PMID- 38196304 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20240313 LR - 20240313 IS - 1097-0347 (Electronic) IS - 1043-3074 (Linking) VI - 46 IP - 4 DP - 2024 Apr TI - ALCAM is a biomarker of tumor aggressiveness and worse prognosis in glottic laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. PG - 785-796 LID - 10.1002/hed.27635 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is the second most frequent head and neck tumor. Prognosis of patients with LSCC has not improved in recent decades, showing a need for the identification of prognostic biomarkers and new therapeutic targets. Recently, we showed that ALCAM overexpression was associated with glottic LSCC prognosis. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: Aiming to validate the prognostic value of ALCAM, we evaluate the ALCAM protein levels by immunohistochemistry in 263 glottic LSCC surgically treated with neck dissection. RESULTS: ALCAM was expressed in 48.7% and overexpressed in 36.5% of glottic LSCC samples. ALCAM overexpression was associated with lymph node metastasis (p = 0.030), lymphovascular involvement (p = 0.0002), high-grade tumors (p = 0.025), and tumor relapse (p = 0.043). Multivariate survival analyses showed an overfitting between ALCAM overexpression and lymph node metastasis as a prognostic variable. CONCLUSIONS: High ALCAM expression was associated with an aggressive glottic LSCC profile. CI - (c) 2024 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Nicolau-Neto, Pedro AU - Nicolau-Neto P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3322-2120 AD - Programa de Carcinogenese Molecular, Instituto Nacional de Cancer-INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. FAU - Peryassu, Bernardo Cacciari AU - Peryassu BC AD - Secao de Cirurgia de Cabeca e Pescoco, Instituto Nacional de Cancer-INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. FAU - de Carvalho, Flavia Nascimento AU - de Carvalho FN AD - Programa de Carcinogenese Molecular, Instituto Nacional de Cancer-INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. FAU - Souza-Santos, Paulo Thiago AU - Souza-Santos PT AD - Biologia Molecular, Beneficencia Portuguesa de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. FAU - Valverde, Priscila AU - Valverde P AD - Divisao de Patologia, Instituto Nacional de Cancer-INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. FAU - Nascimento, Cristina Moreira AU - Nascimento CM AD - Divisao de Patologia, Instituto Nacional de Cancer-INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. FAU - Costa, Izabella AU - Costa I AD - Secao de Cirurgia de Cabeca e Pescoco, Instituto Nacional de Cancer-INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. FAU - Dias, Fernando L AU - Dias FL AD - Secao de Cirurgia de Cabeca e Pescoco, Instituto Nacional de Cancer-INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. FAU - Pinto, Luis Felipe Ribeiro AU - Pinto LFR AD - Programa de Carcinogenese Molecular, Instituto Nacional de Cancer-INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AD - Departamento de Bioquimica, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. LA - eng GR - Swiss Bridge Foundation/ GR - Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/ GR - Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior/ GR - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20240109 PL - United States TA - Head Neck JT - Head & neck JID - 8902541 RN - 0 (Activated-Leukocyte Cell Adhesion Molecule) RN - 0 (Biomarkers, Tumor) RN - 0 (ALCAM protein, human) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck MH - Activated-Leukocyte Cell Adhesion Molecule MH - *Laryngeal Neoplasms MH - *Carcinoma, Squamous Cell MH - Lymphatic Metastasis MH - Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism MH - Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/pathology MH - Prognosis MH - *Head and Neck Neoplasms/surgery OTO - NOTNLM OT - ALCAM expression OT - laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma OT - prognostic biomarker EDAT- 2024/01/10 06:41 MHDA- 2024/03/13 06:47 CRDT- 2024/01/10 02:32 PHST- 2023/12/01 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/06/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/12/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2024/03/13 06:47 [medline] PHST- 2024/01/10 06:41 [pubmed] PHST- 2024/01/10 02:32 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/hed.27635 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Head Neck. 2024 Apr;46(4):785-796. doi: 10.1002/hed.27635. Epub 2024 Jan 9.