Clinical Study

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

Table 2

Correlation of posttreatment biopsy specimen tissue microarray biomarker expression with 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 (0.60–1.68)0.9813
p53
 Nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio4.13 (1.29–13.17)0.0167
ATM
 Nuclear2.28 (0.34–15.32)0.3971
 Cytoplasm1.86 (0.32–10.79)0.4889
 Tumor mask1.33 (0.22–8.11)0.7594
PARP1
 Nuclear1.38 (0.18–10.62)0.7596
 Cytoplasm0.53 (0.12–2.33)0.3982
 Tumor mask0.55 (0.13–2.42)0.4317
ERCC1
 Nuclear0.77 (0.06–9.53)0.8380
 Cytoplasm0.37 (0.11–1.21)0.0991
 Tumor mask0.30 (0.09–0.97)0.0443
XPF
 Nuclear0.01 (0.00–0.92)0.0457
 Cytoplasm0.25 (0.03–2.35)0.2271
 Tumor mask0.16 (0.02–1.62)0.1207
CAIX
 Nuclear1.23 (0.48–3.13)0.6713
 Cytoplasm1.33 (0.60–2.95)0.4881
 Tumor mask1.32 (0.58–3.03)0.5084
GLUT1
 Nuclear1.44 (0.50–4.18)0.4989
 Cytoplasm1.24 (0.52–2.96)0.6322
 Tumor mask1.26 (0.50–3.20)0.6212
HIF-1α
 Nuclear0.59 (0.18–1.89)0.3712
 Cytoplasm0.37 (0.12–1.16)0.0885
 Tumor mask0.40 (0.14–1.17)0.0945

HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval.