TY - JOUR
T1 - Flow cytometric evaluation of epithelial ovarian cancer
AU - Barnabei, Vanessa M.
AU - Miller, David Scott
AU - Bauer, Kenneth D.
AU - Murad, Tariq M.
AU - Rademaker, Alfred W.
AU - Lurain, John R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported in part by American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Career Development Award No. 87-101 and Biomedical Research Support Grant No. RR-05370, United States Public Health Ser-vice, National Institutes of Health, to D. S. M.
PY - 1990/6
Y1 - 1990/6
N2 - We investigated the prognostic significance of deoxyribonucleic acid content and proliferative activity of tumor cell populations as measured by flow cytometry of the tumor specimens from 115 women with epithelial ovarian cancer. Deoxyribonucleic acid aneuploidy was found in 87 of 115 (76%) of these cancers with a mean deoxyribonucleic acid index of 1.6 and S-phase fraction of 14.7%. The S-phase fraction of the 28 (24%) diploid tumors was 7.0%. Deoxyribonucleic acid ploidy was significantly correlated with survival. S-phase fraction was significantly correlated with ploidy, residual tumor, histology, grade, ascites, time to recurrence, and survival. Diploidy versus aneuploidy were the best discriminating values for deoxyribonucleic acid index and an S-phase fraction of greater or less than 18% for that parameter. Multivariate analysis revealed stage, S-phase fraction, residual tumor, and grade to be independently associated with time to recurrence, and stage, age, S-phase fraction, and largest metastases were factors associated with survival. Deoxyribonucleic acid ploidy did not significantly improve either model. These results suggest that abnormalities of deoxyribonucleic acid content and the proliferative activity of tumor cell populations are reflective of their biologic activity.
AB - We investigated the prognostic significance of deoxyribonucleic acid content and proliferative activity of tumor cell populations as measured by flow cytometry of the tumor specimens from 115 women with epithelial ovarian cancer. Deoxyribonucleic acid aneuploidy was found in 87 of 115 (76%) of these cancers with a mean deoxyribonucleic acid index of 1.6 and S-phase fraction of 14.7%. The S-phase fraction of the 28 (24%) diploid tumors was 7.0%. Deoxyribonucleic acid ploidy was significantly correlated with survival. S-phase fraction was significantly correlated with ploidy, residual tumor, histology, grade, ascites, time to recurrence, and survival. Diploidy versus aneuploidy were the best discriminating values for deoxyribonucleic acid index and an S-phase fraction of greater or less than 18% for that parameter. Multivariate analysis revealed stage, S-phase fraction, residual tumor, and grade to be independently associated with time to recurrence, and stage, age, S-phase fraction, and largest metastases were factors associated with survival. Deoxyribonucleic acid ploidy did not significantly improve either model. These results suggest that abnormalities of deoxyribonucleic acid content and the proliferative activity of tumor cell populations are reflective of their biologic activity.
KW - DNA flow cytometry
KW - S-phase fraction
KW - ovarian cancer
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9378(90)90924-V
DO - 10.1016/0002-9378(90)90924-V
M3 - Article
C2 - 2360592
AN - SCOPUS:0025337363
SN - 0002-9378
VL - 162
SP - 1584
EP - 1592
JO - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
JF - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
IS - 6
ER -
