañez LL, Sun L, van Leenders GJ, Wheeler TM, Bangma CH, Freedland SJ, Ittmann MM, Lark AL, Madden JF, Hartman A, Weiss G, Castaños-Vélez E. Multicenter clinical validation of PITX2 methylation as a prostate specific antigen recurrence predictor in patients with post-radical prostatectomy prostate cancer. J Urol. 2010 Jul;184(1):149–156.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Urol

DOI

EISSN

1527-3792

Publication Date

July 2010

Volume

184

Issue

1

Start / End Page

149 / 156

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Urology & Nephrology
  • Transcription Factors
  • Survival Rate
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Prostatic Neoplasms
  • Prostatectomy
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen
  • Proportional Hazards Models
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Prognosis