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The role of SPINK1 in ETS rearrangement-negative prostate cancersScott A Tomlins
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Cancer Cell 13:519-28. 2008..We identified the aggressive 22RV1 cell line as a SPINK1 outlier expression model and demonstrate that SPINK1 knockdown in 22RV1 attenuates invasion, suggesting a functional role in ETS rearrangement-negative prostate cancers...
Expression profiling of human renal carcinomas with functional taxonomic analysisMichael A Gieseg
Pfizer Global Research and Development, 2800 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 3:26. 2002..Nucleic acid array-based technologies extend molecular characterization of tumors to thousands of gene products. To effectively discriminate between tumor sub-types, reliable laboratory techniques and analytic methods are required...
Use of laser capture microdissection, cDNA microarrays, and tissue microarrays in advancing our understanding of prostate cancerM A Rubin
Department of Pathology, Urology, and the Comprehensive Cancer and Geriatrics Center of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Pathol 195:80-6. 2001..This review will concentrate on the application of laser capture microdissection, cDNA microarrays, and tissue microarrays in the area of prostate cancer research...
Rapid ("warm") autopsy study for procurement of metastatic prostate cancerM A Rubin
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
Clin Cancer Res 6:1038-45. 2000..The development and expansion of this program represent a valuable resource for molecular and clinical researchers...
Should a Gleason score be assigned to a minute focus of carcinoma on prostate biopsy?M A Rubin
Department of Pathology of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 0054, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 24:1634-40. 2000..To properly convey this uncertainty to clinicians, a cautionary note should accompany Gleason scores derived from a minimal focus of carcinoma...
alpha-Methylacyl coenzyme A racemase as a tissue biomarker for prostate cancerMark A Rubin
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0602, USA
JAMA 287:1662-70. 2002..Molecular profiling of prostate cancer has led to the identification of candidate biomarkers and regulatory genes. Discoveries from these genome-scale approaches may have applicability in the analysis of diagnostic prostate specimens...
Tissue microarray sampling strategy for prostate cancer biomarker analysisMark A Rubin
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0054, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 26:312-9. 2002..Conversely, more than 4 cores will not add significant information. This prostate cancer outcomes array should be useful in evaluating other putative prostate cancer biomarkers...
Tech.Sight. Understanding disease cell by cellMark A Rubin
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Science 296:1329-30. 2002
Noninvasive detection of TMPRSS2:ERG fusion transcripts in the urine of men with prostate cancerBharathi Laxman
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Neoplasia 8:885-8. 2006..These results demonstrate that TMPRSS2:ERG gene fusions can be detected in the urine of patients with prostate cancer and support larger studies on prospective cohorts for noninvasive detection of prostate cancer...
Characterization of TMPRSS2-ETS gene aberrations in androgen-independent metastatic prostate cancerRohit Mehra
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Cancer Res 68:3584-90. 2008..These findings suggest that TMPRSS2-ERG with Edel is an aggressive and, in this study, uniformly lethal molecular subtype of prostate cancer associated with androgen-independent disease...
Recurrent fusion of TMPRSS2 and ETS transcription factor genes in prostate cancerScott A Tomlins
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1301 Catherine Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0602, USA
Science 310:644-8. 2005..These results have implications in the development of carcinomas and the molecular diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer...
Golgi protein GOLM1 is a tissue and urine biomarker of prostate cancerSooryanarayana Varambally
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Neoplasia 10:1285-94. 2008..0009) versus 0.495 for serum PSA (P = .902). Our data indicating the up-regulation of GOLM1 expression and its appearance in patients' urine suggest GOLM1 as a potential novel biomarker for clinically localized prostate cancer...
Prevalence of TMPRSS2-ERG fusion prostate cancer among men undergoing prostate biopsy in the United StatesJuan Miguel Mosquera
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:4706-11. 2009..We sought to determine the prevalence of TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion among prostate-specific antigen-screened men undergoing prostate biopsy in the United States...
Estrogen-dependent signaling in a molecularly distinct subclass of aggressive prostate cancerSunita R Setlur
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:815-25. 2008....
ADAM15 disintegrin is associated with aggressive prostate and breast cancer diseaseRainer Kuefer
Department of Urology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0944, USA
Neoplasia 8:319-29. 2006..These results suggest that ADAM15 is generally overexpressed in adenocarcinoma and is highly associated with metastatic progression of prostate and breast cancers...
Prognostic factors in lymph node-positive prostate cancerMatthias D Hofer
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Urology 67:1016-21. 2006..These parameters may be useful in predicting PSA recurrence in lymph node-positive PCa and could be included in patient follow-up...
Autoantibody signatures in prostate cancerXiaoju Wang
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
N Engl J Med 353:1224-35. 2005..The remaining phage peptides were generated from untranslated sequences. CONCLUSIONS: Autoantibodies against peptides derived from prostate-cancer tissue could be used as the basis for a screening test for prostate cancer...
Role of the TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion in prostate cancerScott A Tomlins
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Neoplasia 10:177-88. 2008..Our results support previous work suggesting that TMPRSS2-ERG fusions mediate invasion, consistent with the defining histologic distinction between PIN and prostate cancer...
Usefulness of basal cell cocktail (34betaE12 + p63) in the diagnosis of atypical prostate glandular proliferationsRajal B Shah
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 122:517-23. 2004..The cocktail provides a simple, cost-effective improvement in basal cell immunohistochemical analysis of difficult prostate lesions...
Multiplex biomarker approach for determining risk of prostate-specific antigen-defined recurrence of prostate cancerDaniel R Rhodes
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:661-8. 2003..19, 95% CI = 1.50 to 6.77; P =.003). CONCLUSION: EZH2:ECAD status was statistically significantly associated with prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy and may be useful in defining a cohort of high-risk patients...
Molecular characterization of TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion in the NCI-H660 prostate cancer cell line: a new perspective for an old modelKirsten D Mertz
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115 6110, USA
Neoplasia 9:200-6. 2007..The androgen receptor-negative NCI-H660 cell line expresses ERG in an androgen-independent fashion. This in vitro model system has the potential to provide important pathobiologic insights into TMPRSS2-ERG fusion prostate cancer...
Integrative analysis of genomic aberrations associated with prostate cancer progressionJung H Kim
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, Department of Urology, Program of Bioinformatics, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0940, USA
Cancer Res 67:8229-39. 2007..Integrative analysis with matched mRNA profiles identified genetic alterations in several proposed candidate genes implicated in prostate cancer progression...
Alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase protein expression is associated with the degree of differentiation in breast cancer using quantitative image analysisAgnieszka K Witkiewicz
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1418-23. 2005..Quantitative image analysis is a novel way to accurately and reproducibly evaluate immunohistochemistry in breast tissue samples using high-density tissue microarrays...
Integrative genomic and proteomic analysis of prostate cancer reveals signatures of metastatic progressionSooryanarayana Varambally
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Cancer Cell 8:393-406. 2005....
Defining aggressive prostate cancer using a 12-gene modelTarek A Bismar
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Neoplasia 8:59-68. 2006..0015). This study demonstrates that cross-platform models can lead to predictive models with the possible advantage of being more robust through this selection process...
The polycomb group protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate cancerSooryanarayana Varambally
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Nature 419:624-9. 2002..Thus, dysregulated expression of EZH2 may be involved in the progression of prostate cancer, as well as being a marker that distinguishes indolent prostate cancer from those at risk of lethal progression...
Contemporary preoperative parameters predict cancer-free survival after radical prostatectomy: a tool to facilitate treatment decisionsCaleb P Nelson
Departments of Urology and Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Urol Oncol 21:213-8. 2003..Tabulated 5-year PSA-free survival outcomes, stratified by these preoperative parameters, provide a basis for preoperative counseling of patients regarding postprostatectomy cancer control expectations...
The role of an 80 kDa fragment of E-cadherin in the metastatic progression of prostate cancerRainer Kuefer
Department of Urology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0944, USA
Clin Cancer Res 9:6447-52. 2003..The purpose of this study was to evaluate an 80 kDa proteolytic fragment of E-cadherin as a potential biomarker for prostate cancer progression and to identify putative proteases that are responsible for the cleavage of E-cadherin...
Integrative molecular concept modeling of prostate cancer progressionScott A Tomlins
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Nat Genet 39:41-51. 2007..Taken together, these data show that analyzing gene expression signatures in the context of a compendium of molecular concepts is useful in understanding cancer biology...
Association of cytokeratin 7 and 19 expression with genomic stability and favorable prognosis in clear cell renal cell cancerKirsten D Mertz
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Cancer 123:569-76. 2008..Distinct molecular subtypes of ccRCC with prognostic relevance were identified, and the CK7/CK19 expressing subtype is associated with better outcome...
Internet-based Profiler system as integrative framework to support translational researchRobert Kim
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 6:304. 2005..The Profiler system allows investigator to reliably track, store, and evaluate TMA experiments. Here within we describe the process that has evolved through an empirical basis over the past 5 years at two academic institutions...
Distinct classes of chromosomal rearrangements create oncogenic ETS gene fusions in prostate cancerScott A Tomlins
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Nature 448:595-9. 2007..Furthermore, the identification of androgen-repressed and insensitive 5' fusion partners may have implications for the anti-androgen treatment of advanced prostate cancer...
Characterization of TMPRSS2-ERG fusion high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and potential clinical implicationsJuan Miguel Mosquera
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Clin Cancer Res 14:3380-5. 2008..This may have significant clinical implications given that TMPRSS2-ERG fusion prostate cancer is associated with a more aggressive clinical course...
Basal cell cocktail (34betaE12 + p63) improves the detection of prostate basal cellsMing Zhou
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 27:365-71. 2003..We recommend this basal cell cocktail for routine Pca diagnostic work-up...
Humoral immune response to alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase and prostate cancerArun Sreekumar
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0602, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:834-43. 2004..CONCLUSION: Assays to detect a humoral immune response against AMACR may have the potential to supplement PSA screening in identifying patients with clinically significant prostate cancer, especially those with intermediate PSA levels...
Genome-wide linkage analysis of TMPRSS2-ERG fusion in familial prostate cancerMatthias D Hofer
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Res 69:640-6. 2009....
TMPRSS2:ERG fusion-associated deletions provide insight into the heterogeneity of prostate cancerSven Perner
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, EBRC 442A, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-6110, USA
Cancer Res 66:8337-41. 2006..The deletion as cause of TMPRSS2:ERG fusion is associated with clinical features for prostate cancer progression compared with tumors that lack the TMPRSS2:ERG rearrangement...
The role of metastasis-associated protein 1 in prostate cancer progressionMatthias D Hofer
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Res 64:825-9. 2004..In summary, this study identified an association of MTA1 expression and prostate cancer progression...
Comprehensive assessment of TMPRSS2 and ETS family gene aberrations in clinically localized prostate cancerRohit Mehra
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Mod Pathol 20:538-44. 2007....
TMPRSS2-ERG fusion prostate cancer: an early molecular event associated with invasionSven Perner
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115 6110, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 31:882-8. 2007..Furthermore, its clinical application as a biomarker and ancillary diagnostic test is promising given its high specificity...
Treatment-dependent androgen receptor mutations in prostate cancer exploit multiple mechanisms to evade therapyMara P Steinkamp
Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5618, USA
Cancer Res 69:4434-42. 2009..Thus, treatment with antiandrogens selects for gain-of-function AR mutations with altered stability, promoter preference, or ligand specificity. These processes reveal multiple targets for effective therapies regardless of AR mutation...
Androgen-independent prostate cancer is a heterogeneous group of diseases: lessons from a rapid autopsy programRajal B Shah
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Cancer Res 64:9209-16. 2004..An appreciation of this heterogeneity is critical to evaluating diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers as well as to designing therapeutic targets for advanced disease...
Elevated alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase enzymatic activity in prostate cancerChandan Kumar-Sinha
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0602, USA
Am J Pathol 164:787-93. 2004..Taken together, our studies suggest that AMACR activity is increased in prostate cancer relative to benign epithelia and suggests that monitoring AMACR activity levels in prostate needle biopsies may have clinical applications...
Elevated E2F1 inhibits transcription of the androgen receptor in metastatic hormone-resistant prostate cancerJoanne N Davis
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Cancer Res 66:11897-906. 2006..Taken together, these results show that elevated E2F1, through its ability to repress AR transcription, may contribute to the progression of hormone-independent prostate cancer...
Expression of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor in prostate cancer and treatment implications with tyrosine kinase inhibitorsMatthias D Hofer
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neoplasia 6:503-12. 2004..2-fold downregulation). Taken together, this study suggests that only a small subset of PCas may be amenable to tyrosine kinase inhibitors specific for PDGFR...
α-Methylacyl-CoA racemase expression and lethal prostate cancer in the Physicians' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up StudyMarc Barry
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Prostate 72:301-6. 2012..Recent studies suggest that low AMACR expression is associated with biochemical recurrence and the development of fatal disease...
Identification of two molecular groups of seminomas by using expression and tissue microarraysMatthias D Hofer
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Cancer Res 11:5722-9. 2005..One group of seminomas has a molecular profile similar to embryonal carcinoma. The findings in the current study may help explain aberrant immunoprofiles seen with some seminomas...
EZH2 is a marker of aggressive breast cancer and promotes neoplastic transformation of breast epithelial cellsCelina G Kleer
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:11606-11. 2003..This study provides compelling evidence for a functional link between dysregulated cellular memory, transcriptional repression, and neoplastic transformation...
Bioinformatics approach leads to the discovery of the TMPRSS2:ETS gene fusion in prostate cancerMark A Rubin
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 6110, USA
Lab Invest 86:1099-102. 2006..The clinical implications of this discovery are significant for diagnosis and potentially for the development of targeted therapy...
Haploinsufficiency and reduced expression of genes localized to the 8p chromosomal region in human prostate tumorsHassan Chaib
Department of Urology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
Genes Chromosomes Cancer 37:306-13. 2003....
JAGGED1 expression is associated with prostate cancer metastasis and recurrenceSandro Santagata
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Res 64:6854-7. 2004....
Comprehensive analysis of the expression of the metastasis-associated gene 1 in human neoplastic tissueMatthias D Hofer
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 130:989-96. 2006..The metastasis-associated gene 1 (MTA1) is overexpressed in several human cancers. Recent reports suggest that MTA1 may play a role in cancer progression either through transcription repression and/or hormone receptor interactions...
Genetic variation of genes involved in dihydrotestosterone metabolism and the risk of prostate cancerSunita R Setlur
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:229-39. 2010..Given PCA's strong genetic component, we evaluated the possibility that variation in genes involved in DHT metabolism influence PCA risk...
Current thoughts on the role of the androgen receptor and prostate cancer progressionSunita R Setlur
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Adv Anat Pathol 12:265-70. 2005..The need for the design of novel therapeutic analogues is also emphasized...
Integrative microarray analysis of pathways dysregulated in metastatic prostate cancerSunita R Setlur
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Res 67:10296-303. 2007..Our results indicate that this pathway is especially dysregulated in hormone-refractory prostate cancer...
Dysregulation of the annexin family protein family is associated with prostate cancer progressionWei Xin
Department of Pathology and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Am J Pathol 162:255-61. 2003..Finally, down-regulation of several annexin family members may play a role in the development of the lethal PCa phenotype...
TMPRSS2:ETV4 gene fusions define a third molecular subtype of prostate cancerScott A Tomlins
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1301 Catherine Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Cancer Res 66:3396-400. 2006..This result defines a third molecular subtype of prostate cancer and supports the hypothesis that dysregulation of ETS family members through fusions with TMRPSS2 may be an initiating event in prostate cancer development...
Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archivesScott A Tomlins
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0602, USA
Neoplasia 8:153-62. 2006..Taken together, WTA represents a versatile approach to profile and archive cDNA from minute tumor samples and is compatible with partially degraded RNA...
Characterization of KRAS rearrangements in metastatic prostate cancerXiao Song Wang
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Cancer Discov 1:35-43. 2011..KRAS rearrangement may represent the driving mutation in a rare subset of metastatic prostate cancers, emphasizing the importance of RAS-RAF-MAPK signaling in this disease...
Molecular profiling of human prostate tissues: insights into gene expression patterns of prostate development during pubertySaravana Mohan Dhanasekaran
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0602, USA
FASEB J 19:243-5. 2005....
A functional thrombin receptor (PAR1) is expressed on bone-derived prostate cancer cell linesChristopher H Chay
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0946, USA
Urology 60:760-5. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: These data indicate that a functional PAR1 is expressed on prostate cancer cell lines. The prostate cancer cell lines expressing PAR1 appear to have an association with increased bone metastases...
Overexpression, amplification, and androgen regulation of TPD52 in prostate cancerMark A Rubin
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Res 64:3814-22. 2004..In summary, these findings suggest that dysregulation of TPD52 by genomic amplification and androgen induction may play a role in prostate cancer progression...
Using molecular markers to predict outcomeMark A Rubin
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Urol 172:S18-21; discussion S21-2. 2004..Developing molecular tests to predict prostate cancer progression requires first defining meaningful clinical end points and defining strategies to take advantage of emerging technology...
Automated immunofluorescence analysis defines microvessel area as a prognostic parameter in clear cell renal cell cancerKirsten D Mertz
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hum Pathol 38:1454-62. 2007..MVA determination by AQUA is an objective and reliable method to quantify tumor vascularization in ccRCC. A large MVA correlates with a high MVD and is associated with better patient prognosis...
Integrative biology of prostate cancer progressionScott A Tomlins
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Annu Rev Pathol 1:243-71. 2006..This review addresses candidate genes involved in prostate cancer pathogenesis in a biological and clinical context and demonstrates how integrated analysis of high-throughput data augments our understanding of prostate cancer...
Prospective evaluation of AMACR (P504S) and basal cell markers in the assessment of routine prostate needle biopsy specimensTara-Jane Browne
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hum Pathol 35:1462-8. 2004..However, a limitation of this approach is the loss of tissue in these small lesions, suggesting that combining AMACR and the BCC on a single slide would be superior to using either marker separately...
Changes in differential gene expression because of warm ischemia time of radical prostatectomy specimensAtreya Dash
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Am J Pathol 161:1743-8. 2002....
Preoperative parameters for predicting early prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomyCaleb P Nelson
Department of Urology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Urology 59:740-5; discussion 745-6. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide a highly significant model and a simple tool for assisting preoperative patient counseling regarding predicted cancer control after radical prostatectomy...
Alpha-Methylacyl-CoA racemase: a novel tumor marker over-expressed in several human cancers and their precursor lesionsMing Zhou
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 26:926-31. 2002..In conclusion, our study suggests that AMACR is potentially an important tumor marker for several cancers and their precursor lesions, especially those linked to high-fat diets...
Prostate cancer involving the bladder neck: recurrence-free survival and implications for AJCC staging modification. American Joint Committee on CancerAtreya Dash
Department of Urology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Urology 60:276-80. 2002..The current AJCC system for staging bladder neck involvement, however, is contrary to the available evidence. Reclassification of bladder neck involvement as part of the pT3 category should be considered...
alpha-Methylacyl-CoA racemase: expression levels of this novel cancer biomarker depend on tumor differentiationRainer Kuefer
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109 0602, USA
Am J Pathol 161:841-8. 2002..Taken together, these data suggest that AMACR expression is not hormone-dependent but may in fact be a marker of tumor differentiation...
Huntingtin-interacting protein 1 is overexpressed in prostate and colon cancer and is critical for cellular survivalDinesh S Rao
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J Clin Invest 110:351-60. 2002..HIP1 represents a putative prognostic factor for prostate cancer and a potential therapy target in prostate as well as colon cancers...
Comparison of the basal cell-specific markers, 34betaE12 and p63, in the diagnosis of prostate cancerRajal B Shah
Deparment of Pathology and Urology, University of Michigan School of Medicine and Comprenhensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 26:1161-8. 2002..p63 may be used as an alternative to 34betaE12 stain for difficult prostate lesions...
Differential expression of cytokeratins 8 and 20 distinguishes craniopharyngioma from rathke cleft cystWei Xin
Department of Pathology and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 126:1174-8. 2002..Distinguishing craniopharyngioma from Rathke cleft cyst is sometimes difficult, and the distinction is clinically significant because Rathke cleft cysts have a better prognosis than craniopharyngiomas...
ETS gene fusions in prostate cancer: from discovery to daily clinical practiceScott A Tomlins
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Eur Urol 56:275-86. 2009..In 2005, fusions between the androgen-regulated transmembrane protease serine 2 gene, TMPRSS2, and E twenty-six (ETS) transcription factors were discovered in prostate cancer...
Characterization of RhoC expression in benign and malignant breast disease: a potential new marker for small breast carcinomas with metastatic abilityCelina G Kleer
Department of Pathology, Division of Hematology and Oncology, 2G332 University Hospital, University of Michigan, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0054, USA
Am J Pathol 160:579-84. 2002..RhoC is specifically expressed in invasive breast carcinomas capable of metastasizing, and it may be clinically useful in patients with tumors smaller than 1 cm to guide treatment...
Diagnostic usefulness of monoclonal antibody P504S in the workup of atypical prostatic glandular proliferationsLakshmi P Kunju
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 120:737-45. 2003..Most HGPINs show diffuse moderate P504S staining. AAH may show focal P504S staining. We recommend using P504S along with morphologic examination and conventional basal cell markers...
Postprostatectomy cancer-free survival of African Americans is similar to non-African Americans after adjustment for baseline cancer severityWillie Underwood
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Urol Oncol 22:20-4. 2004..Studies are needed to evaluate the possible interaction of prostate cancer stage and grade shift in African American men and the disease free survival in this population...
PAR1-mediated NFkappaB activation promotes survival of prostate cancer cells through a Bcl-xL-dependent mechanismKwanchanit Tantivejkul
Department of Urology, The Michigan Urology Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
J Cell Biochem 96:641-52. 2005....
Quantitative determination of expression of the prostate cancer protein alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase using automated quantitative analysis (AQUA): a novel paradigm for automated and continuous biomarker measurementsMark A Rubin
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Pathol 164:831-40. 2004..In the future, the AMACR AQUA Z-score may be useful in the automated screening and evaluation of prostate tissue biomarkers...
Molecular profiling and the identification of genes associated with metastatic oral cavity/pharynx squamous cell carcinomaCecelia E Schmalbach
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109 0656, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 130:295-302. 2004..To investigate differences in gene expression profiles between oral cavity/oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma (OC/OP SCC) primary tumors that have metastasized to cervical lymph nodes and nonmetastatic OC/OP SCC tumors...
Immunohistochemical and clinicopathological correlation of the metastasis-associated gene 1 (MTA1) expression in benign and malignant pancreatic endocrine tumorsMatthias D Hofer
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Mod Pathol 22:933-9. 2009..This may suggest a potential role for metastasis-associated gene 1 in the malignant progression and metastasis and its use as biomarker for malignant pancreatic endocrine tumors...
Profiling and verification of gene expression patterns in normal and malignant human prostate tissues by cDNA microarray analysisH Chaib
Department of Surgery, Section of Urology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0946, USA
Neoplasia 3:43-52. 2001....
Loss of expression of human spectrin src homology domain binding protein 1 is associated with 10p loss in human prostatic adenocarcinomaJ A Macoska
Department of Surgery, The University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0946, USA
Neoplasia 3:99-104. 2001..These data are consistent with a role for Hssh3bp1 as a candidate tumor suppressor gene inactivated during prostate tumorigenesis...
Morphological features of TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion prostate cancerJ M Mosquera
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 6110, USA
J Pathol 212:91-101. 2007..These features may also be helpful in diagnosing TMPRSS2-ERG fusion prostate cancer, which may have both prognostic and therapeutic implications...
E-cadherin expression in prostate cancer: a broad survey using high-density tissue microarray technologyM A Rubin
Departments of Pathology, Surgery-Urology Section, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0054, USA
Hum Pathol 32:690-7. 2001..Metastatic prostate cancer shows strong E-cadherin expression as determined by anti-E-cadherin antibody HECD-1...
Prevalence and location of peripheral nerve found on prostate needle biopsyM Zhou
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 115:39-43. 2001..Careful examination of routine H&E-stained specimens is sufficient to detect all important PNI...
Lack of association of prostate carcinoma nuclear grading with prostate specific antigen recurrence after radical prostatectomyM Zhou
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J Urol 166:2193-7. 2001..Nuclear morphology is subject to tissue fixation and processing artifact. Any nuclear morphometric study must consider this artifact...
Web-based tissue microarray image data analysis: initial validation testing through prostate cancer Gleason gradingG S Bova
Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287-6417, USA
Hum Pathol 32:417-27. 2001..hum pathol 32:417-427...
Postatrophic hyperplasia of the prostate gland: neoplastic precursor or innocent bystander?R Shah
Department of Pathology, Section of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Am J Pathol 158:1767-73. 2001..Gain of 8c is significantly greater in PAH than benign prostate, SA, and even HGPIN. These findings demonstrate a strong association between PAH and PCA, supporting its role as a neoplastic precursor...
Relational database structure to manage high-density tissue microarray data and images for pathology studies focusing on clinical outcome: the prostate specialized program of research excellence modelS Manley
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer and Geriatrics Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0946, USA
Am J Pathol 159:837-43. 2001..Because the review is performed over the Internet, this system is ideal for collaborative multi-institutional studies...
Delineation of prognostic biomarkers in prostate cancerS M Dhanasekaran
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Nature 412:822-6. 2001..Thus, the integration of cDNA microarray, high-density tissue microarray, and linked clinical and pathology data is a powerful approach to molecular profiling of human cancer...
Analysis of three-dimensional Doppler ultrasonographic quantitative measures for the discrimination of prostate cancerA P Moskalik
Department of Basic Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0553, USA
J Ultrasound Med 20:713-22. 2001..CONCLUSION: Doppler ultrasonography does provide discriminatory information for prostate cancer, with color pixel density being the most promising measure...
Cribriform carcinoma of the prostate and cribriform prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia: incidence and clinical implicationsM A Rubin
Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 22:840-8. 1998..The close association between high tumor volume and HGCP supports the theory that the development of HGCP is a late event in tumor progression, more compatible with the intraductal spread of tumor than dysplasia...
Functional p53 mutation as a molecular determinant of paclitaxel and gemcitabine susceptibility in human bladder cancerS J Kielb
Departments of Urology and Pathology, Prostate Cancer and Urological Oncology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J Urol 166:482-7. 2001..These findings provide a rationale for selecting chemotherapy based on the p53 status of individual bladder cancers...
TMPRSS2:ERG gene fusion associated with lethal prostate cancer in a watchful waiting cohortF Demichelis
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115 6110, USA
Oncogene 26:4596-9. 2007..005). These data suggest that TMPRSS2:ERG fusion prostate cancers may have a more aggressive phenotype, possibly mediated through increased ERG expression...
Analysis of three-dimensional ultrasound Doppler for the detection of prostate cancerA Moskalik
Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Urology 57:1128-32. 2001..These results also objectively verify previous visual studies suggesting a modest improvement with the use of color Doppler...
Posttranslational truncation and inactivation of human E-cadherin distinguishes prostate cancer from matched normal prostateM G Rashid
Department of Surgery, and the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0944, USA
Cancer Res 61:489-92. 2001..Herein, we report the first experiment comparing case-matched human normal and cancerous prostate tissue in the context of E-cadherin truncation...
Loss of heterozygosity of the putative prostate cancer susceptibility gene HPC2/ELAC2 is uncommon in sporadic and familial prostate cancerY Q Wu
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0946, USA
Cancer Res 61:8651-3. 2001..Taken together, inactivation of the HPC2/ELAC2 gene via LOH is a relatively uncommon event in prostate cancer. Future studies will determine whether 17p LOH occurs in the subset of patients with an inherited mutation in HPC2/ELAC2...
KLF6-SV1 overexpression accelerates human and mouse prostate cancer progression and metastasisGoutham Narla
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Clin Invest 118:2711-21. 2008..Together, these findings demonstrate that KLF6-SV1 expression levels in PCa tumors at the time of diagnosis can predict the metastatic behavior of the tumor; thus, KLF-SV1 may represent a novel therapeutic target...
Benign positive margins after radical prostatectomy means a poor prognosis--conMark A Rubin
Urology 65:221-3. 2005
