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Nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid ploidy in squamous cell bladder cancer.

Journal of Urology 1989 Februrary
Flow cytometric analysis of nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid content was performed on 76 primary squamous cell bladder carcinomas treated between January 1970 and December 1975. Patients were followed for a median of 10.1 years. Nuclei were extracted from paraffin-embedded archival material and isolated nuclei were stained with propidium iodide. Of the 76 tumors 73 were evaluable by flow cytometry providing high quality deoxyribonucleic acid histograms: 27 (37 per cent) showed a deoxyribonucleic acid diploid or normal pattern, 17 (23 per cent) exhibited a significant increase in the 4C peak (deoxyribonucleic acid tetraploid) and 29 (40 per cent) showed a distinct aneuploid peak. High grade (grades 3 and 4) and high stage (stages T2 to T4) tumors had a significantly higher incidence of abnormal (either tetraploid or aneuploid) deoxyribonucleic acid patterns than low grade (grades 1 and 2) and low stage (stages Tis/Ta/T1) tumors (p less than 0.005). The 5 and 10-year rate free of disease for patients with deoxyribonucleic acid diploid tumors was 67 per cent compared to 22 and 18 per cent, respectively, for patients with tumors showing abnormal ploidy patterns (p less than 0.0005). At 5 and 10 years after diagnosis an estimated 18 per cent of the patients with deoxyribonucleic acid diploid tumors will die of bladder cancer. In contrast, an estimated 53 per cent of the patients with tetraploid tumors and 82 per cent and 86 per cent of those with aneuploid tumors will die of squamous cell bladder carcinoma by 5 and 10 years after diagnosis (p less than 0.0001). These results demonstrate that nuclear deoxyribonucleic ploidy measured by flow cytometry is an important objective prognostic variable for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder.

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