Detection of serum microRNA in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy sensitivity and its clinical application value
YANG Jingrong1,2 WU Jian2 YE Shixin2 LIAN Duohuang2 ZENG Zhiyong1,2▲
1.The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China;
2.Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Command, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350025, China
Abstract:Objective To investigate the relationship between serum microRNA(miRNA) and neoadjuvant radiotherapy (NCRT) for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and its predictive value. Methods From January 2015 to December 2016, 30 patients with preoperative NCRT cT3-4N0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma admitted to Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Command were selected. Peripheral blood of the patients were collected before NCRT. According to the postoperative pathological results, the patients were divided into the sensitive group and the resistance group, with 15 cases in each group. The differentially expressed serum mirnas in the NCRT sensitive group and the resistance group were detected by miRNA expression profile microarray. Then, the sample size was expanded for real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR to verify the initially screened serum mirnas. The relationship between the efficacy of miRNA and NCRT was analyzed and verified. Subject operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to evaluate the value of miRNA in predicting the efficacy of NCRT. Results A total of 16 differentially expressed mirnas were detected in the serum of the two groups, among which miRNA-23, miRNA-211 and miRNA-323 were verified by qRT-PCR, and the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The area under the curve of the short-term efficacy of the three factors and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma NCRT was 0.764, 0.880 and 0.707, respectively. Conclusion The evaluation of miRNA-23, miRNA-211 and miRNA-323 in the short-term efficacy of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma NCRT may have certain predictive value.
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