Abstract
To investigate the value of DNA ploidy and S-phase fraction (SPF) as factors that could predict response and outcome of invasive transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder to neoadjuvant methotrexate, vinblastine, epirubicin and cisplatin (MVEC) chemotherapy. Twenty-four patients with localized invasive TCC of the bladder (stages T3 to T4a, NoMo) were treated with neoadjuvant MVEC chemotherapy. DNA flow cytometry was performed in paraffin-embedded tissue obtained by transurethral resection before chemotherapy. Radical cystectomy specimens were utilized for complete pathologic staging. The tumors were subdivided into high- and low-SPF tumors according to their SPF value. DNA ploidy status was evaluated into two groups (diploidy and nondiploidy). DNA ploidy was not correlated to the response to chemotherapy (p = 0.67), and overall or disease-free survival (p = 0.27 and p = 0.69, respectively). Major response (pathologic complete response and partial response) was more often found in the high SPF group than among tumors with low SPF (p = 0.02). High SPF tumors were significantly associated with increased overall and disease-free survival (p = 0.0056 and p = 0.0059, respectively). A high SPF, but not DNA ploidy, may be helpful to identify patient likely to respond and survive longer following neoadjuvant MVEC chemotherapy in the treatment of invasive bladder cancer.
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