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Urinary levels of soluble e-cadherin in the detection of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder.

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that elevated urinary levels of soluble E-cadherin (sE-cadherin) would aid in the detection of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary bladder. METHODS: We performed sE-cadherin staining of one murine (MBT2) and four human (RT4, 5637, T24, and TCCSUP) bladder cancer cell lines. sE-cadherin levels were also determined in voided urine of 188 consecutive subjects at risk for TCC recurrence, 31 patients with other uro-pathologic conditions, and 10 healthy subjects using a commercially-available ELISA kit. sE-cadherin was analyzed continuously and categorically on the basis of its median distribution. RESULTS: Moderately and poorly differentiated bladder cancer cell lines had decreased cellular E-cadherin expression, whereas RT4, a well differentiated cell line, had preserved expression. All cell lines had measurable sE-cadherin levels in their conditioned media. The area under the ROC curve of sE-cadherin for the detection of TCC was 0.719 (95%CI, 0.637-0.801; p<0.001). Higher levels of sE-cadherin were associated with positive cytology results (p=0.012) and muscle invasive tumor stage (p=0.009). Urinary sE-cadherin was more sensitive, but less specific than urinary cytology for the detection of bladder TCC. In a multivariable logistic regression analysis, higher sE-cadherin and positive cytology were both associated with an increased risk of bladder TCC (p=0.048 and p<0.001, respectively). Combination of cytology and sE-cadherin allowed categorization of patients into three significantly different risk groups for bladder cancer. Adjustment of sE-cadherin for urinary creatinine levels did not affect any of the outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Urinary level of sE-cadherin may add information to cytology in the detection of bladder TCC.[1]

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  1. Urinary levels of soluble e-cadherin in the detection of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Shariat, S.F., Matsumoto, K., Casella, R., Jian, W., Lerner, S.P. Eur. Urol. (2005) [Pubmed]
 
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