Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 110-113.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-616x.2022.02.006

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Expressions of lncRNA CASC9 in colorectal cancer and its relationship with clinical prognosis

LIANG Feng, ZHANG Wei, LI Fei, WANG Shengjie, DU Yujing, ZHANG Yingchun   

  1. Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou 075000, Hebei, China
  • Received:2021-12-01 Revised:2022-02-18 Published:2022-04-07

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To investigate expressions of long-chain noncoding RNA cancer susceptibility candidate 9 (lncRNA CASC9) in colorectal cancers and its relationships with clinical prognosis. METHODS: Eighty-seven cancer and adjacent tissues from patients with colorectal cancers were collected. Real time quantitative PCR was used to detect the expression levels of lncRNA CASC9 in the tissues. Relationships between the expression levels clinicopathological indicators were analyzed. Kaplan-meier survival analysis was performed,and log-rank method was used to test the relationship between the expression levels and clinical prognosis. RESULTS:The expression levels of lncRNA CASC9 in colorectal cancer were significantly higher than that in adjacent tissues (P<0.01) and were significantly correlated with different degrees of differentiation (χ2=6.877, P=0.032), TNM stage (χ2=7.660, P=0.022) and lymph node metastasis (χ2=9.901, P=0.002), but not with gender,age,tumor diameter and tumor locations (All P>0.05). Kaplan Meier survival analyses show that the overall survival and progression- free survival times among patients with high expression of lncRNA CASC9 were significantly shorter than those with low expression (χ2=17.91, P<0.01; χ2=11.23, P=0.001). CONCLUSION:lncRNA CASC9 was highly expressed in colorectal cancers and was related to the degree of differentiation,TNM stage and lymph node metastasis of the cancers. It may be useful as a diagnostic marker of colorectal cancers.

Key words: colorectal cancer, long chain noncoding RNA, cancer susceptibility candidate 9, prognosis

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