Clinical Study

Correlation of High-Risk Soft Tissue Sarcoma Biomarker Expression Patterns with Outcome following Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation

Table 3

Correlation of posttreatment biopsy specimen tissue microarray biomarker expression with distant disease-free survival in 40 large, deep, high-risk soft tissue sarcoma patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation.

MarkerHR (95% CI) value

ACIS Ki67
 Percentage1.01 (0.60–1.69)0.9691
p53
 Nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio4.16 (1.31–13.23)0.0159
ATM
 Nuclear2.32 (0.35–15.59)0.3859
 Cytoplasm1.93 (0.34–11.05)0.4583
 Tumor mask1.37 (0.23–8.33)0.7294
PARP1
 Nuclear1.37 (0.18–10.68)0.7611
 Cytoplasm0.52 (0.12–2.34)0.3971
 Tumor mask0.55 (0.13–2.43)0.4313
ERCC1
 Nuclear0.78 (0.06–9.75)0.8479
 Cytoplasm10.37 (0.11–1.22)0.1038
 Tumor mask0.30 (0.09–0.98)0.0455
XPF
 Nuclear0.01 (0.00–0.93)0.0462
 Cytoplasm0.27 (0.03–2.43)0.2415
 Tumor mask0.17 (0.02–1.69)0.1304
CAIX
 Nuclear1.21 (0.47–3.12)0.6885
 Cytoplasm1.32 (0.59–2.94)0.5005
 Tumor mask1.31 (0.57–3.02)0.5214
GLUT1
 Nuclear1.44 (0.50–4.18)0.4984
 Cytoplasm1.24 (0.52–2.97)0.6250
 Tumor mask1.27 (0.50–3.20)0.6168
HIF-1α
 Nuclear0.59 (0.18–1.90)0.3717
 Cytoplasm0.37 (0.12–1.17)0.0913
 Tumor mask0.40 (0.14–1.17)0.0951

HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval.