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Volume 8 Journal of Clinical & Experimental Pathology
ISSN : 2161-0681 Euro Pathology 2018 | Hematologic Oncology 2018
June 20-21, 2018
Page 43
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15 th EUROPEAN PATHOLOGY CONGRESS
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LEUKEMIA AND HEMATOLOGIC ONCOLOGY
June 20-21, 2018 | Paris, France
14th International Conference on
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Peter Stoemmer, J Clin Exp Pathol 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0681-C1-044
Tumor budding in colorectal carcinoma- difficulties in graduation and some solutions
Introduction: Infiltration of tumor cells into the peritumoral tissue is one of the most outstanding features of malignancy and,
in small tumors/early tumor stages probably of eminent prognostic relevance. In colorectal carcinomas (CRCs), the graduation
of the invasive potential is difficult and shows high interobserver variability, leading to several–not very convincing-attempts
of standardization as a result of mixing different morphological and biochemical modes of invasion. We analysed different
morphological patterns of invasion in CRCs in respect of morphogenous features and biological consequences: The expression
of proliferation markers, cell adhesion molecules adherens, and regulators catenins, and invadopia-associated markers like
matrix metalloproteinases Vinculin and the perinfiltrative tumorstroma.
Materials & Methods: Twenty hot spots of tumor buds in 20 cases of CRCs (400 POIs) were analysed in FFPE, 5 Ym IHC;
analysis of E-Cadherin, N-Cadherin with MoAbs I5626 M0735- DAKO North America, Carpinteria California); Ki-67, CD44
with MoAb (IS2541 M0753 DAKO Denmark Glostrup) Vinculin (PoAb E18720, Spring Bioscience, California).
Results:Tumor budding (TB) inCRCs is part of themuchmore complex phenomenon of epithelial-mesenchymal transformation
(EMT/TEM). Morphologically tumor buds were classified in four different types: (1) monocellular and oligocellular,
(2) trabecular, (3) tubular, (4) irregular and sheetlike. They show different IHC results: E-Cadherin expression and membranous
ß-catenin are lost in (1) and (2) and diminished in (3); it is well-expressed in (4) N-Cadherin and nuclear ß-catenin are increased
in (1), (2) and (3) Vinculin and CD 44, markers of invadopodia, apparently do not play a significant role in tumor budding.
Ki-67, a marker of mitotic ability is highly diminished in (1)–(3) and low in (4).
Conclusion: TB is not a simple phenomenon of tumor-cell propagation but the result of a complete change of intracellular
organizations with shift of cadherins and catenins; these changes apparently block the mitotic activity of invading cells. Invasion
by TB is in strict contrast to proliferation. Development of new therapies should keep in mind, that one can either block
proliferation or propagation of malignant tumors.
Biography
Peter Stoemmer has completed his PhD from University Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany and Post-doctoral studies in Yale, News Haven, USA. He is the Director of
Pathologie Hermanstrasse.Augsburg Germany. He has published more than 225 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of repute.
Peter Stoemmer
Pathologie Augsburg, Germany