Abstract
We investigated 230 systematically sampled fresh specimens from 12 early and 26 advanced gastric cancer patients by DNA flow cytometry for heterogeneity in DNA content. Fifty-eight percent of the 12 early gastric cancers were uniformly diploid and 42% were uniformly aneuploid. Fifty-four percent of advanced cancers were uniformly diploid in superficial layers and 42% were uniformly diploid in deep layers, whereas 46% were uniformly aneuploid in superficial layers, and 50% were uniformly aneuploid and 8% were heterogeneously aneuploid and diploid in deep layers. Both diploid and aneuploid samples were obtained from 15% for advanced cancers, but ploidy heterogeneity did not occur in early cancers. Heterogeneity for DNA index (more than one aneuploid DNA index) occurred in 46% of whole thickness of advanced cancers, in 19% of superficial layers of advanced cancers, and in 8% of early cancers. We concluded that DNA ploidy determination using superficial layer specimens may be reliable in early gastric cancer but must be interpreted with care in advanced cancer.
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