Ces Urol 2000, 4(2):20-26 | DOI: 10.48095/cccu2000009
The assessment of prognostic factors plays important role in treatment preference chosen for patients with superficial urinary bladder tumors. The role of gene and protein p53 is often discussed in those circumstances. In stored specimens from 55 patients with superficial tumors of the urinary bladder we have investigated the p53 (antibody BP53-12-1) by imunohistochemic technique and we have evaluated the prognostic value of such statement. Newly we used a new method of finding's interpretation, based on a semiquantitative assessment by HSCORE using the computer technologies combined with the intensity of every individual cellular nuclei positivity. As the cut off line for p53 positivity determination we recommend the HSCORE value 200. Using this cutoff we have found disease recurrence in 67,9 % of p53 positive patients and in 19 % of p53 negative (p<0.01), disease progression in 42,9 % of patients with positive and in 9,5 % with negative findings (p<0.05).
Published: March 1, 2000