OGAWA Shimpei
   Department   School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital), School of Medicine
   Position   Associate Professor
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Non peer reviewed
Title Feasibility of Pooled One-Step Nucleic Acid Amplification for Molecular Staging of Pathologically Node-Negative Colon Cancer: A Prospective Multicenter Study.
Journal Formal name:Annals of surgical oncology
Abbreviation:Ann Surg Oncol
ISSN code:15344681/10689265
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Volume, Issue, Page 28(13),pp.8804-8812
Author and coauthor TANI Kimitaka†, ITABASHI Michio, OKUYA Koichi, TAKEMASA Ichiro, TOMITA Naohiro, OGAWA Shimpei, NAGASHIMA Yoji, YAMAMOTO Masakazu
Publication date 2021/12
Summary BACKGROUND:Although conventional one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) is a useful molecular-staging method, its complexity hinders its use in clinical practice. A pooled approach for OSNA (pOSNA) has been evaluated for its feasibility in pathologically node-negative colon cancer (pNNCC) for molecular staging of lymph node metastasis in clinical practice.METHODS:Subjects were patients diagnosed with clinical stage II-IIIA colon cancer between January 2017 and September 2018. pOSNA involved harvesting pericolic lymph nodes from fresh surgical specimens, cutting them in half, placing 50% of the nodes in a single test tube, and performing the OSNA assay. The remaining halved pericolic, intermediate, and main lymph nodes were submitted for histopathologic examination, with metastasis determined by hematoxylin and eosin staining of a cut surface of each node.RESULTS:Of the 98 enrolled patients, 92 formed the analysis set. The mean number of harvested lymph nodes per case was 24.3 (range 5-66) and the mean number of lymph nodes used for pOSNA analysis was 6.9 (range 1-35). The concordance rate, sensitivity, and specificity between methods were 89.1%, 84.6% (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.80-0.91), and 90.9% (95% CI 0.88-0.94), respectively. The pOSNA upstaging rate for node-negative patients was 9.1% (6/66), and pOSNA returned false-negative results in 15.4% of node-positive cases (4/26).CONCLUSIONS:pOSNA demonstrated an upstaging rate for pNNCC equivalent to that in previous studies, suggesting its feasibility for molecular staging of pNNCC in clinical practice.
DOI 10.1245/s10434-021-10140-9
PMID 34086123