Abstract
Introduction: Even among low grade bladder tumors, there are some which have been found to carry bad prognosis for progression, recurrence and survival. Accurately pinpointing these cases at the time of diagnosis just with the help of routine histopathology is problematic. Ki-67 immunostaining may potentially be of help in identifying such cases, making administration of additional treatment modalities like chemotherapy and radiotherapy possible. There is scarcity of such studies in our country. The present study aims to correlate Ki-67 labeling index with the histopathological type and grade, pathological stage and mitotic index of urinary bladder tumors. Objective: Objective of the study is to consider the possibility of using Ki-67 labeling index to identify those low grade urinary bladder tumors which carry bad prognosis. Materials and Methods: All trans-uretheral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) specimens in our institute were analyzed for their histopathological grade, pathological stage, mitotic index and Ki-67 labeling index in the period extending from from August 2015 to December 2016. The clinical data were analyzed retrospectively and statistically. SPSS Version 23 (SPSS Inc.,Chicago, IL, USA) software was utilized for all statistical analyses. Chi-square analysis was utilized for comparison of groups. Results with P Results: Ki-67 expression in Low grade urothelial carcinoma (LGUC) showed variation from 1.4% to 41%. The papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential (PUNLMP) cases showed variation from 16 -17%. And the only case of transitional cell papilloma in the study was found to have expression of 9%.Conclusion: Cases of high (more than 20%) Ki-67 MIB-1 labeling index can be segregated even from among those cases with low histopathological grade, low mitotic index and pTa histopathological stage. Such cases are candidates for multimodality treatment including radiotherapy, chemotherapy etc. Keywords: Bladder tumors,
Highlights
Even among low grade bladder tumors, there are some which have been found to carry bad prognosis for progression, recurrence and survival
The histopathological grade of bladder tumors is usually critical in determining the clinical management and prognosis of patients
The genetic locus of Ki-67 has been assigned to chromosome 10. It has been shown by several studies that cell proliferative activity as defined by Ki-67 labeling index correlates with the tumor growth fraction
Summary
Even among low grade bladder tumors, there are some which have been found to carry bad prognosis for progression, recurrence and survival. Pinpointing these cases at the time of diagnosis just with the help of routine histopathology is problematic. Objective: Objective of the study is to consider the possibility of using Ki-67 labeling index to identify those low grade urinary bladder tumors which carry bad prognosis. It has been seen that even among low grade bladder tumors, there are some which carry bad prognosis for progression, recurrence and survival Segregating these cases with the help of routine histopathology is problematic.
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