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2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Proposal of a novel grading scheme of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma: Clinicopathological and molecular characteristics to therapeutic strategies

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 20K07404
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 49020:Human pathology-related
Research InstitutionNiigata University

Principal Investigator

Ohashi Riuko  新潟大学, 医歯学系, 准教授 (20447600)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 味岡 洋一  新潟大学, 医歯学系, 教授 (80222610)
Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Keywords腎癌 / 嫌色素性腎細胞癌 / 予後 / リスク分類 / 腎細胞癌 / コピー数異常 / グレード分類
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We analyzed the clinicopathologic and molecular characteristics of 218 Japanese chromophobe cell carcinoma (chRCC) cases. The results revealed the following: 1) the two-tiered grading system based on the presence of histologic tumor necrosis and sarcomatoid differentiation is more reproducible and useful than other proposed grading systems; 2) cancer-specific mortality in the Japanese cohort was only 2%; 3) cancer-specific death is restricted in the classic pattern chRCC cases, and the eosinophilic pattern chRCCs lacking pale cells showed a 0% cancer-specific mortality; 4) In the eosinophilic pattern chRCCs, there were two types: c-kit-negative to weakly positive cases with TSC pathway somatic mutations and others. 5) there is a group of tumors that closely resembles chRCC by histology with H&E but differ in protein expression and genomic background.

Free Research Field

人体病理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

嫌色素性腎細胞癌は腎癌の中で3番目に多い組織型であるが、最も頻度の高い淡明細胞型腎細胞癌とは異なり十分な臨床病理学的特徴や分子生物学的特徴、予後規定因子の検討がなされておらず不明点の多い組織型であった。また、腎癌の標準治療が嫌色素性腎細胞癌では殆ど奏功せず、切除不能例や術後再発例における有効な化学療法はいまだ確立されていない。本研究では、治療対象とすべき予後不良群の臨床病理学的・分子生物学的特徴を明らかにすることにより、新たな標的治療を開発する足掛かりを築いたと考えられる。また、好酸性パターンの解析は、これまでの病理分類およびそれに基づく診療と研究におけるパラダイムシフトに繋がる可能性がある。

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Published: 2024-01-30  

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