Ciência e terapia do câncer

The Influence of C936T Gene in Wild of the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Biochemical Variants Analysis for Alpha-Fetoprotein in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients in Egypt

Abstract

Khaled El-Khashab AE, Soha Hamdy M*, Gama Tamam H, Sahar Soliman M and Asmaa Rady AM

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most frequent malignant tumors. It is important to detect disease and recurrence at its earlier period. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the C936T polymorphism of the VEGF and Alfa feto-Protein (AFP) on Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and control groups. Also, estimation of serum AFP and correlation with other parameters was studied. In this study was included 75 subjects, 25 patients with HCV, 25 patients with confirmed HCC and 25 healthy volunteers were subjected to abdominal ultrasonography, AFP and VEGF were assessed. The statistical analysis will include the Fisher exact test, T test and the multivariate regression, with significance level P<0.05 (AU). The result has showed that Serum level of AFP was significantly higher in HCC group when compared with control group and There was a nonsignificant increase in serum (AFP) level in the untreated HCV infected group compared to control group and also there was a nonsignificant increase in serum (AFP) activity in the HCC group compared to untreated HCV infected group with a (P value = 0.203). the influence of the C936T polymorphism of the VEGF distribution of the studied groups showing that Positive gene have higher incidence of HCV and HCC infection than Negative gene, when compared to control group. Sensitivity and specificity of markers in diagnosis of HCC were 52% and 40% respectively for AFP using a cutoff value of 3.39 ng/ml. VEGF may be useful marker for detection of HCC in addition to traditional markers.