A general aspect on soft-tissue sarcoma and c-kit expression in primitive neuroectodermal tumor and Ewing's sarcoma - Is there any role in disease process?

Kara I., Gonlusen G., Sahin B., Ergin M., Erdogan S.

SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL, vol.26, no.8, pp.1190-1196, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 26 Issue: 8
  • Publication Date: 2005
  • Journal Name: SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1190-1196
  • Çukurova University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Objective: Within soft-tissue sarcoma, primitive neuroectodermal tumors have been shown to cover a wide spectrum of small round cell sarcomas, including Ewing's sarcomas (ES) and primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET). The role of the stem cell factor/kit pathway has been investigated in different human tumors especially in chronic myelocytic leukemia and gastrointestinal stromal tumor and an autocrine loop has been assumed in small cell lung carcinoma, and recently in ES and PNET. Our aim is to investigate the c-kit expression in ES and PNET and also to assessed if c-kit has any role in disease process.