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. 2023 May;9(3):208-222.
doi: 10.1002/cjp2.311. Epub 2023 Mar 22.

p53 and ovarian carcinoma survival: an Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis consortium study

Martin Köbel  1 Eun-Young Kang  1 Ashley Weir  2   3   4 Peter F Rambau  1   5 Cheng-Han Lee  6 Gregg S Nelson  7 Prafull Ghatage  7 Nicola S Meagher  2   8 Marjorie J Riggan  9 Jennifer Alsop  10 Michael S Anglesio  11   12 Matthias W Beckmann  13 Christiani Bisinotto  14 Michelle Boisen  15 Jessica Boros  16   17   18 Alison H Brand  17   18 Angela Brooks-Wilson  19 Michael E Carney  20 Penny Coulson  21 Madeleine Courtney-Brooks  15 Kara L Cushing-Haugen  22 Cezary Cybulski  23 Suha Deen  24 Mona A El-Bahrawy  25 Esther Elishaev  26 Ramona Erber  27 Sian Fereday  28   29 AOCS Group  16   28   30 Anna Fischer  31 Simon A Gayther  32 Arantzazu Barquin-Garcia  33 Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj  34 C Blake Gilks  35 Helena Gronwald  36 Marcel Grube  37 Paul R Harnett  18   38 Holly R Harris  22   39 Andreas D Hartkopf  37   40 Arndt Hartmann  27 Alexander Hein  13 Joy Hendley  28 Brenda Y Hernandez  41 Yajue Huang  42 Anna Jakubowska  23   43 Mercedes Jimenez-Linan  44 Michael E Jones  21 Catherine J Kennedy  16   17   18 Tomasz Kluz  45 Jennifer M Koziak  46 Jaime Lesnock  15 Jenny Lester  47 Jan Lubiński  23 Teri A Longacre  48 Maria Lycke  49 Constantina Mateoiu  50 Bryan M McCauley  51 Valerie McGuire  52 Britta Ney  31 Alexander Olawaiye  15 Sandra Orsulic  47 Ana Osorio  53   54 Luis Paz-Ares  55   56 Teresa Ramón Y Cajal  57 Joseph H Rothstein  58   59 Matthias Ruebner  13 Minouk J Schoemaker  21 Mitul Shah  10 Raghwa Sharma  60 Mark E Sherman  61 Yurii B Shvetsov  41 Naveena Singh  35 Helen Steed  62   63 Sarah J Storr  64 Aline Talhouk  11   12 Nadia Traficante  28   29 Chen Wang  65 Alice S Whittemore  52   66 Martin Widschwendter  67 Lynne R Wilkens  41 Stacey J Winham  65 Javier Benitez  54   68 Andrew Berchuck  9 David D Bowtell  28   29 Francisco J Candido Dos Reis  14 Ian Campbell  28   29 Linda S Cook  69   70 Anna DeFazio  8   16   17   18 Jennifer A Doherty  71 Peter A Fasching  13 Renée T Fortner  72   73 María J García  74 Marc T Goodman  75 Ellen L Goode  51 Jacek Gronwald  23 David G Huntsman  11   76 Beth Y Karlan  47 Linda E Kelemen  77 Stefan Kommoss  37 Nhu D Le  78 Stewart G Martin  64 Usha Menon  34 Francesmary Modugno  15   79   80 Paul Dp Pharoah  10   81   82 Joellen M Schildkraut  83 Weiva Sieh  58   59 Annette Staebler  31 Karin Sundfeldt  84 Anthony J Swerdlow  21   85 Susan J Ramus  2   3 James D Brenton  86
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p53 and ovarian carcinoma survival: an Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis consortium study

Martin Köbel et al. J Pathol Clin Res. 2023 May.

Abstract

Our objective was to test whether p53 expression status is associated with survival for women diagnosed with the most common ovarian carcinoma histotypes (high-grade serous carcinoma [HGSC], endometrioid carcinoma [EC], and clear cell carcinoma [CCC]) using a large multi-institutional cohort from the Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis (OTTA) consortium. p53 expression was assessed on 6,678 cases represented on tissue microarrays from 25 participating OTTA study sites using a previously validated immunohistochemical (IHC) assay as a surrogate for the presence and functional effect of TP53 mutations. Three abnormal expression patterns (overexpression, complete absence, and cytoplasmic) and the normal (wild type) pattern were recorded. Survival analyses were performed by histotype. The frequency of abnormal p53 expression was 93.4% (4,630/4,957) in HGSC compared to 11.9% (116/973) in EC and 11.5% (86/748) in CCC. In HGSC, there were no differences in overall survival across the abnormal p53 expression patterns. However, in EC and CCC, abnormal p53 expression was associated with an increased risk of death for women diagnosed with EC in multivariate analysis compared to normal p53 as the reference (hazard ratio [HR] = 2.18, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.36-3.47, p = 0.0011) and with CCC (HR = 1.57, 95% CI 1.11-2.22, p = 0.012). Abnormal p53 was also associated with shorter overall survival in The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage I/II EC and CCC. Our study provides further evidence that functional groups of TP53 mutations assessed by abnormal surrogate p53 IHC patterns are not associated with survival in HGSC. In contrast, we validate that abnormal p53 IHC is a strong independent prognostic marker for EC and demonstrate for the first time an independent prognostic association of abnormal p53 IHC with overall survival in patients with CCC.

Keywords: TP53; clear cell; endometrioid; high-grade serous carcinoma; ovarian cancer; p53; prognosis.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) p53 IHC patterns. (B) Kaplan‐Meier survival analyses of the three abnormal p53 IHC patterns in HGSC. (C) Kaplan‐Meier survival analyses of abnormal p53 versus normal p53 in EC. (D) Kaplan‐Meier survival analyses of abnormal p53 versus normal p53 in CCC.
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Figure 2
EC: stage‐stratified Kaplan‐Meier survival analyses. (A) By abnormal versus normal p53 at low FIGO stage (I/II) without residual disease. (B) By grade at low FIGO stage (I/II) without residual disease. (C) Abnormal versus normal p53 at high FIGO stage (III/IV). (D) By combined grade and abnormal versus normal p53 at low FIGO stage (I/II) without residual disease.
Figure 3
Figure 3
CCC: stage‐stratified Kaplan‐Meier survival analyses. (A) Abnormal p53 versus normal p53 at low FIGO stage (I/II) without residual disease. (B) Abnormal p53 versus normal p53 at high FIGO stage (III/IV).
Figure 4
Figure 4
Association of p53 IHC patterns with TP53 mRNA expression, including all histotypes.

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