The 5-year survival rate in resectable patients with esophageal cancer is only 20% to 36%. Regional relapse and distant metastasis are responsible for the failure of treatment and the majority of cancer-related deaths. Earlier detection of metastases, especially micrometastases, has the potential for more accurate risk stratification in subsequent therapy decisions. No effective techniques have...

Colorectal cancer remains one of the major cancer- related deaths despite progress in the treatment during past decades. Detection of disease at earlier stages reduces its mortality. The aim of current study was to investigate expression of Cytokeratin 19 (CK19), Cytokeratin 20 (CK20) and Guanylyl Cyclase C (GCC) mRNA in peripheral blood of non- metastatic colorectal cancer patients which may r...

Analysis of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) by means of One-Step Nucleic Acid Amplification (OSNA) is gaining widespread use as a quick and accurate method. This assay detects the expression level of cytokeratin 19 (CK19) which is present in some but not all breast tumors. In this study, the clinical significance of negative CK19 was investigated in 219 cases of primary breast cancer. In 179 patien...

Cytokeratin 19 fragment (CK19) levels in serum have already been documented as a useful tumour marker for lung cancer. In the present study, it was hypothesized that CK19 may be increased in the serum and epithelial lining fluid of the respiratory tract from patients with pulmonary fibrosis. CK19 was measured in the serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of patients with pulmonary fibros...

The cytologic diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma is straightforward in most instances. However, there are some mimics including goitrous nodules and Hurthle cell neoplasms. Many studies have shown the combination of HBME-1 and CK19 expression to be useful in reaching a correct histologic diagnosis on tissue sections. We aim to assess the value of these markers in the setting of cell block...

BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated the pathologic types and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with lymph node metastasis (LNM). The purpose was to explore pathologic types and pertinent therapy of HCC with LNM. METHODS An immunohistochemical study for CK19 and OV-6 was performed on tissue microarrays of HCC with LNM (n=47) and those without LNM (n=125). The clinicopathologic f...

BACKGROUND High risk human papillomavirus (HR HPV) infects cells at the squamocolumnar junction (SCJ) of the cervix, causing cancer. Cytokeratin (CK)7 is an SCJ marker, and stains cervical neoplasia. CK19 is a binding partner of CK7 and expressed in cervical cancer. Despite this possible association between CK7/CK19 and cervical cancer, not much is known about the mechanism of CK7/CK19 involvem...

Breast carcinoma is the major cause of cancer-related death in women. The incidence of this carcinoma is rising and there are many attempts to decrease this problem. The aim of this study was detection of full-length cytokeratin 19 (CK19) mRNA, in peripheral blood and tissue of breast cancer patients in early stage of cancer. In this study, RT-PCR (reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reactio...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the expression and differential diagnostic significance of CK19, TG, Ki67 and galectin-3 in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) (metastatic and non metastatic), follicular adenoma and nodular goiter in patients from the northeastern part of China. METHODS 441 PTC specimens and 151 other benign thyroid specimens (97 cases of nodular goiter, 54 cases of nonmalignant follicu...

AIMS To evaluate CK19, RET, galectin-3 and HBME-1 expression in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and to evaluate their diagnostic significance. METHODS 155 PTC specimens and 83 other diseased-thyroid specimens were collected. Immunohistochemistry for CK19, RET, galectin-3 and HBME-1 was performed. RESULTS The 155 PTC cases were classified into eight variants according to the WHO classifica...