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Saturday, May 26, 2012

PLoS ONE: Increased Expression of PITX2 Transcription Factor Contributes to Ovarian Cancer Progression (clear cell ovarian/high grade)



PLoS ONE: Increased Expression of PITX2 Transcription Factor Contributes to Ovarian Cancer Progression

"....According to FIGO grading classification, high-grade ovarian tumor cells are usually poorly histological differentiated [20], grow faster and highly metastatic [7]. In addition, prognosis of high-grade ovarian tumor is poor thereafter it often associates with poor survival rate [21], [22].The clear cell subtype ovarian cancer accounts for approximately 6% of all epithelial ovarian tumors and most cases of this subtype are high-grade tumor exhibiting an aggressive phenotype [3], [22], [23]. Our study showed that both mRNA and protein levels of PITX2 was frequently upregulated in ovarian cancer particularly in the high-grade and clear cell subtypes, indicating that PITX2may play an important role in driving aggressive phenotypes in ovarian cancer.....