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C-myc Oncogene Amplification and Cytometric DNA Ploidy Pattern As Prognostic Factors in Musculoskeletal Neoplasms

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Journal Int J Cancer
Specialty Oncology
Date 1994 Sep 15
PMID 7927868
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Abstract

The relationship between c-myc oncogene amplification in neoplastic cells as determined by means of Southern-blot analysis, and their nuclear DNA content as assessed by combined flow and image cytometry, was investigated in fresh tumor specimens from 33 patients with musculoskeletal neoplasms. Amplification, without rearrangement of the c-myc proto-oncogene, was detected in 4 out of 7 bone sarcomas and in 6 out of 26 soft-tissue sarcomas, but in none of 3 benign giant-cell bone tumors. Among the 10 cases with c-myc amplification, 2 were found to be cytometrically DNA diploid, 2 DNA tetraploid, and 6 DNA aneuploid. Conversely, there were 10 tumors displaying extremely aneuploid DNA patterns without c-myc oncogene amplification. Thus, there was no relationship between c-myc amplification and DNA ploidy; neither did the percentage of S-phase cells, as determined by means of image cytometry, correlate significantly with the occurrence of c-myc amplification. A surprising sex-bias was observed; all 6 cases of c-myc-amplified soft-tissue sarcomas occurred in females, whereas none of the 11 males with such sarcomas showed this amplification. When the clinical follow-up data of the patients were scrutinized, it was found that the DNA ploidy pattern of the neoplastic cell nuclei, in combination with the S-phase values, as well as the occurrence of c-myc amplification, yielded prognostic information, being statistically significant 2 years after the diagnosis.

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