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Cancer Research
Preoperative embolization of the renal artery has been re ported to improve the survival of patie... more Preoperative embolization of the renal artery has been re ported to improve the survival of patients with advanced renal carcinomas compared to operative treatment only. To investi gate possible immunological consequences of tumor emboli zation, natural killer (NK) cell activity in peripheral blood was investigated immediately before and at different time intervals after occlusion of the renal artery by insertion of a metal coil. A slight increase in NK activity could be observed 24 hr postembolization while a marked augmentation was seen after 48 hr. The high NK activity persisted up to 96 hr after emboli zation, the last time period included in the study. Two patients undergoing the same procedure but in whom embolization was unsuccessful showed no alteration in NK activity.
Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology
To evaluate the efficacy of lymphangiography combined with fine needle aspiration biopsy and comp... more To evaluate the efficacy of lymphangiography combined with fine needle aspiration biopsy and computer tomography (CT) for lymph node staging in clinically localized prostate cancer. Prospective evaluation of nodal involvement was carried out using standard bipedal lymphangiography combined with fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in 70 patients (aged 47 to 75 years, mean age 63 years) with apparently locally confined prostate cancer before intended radical prostatectomy. Sixty-four patients also underwent computer tomography. Seventeen withdrew the decision to undergo a radical prostatectomy, leaving 53 patients with pathologic examination of the lymph nodes eligible for analysis. Lymph node metastases were diagnosed in 8 patients (8/53 = 15.1%). Three were diagnosed preoperatively by FNAB, 3 peroperatively by lymph node dissection and frozen section biopsy and an additional 2 at the final pathologic assessment. The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values for lymphangiography and lymphangiography combined with FNAB in predicting nodal disease, based on the analysis of the 53 patients with known pathologic results, were 0.63, 0.76, 0.31, 0.92 and 0.38, 1.00, 1.00, 0.90, respectively. The corresponding values for CT staging were 0.25, 0.98, 0.67 and 0.87, respectively. The efficacy of bipedal lymphangiography alone or combined with FNAB or CT alone for assessment of nodal metastases is too low to be worthwhile for lymph node staging in localized prostate cancer patients with expected low or intermediate probability of nodal disease.
Scandinavian journal of urology and nephrology. Supplementum
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was measured by polyclonal radioimmunoassay in 45 untreated patie... more Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was measured by polyclonal radioimmunoassay in 45 untreated patients with prostatic cancer and 14 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) was determined in 35 patients with prostatic cancer and 14 patients with benign hyperplasia. Serum PSA was raised in 42 patients with cancer of the prostate, but only 14 of 35 patients showed increased serum levels of PAP. Half the patients with benign prostate hyperplasia had PSA greater than 4 micrograms/l and one third had PSA greater than 10 micrograms/l. PAP was slightly elevated in two patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Serum PSA increased with the clinical stage of prostatic cancer. However, preoperative levels of PSA were not sufficiently reliable to predict the final pathological stage for each individual patient. After radical prostatectomy for cancer confined to the prostate, serum PSA fell to an undetectable level.
Scandinavian journal of urology and nephrology. Supplementum
The American journal of physiology
Microspheres of 10.90 +/- 0.65 micron (SD) were injected in the superior mesenteric artery of cat... more Microspheres of 10.90 +/- 0.65 micron (SD) were injected in the superior mesenteric artery of cats and their intramural distribution and diameter in the small intestine were studied microscopically under basal conditions and after vasodilation by isoproterenol. Approximately 2% of the spheres were shunted through the small intestinal vasculature and could be recovered in the liver. Analysis of the tissue distribution suggested that all spheres arrested in villi represented villous blood flow, spheres arrested in the crypt layer represented flow to the crypts, and the majority of microspheres trapped in the submucosa also represented crypt flow. Nutritive blood flow to the submucosa constituted only 1.5% of total intestinal flow. Log-linear analyses identified factors responsible for sphere distribution, including effects of sphere size, isoproterenol treatment, and local blood flow or vascular resistance. Spheres with diameters greater than 11.08 micron had 1.35 times larger odds than smaller spheres to embolize in the muscularis rather than in the mucosa, but no consistent difference between diameter profiles in the crypts and villi was found. With this reservation, 11-micron spheres seem to be appropriate for measuring blood flow to the muscle, crypt, and villous layers of the small intestine.
Anticancer research
Previous studies have reported a possible prognostic importance of microvessel density (MVD) in p... more Previous studies have reported a possible prognostic importance of microvessel density (MVD) in prostate cancer, although the significance after radical prostatectomy is not clear. The purpose of this study was to assess the prognostic value of MVD in clinically localized prostatic adenocarcinomas, focusing on moderately-differentiated tumours. We examined a series of 104 patients treated for presumed organ-confined cancer in the period 1988-94. The area of highest tumour grade was selected from the prostatectomy specimens and vessels were high-lighted by staining for factor-VIII-related antigen. MVD was quantitated in the "hot spot" area and related to biochemical failure and clinical recurrence. In moderately differentiated tumours (WHO grade) (n = 66), MVD was associated with preoperative s-PSA and positive surgical margins. In univariate 5-year analysis, microvessel density (MVDmean > 122 mm-2, median) (p = 0.0074), s-PSA, tumour dimension, capsular penetration, sem...
Anticancer research
We have evaluated the prognostic value of Ki-67 growth fraction after radical prostatectomy, espe... more We have evaluated the prognostic value of Ki-67 growth fraction after radical prostatectomy, especially focusing on intermediate grade carcinomas. 104 patients treated by radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer were studied. The area of highest tumour grade was selected from the prostatectomy specimens and used for Ki-67 immunostaining The fraction of Ki-67 positive tumour nuclei in the area of most intense proliferation ("hot spot") was estimated, and related to biochemical failure. Ki-67 expression (median 6.7%, range 1.2-42.6%) was significantly associated with WHO histological grade. In univariate analysis of all 104 carcinomas, Ki-67 expression was associated with time to biochemical failure as were age, tumour dimension, WHO histological grade, pathological stage, positive surgical margins and pre-operative s-PSA. In multivariate Cox' analysis, Ki-67 expression, pathological stage and pre-operative s-PSA remained as independent predictors o...
Urologia Internationalis
We report a case with an initial diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate in whom Cushing'... more We report a case with an initial diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate in whom Cushing's syndrome developed. The disease did not respond to estrogen treatment and the patient died of severe septicemia. Histopathologic examination of the autopsy specimens revealed a small cell carcinoma intermingled with a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma in the prostate and widespread metastases of small cell carcinoma. Immunoreactivity for neuroendocrine differentiation was found only in the small cell carcinoma. Determination of different tumor markers in plasma samples showed markedly elevated levels of prostate-specific antigen as well as carcinoembryonic antigen prior to treatment, with no significant changes after treatment. The concentration of the neuroendocrine marker chromogranin A was initially within the normal range, but increased during estrogen treatment, whilst neuron-specific enolase was moderately elevated throughout the observation period.
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Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Testes ascending from the normal scrotal position to an undescended position is common, but not w... more Testes ascending from the normal scrotal position to an undescended position is common, but not well known. The case notes of 37 boys who underwent orchidopexy between 1980 and 1994 at Nordfjordeid Hospital, Norway, were collected. None of the boys had previously undergone inguinal surgery. All patients underwent testicular examination at the time of birth. 23 boys (62%) had normally descended testes at birth but subsequently developed maldescens. According to these figures, testicular ascent is far more common than previously recorded. It is of major importance that the testicular position be examined repeatedly until the age of seven years.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 30, 1995
Prostate cancer is the most common malignant disease in men in western societies. Extracapsular s... more Prostate cancer is the most common malignant disease in men in western societies. Extracapsular spread of carcinoma is found in approximately half of the patients that are treated by radical prostatectomy. Recently, a new prostate-specific membrane glycoprotein was cloned and sequenced. A highly sensitive and specific nested reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction has been developed to detect early occult haematogeneous micrometastatic prostate cells. We analysed venous samples from 17 patients with metastatic prostate cancer using a modified reaction assay. This showed presence of micrometastatic prostate cells in 14 patients. Molecular detection of circulating prostatic epithelial cells could improve clinical staging and treatment of early prostate cancer.
Cancer research, 1982
Preoperative embolization of the renal artery has been reported to improve the survival of patien... more Preoperative embolization of the renal artery has been reported to improve the survival of patients with advanced renal carcinomas compared to operative treatment only. To investigate possible immunological consequences of tumor embolization, natural killer (NK) cell activity in peripheral blood was investigated immediately before and at different time intervals after occlusion of the renal artery by insertion of a metal coil. A slight increase in NK activity could be observed 24 hr postembolization while a marked augmentation was seen after 48 hr. The high NK activity persisted up to 96 hr after embolization, the last time period included in the study. Two patients undergoing the same procedure but in whom embolization was unsuccessful showed no alteration in NK activity. It is suggested that interferon produced by macrophages activated by the necrotizing tumor might be responsible for the augmentation of NK activity.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2009
International Journal of Oncology, 2005
Prostate carcinoma is the most common cancer of western men and is a markedly heterogeneous disea... more Prostate carcinoma is the most common cancer of western men and is a markedly heterogeneous disease. The aim of this study was to identify signatures of differentially expressed genes in prostate cancer using DNA microarray technology, evaluating expression profiles in matched pairs of benign and malignant tissue. Samples were collected from 33 radical prostatectomies, and 52 specimens were included, representing 29 histologically verified primary tumours, 19 paired samples of malignant and benign tissue, and 4 non-paired benign tissue samples. Microarray analysis was performed using an expanded sequence verified set of 40,000 human cDNA clones, revealing several genes with significant differences between malignant and benign tissue, including recently reported genes like alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase (AMACR) and hepsin, as well as genes relevant for tumour development and progression. Leave out cross validation (LOCV) test correctly predicted tumour or benign tissue in 47 (90.3%) out of 52 cases, significantly better than cross validation tests using randomly permuted tissue labels. Unsupervised clustering analysis revealed 3 distinct patient clusters significantly associated with Gleason score, and high grade tumours (Gleason score >/=7) accumulated in cluster 1 (C1). Gene expression profiles correctly predicted 100% of tumour samples segregating to C1, as also validated by LOCV. Gene expression profiles were analysed in filtered and floored datasets with similar results, and a pair-wise design was also tested. Gene expression profiles provided tumour clusters linked to differentiation, and revealed novel markers relevant for molecular classification, grading and therapy of prostate cancer.
The Prostate, 1982
Human follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), human luteinizing hormone (LH), human prolactin, testos... more Human follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), human luteinizing hormone (LH), human prolactin, testosterone, estradiol, and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) were measured in the blood of 100 consecutive new patients with prostatic carcinoma. According to the VACURG classification, 14% of the patients were in Stage I, 25% in Stage II, 25% in Stage III, and 36% in Stage IV. Within each stage the tumors were further subdivided into either highly, moderately, or poorly differentiated carcinomas. Thus the whole group consisted of 12 categories (stages and grades) of prostatic carcinoma. No specific hormonal pattern emerged which could distinguish any particular category or group of categories. We, therefore, conclude that single hormone measurements are of no practical value for diagnostic purposes related to staging and grading of prostatic carcinoma.
The Prostate, 1983
The effects of treatment of male mice with diethylstilbestrol (DES) or estramustine phosphate (EM... more The effects of treatment of male mice with diethylstilbestrol (DES) or estramustine phosphate (EMP) on the primary antibody response to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were investigated using a hemolytic plaque assay for enumeration of antibody-producing cells. DES treatment at a daily dose of 1.4 or 5.6 mg/kg from 2 days prior to and up to 3 days after immunization significantly reduced the number of anti-SRBC as well as anti-LPS-producing cells per 10(6) spleen cells. The 100 mg/kg EMP given as daily intraperitoneal injections significantly diminished the antibody response to both SRBC and LPS. No alteration in the number of anti-SRBC-producing cells per 10(6) spleen cells was detected in spleens from mice receiving 30 mg/kg/day EMP, while the number of anti-LPS-producing cells was reduced. The immunoregulatory effects of EMP are apparently not a pure estrogen effect, since treatment with doses of estradiol-17 beta equivalent to the amounts of estradiol linked to the cytotoxic moiety in 100 mg/kg/day of EMP were without effect. EMP-induced functional impairment in the T-cell population is inferred from the reduced ability of adoptively transferred T cells from EMP-exposed animals to support an antibody response to SRBC in syngeneic nude mice.
Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, 1999
Conservative treatment with low-fat diet, medium-chain triglyceride or total parenteral nutrition... more Conservative treatment with low-fat diet, medium-chain triglyceride or total parenteral nutrition, depending on the general condition of the patient, is the mainstay in the treatment of chylous ascites. In patients with persistent chylous fistula direct surgical closure is a valid treatment option.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
Metastatic tumors can prepare a distant site for colonization via the secretion of factors that a... more Metastatic tumors can prepare a distant site for colonization via the secretion of factors that act in a systemic manner. We hypothesized that non-or weakly metastatic human tumor cells may act in an opposite fashion by creating a microenvironment in distant tissues that is refractory to colonization. By comparing cell lines with different metastatic potential, we have identified a tumorsecreted inhibitor of metastasis, prosaposin (Psap), which functions in a paracrine and endocrine fashion by stimulating the expression of thrombospondin-1 (Tsp-1) in fibroblasts present in both primary tumors and distant organs, doing so in a p53dependent manner. Introduction of Psap in highly metastatic cells significantly reduced the occurrence of metastases, whereas inhibition of Psap production by tumor cells was associated with increased metastatic frequency. In human prostate cancer, decreased Psap expression was significantly associated with metastatic tumors. Our findings suggest that prosaposin, or other agents that stimulate p53 activity in the tumor stroma, may be an effective therapy by inhibition of the metastatic process.
Cancer Research
Preoperative embolization of the renal artery has been re ported to improve the survival of patie... more Preoperative embolization of the renal artery has been re ported to improve the survival of patients with advanced renal carcinomas compared to operative treatment only. To investi gate possible immunological consequences of tumor emboli zation, natural killer (NK) cell activity in peripheral blood was investigated immediately before and at different time intervals after occlusion of the renal artery by insertion of a metal coil. A slight increase in NK activity could be observed 24 hr postembolization while a marked augmentation was seen after 48 hr. The high NK activity persisted up to 96 hr after emboli zation, the last time period included in the study. Two patients undergoing the same procedure but in whom embolization was unsuccessful showed no alteration in NK activity.
Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology
To evaluate the efficacy of lymphangiography combined with fine needle aspiration biopsy and comp... more To evaluate the efficacy of lymphangiography combined with fine needle aspiration biopsy and computer tomography (CT) for lymph node staging in clinically localized prostate cancer. Prospective evaluation of nodal involvement was carried out using standard bipedal lymphangiography combined with fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in 70 patients (aged 47 to 75 years, mean age 63 years) with apparently locally confined prostate cancer before intended radical prostatectomy. Sixty-four patients also underwent computer tomography. Seventeen withdrew the decision to undergo a radical prostatectomy, leaving 53 patients with pathologic examination of the lymph nodes eligible for analysis. Lymph node metastases were diagnosed in 8 patients (8/53 = 15.1%). Three were diagnosed preoperatively by FNAB, 3 peroperatively by lymph node dissection and frozen section biopsy and an additional 2 at the final pathologic assessment. The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values for lymphangiography and lymphangiography combined with FNAB in predicting nodal disease, based on the analysis of the 53 patients with known pathologic results, were 0.63, 0.76, 0.31, 0.92 and 0.38, 1.00, 1.00, 0.90, respectively. The corresponding values for CT staging were 0.25, 0.98, 0.67 and 0.87, respectively. The efficacy of bipedal lymphangiography alone or combined with FNAB or CT alone for assessment of nodal metastases is too low to be worthwhile for lymph node staging in localized prostate cancer patients with expected low or intermediate probability of nodal disease.
Scandinavian journal of urology and nephrology. Supplementum
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was measured by polyclonal radioimmunoassay in 45 untreated patie... more Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was measured by polyclonal radioimmunoassay in 45 untreated patients with prostatic cancer and 14 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) was determined in 35 patients with prostatic cancer and 14 patients with benign hyperplasia. Serum PSA was raised in 42 patients with cancer of the prostate, but only 14 of 35 patients showed increased serum levels of PAP. Half the patients with benign prostate hyperplasia had PSA greater than 4 micrograms/l and one third had PSA greater than 10 micrograms/l. PAP was slightly elevated in two patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Serum PSA increased with the clinical stage of prostatic cancer. However, preoperative levels of PSA were not sufficiently reliable to predict the final pathological stage for each individual patient. After radical prostatectomy for cancer confined to the prostate, serum PSA fell to an undetectable level.
Scandinavian journal of urology and nephrology. Supplementum
The American journal of physiology
Microspheres of 10.90 +/- 0.65 micron (SD) were injected in the superior mesenteric artery of cat... more Microspheres of 10.90 +/- 0.65 micron (SD) were injected in the superior mesenteric artery of cats and their intramural distribution and diameter in the small intestine were studied microscopically under basal conditions and after vasodilation by isoproterenol. Approximately 2% of the spheres were shunted through the small intestinal vasculature and could be recovered in the liver. Analysis of the tissue distribution suggested that all spheres arrested in villi represented villous blood flow, spheres arrested in the crypt layer represented flow to the crypts, and the majority of microspheres trapped in the submucosa also represented crypt flow. Nutritive blood flow to the submucosa constituted only 1.5% of total intestinal flow. Log-linear analyses identified factors responsible for sphere distribution, including effects of sphere size, isoproterenol treatment, and local blood flow or vascular resistance. Spheres with diameters greater than 11.08 micron had 1.35 times larger odds than smaller spheres to embolize in the muscularis rather than in the mucosa, but no consistent difference between diameter profiles in the crypts and villi was found. With this reservation, 11-micron spheres seem to be appropriate for measuring blood flow to the muscle, crypt, and villous layers of the small intestine.
Anticancer research
Previous studies have reported a possible prognostic importance of microvessel density (MVD) in p... more Previous studies have reported a possible prognostic importance of microvessel density (MVD) in prostate cancer, although the significance after radical prostatectomy is not clear. The purpose of this study was to assess the prognostic value of MVD in clinically localized prostatic adenocarcinomas, focusing on moderately-differentiated tumours. We examined a series of 104 patients treated for presumed organ-confined cancer in the period 1988-94. The area of highest tumour grade was selected from the prostatectomy specimens and vessels were high-lighted by staining for factor-VIII-related antigen. MVD was quantitated in the "hot spot" area and related to biochemical failure and clinical recurrence. In moderately differentiated tumours (WHO grade) (n = 66), MVD was associated with preoperative s-PSA and positive surgical margins. In univariate 5-year analysis, microvessel density (MVDmean > 122 mm-2, median) (p = 0.0074), s-PSA, tumour dimension, capsular penetration, sem...
Anticancer research
We have evaluated the prognostic value of Ki-67 growth fraction after radical prostatectomy, espe... more We have evaluated the prognostic value of Ki-67 growth fraction after radical prostatectomy, especially focusing on intermediate grade carcinomas. 104 patients treated by radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer were studied. The area of highest tumour grade was selected from the prostatectomy specimens and used for Ki-67 immunostaining The fraction of Ki-67 positive tumour nuclei in the area of most intense proliferation ("hot spot") was estimated, and related to biochemical failure. Ki-67 expression (median 6.7%, range 1.2-42.6%) was significantly associated with WHO histological grade. In univariate analysis of all 104 carcinomas, Ki-67 expression was associated with time to biochemical failure as were age, tumour dimension, WHO histological grade, pathological stage, positive surgical margins and pre-operative s-PSA. In multivariate Cox' analysis, Ki-67 expression, pathological stage and pre-operative s-PSA remained as independent predictors o...
Urologia Internationalis
We report a case with an initial diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate in whom Cushing'... more We report a case with an initial diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate in whom Cushing's syndrome developed. The disease did not respond to estrogen treatment and the patient died of severe septicemia. Histopathologic examination of the autopsy specimens revealed a small cell carcinoma intermingled with a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma in the prostate and widespread metastases of small cell carcinoma. Immunoreactivity for neuroendocrine differentiation was found only in the small cell carcinoma. Determination of different tumor markers in plasma samples showed markedly elevated levels of prostate-specific antigen as well as carcinoembryonic antigen prior to treatment, with no significant changes after treatment. The concentration of the neuroendocrine marker chromogranin A was initially within the normal range, but increased during estrogen treatment, whilst neuron-specific enolase was moderately elevated throughout the observation period.
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Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Testes ascending from the normal scrotal position to an undescended position is common, but not w... more Testes ascending from the normal scrotal position to an undescended position is common, but not well known. The case notes of 37 boys who underwent orchidopexy between 1980 and 1994 at Nordfjordeid Hospital, Norway, were collected. None of the boys had previously undergone inguinal surgery. All patients underwent testicular examination at the time of birth. 23 boys (62%) had normally descended testes at birth but subsequently developed maldescens. According to these figures, testicular ascent is far more common than previously recorded. It is of major importance that the testicular position be examined repeatedly until the age of seven years.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 30, 1995
Prostate cancer is the most common malignant disease in men in western societies. Extracapsular s... more Prostate cancer is the most common malignant disease in men in western societies. Extracapsular spread of carcinoma is found in approximately half of the patients that are treated by radical prostatectomy. Recently, a new prostate-specific membrane glycoprotein was cloned and sequenced. A highly sensitive and specific nested reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction has been developed to detect early occult haematogeneous micrometastatic prostate cells. We analysed venous samples from 17 patients with metastatic prostate cancer using a modified reaction assay. This showed presence of micrometastatic prostate cells in 14 patients. Molecular detection of circulating prostatic epithelial cells could improve clinical staging and treatment of early prostate cancer.
Cancer research, 1982
Preoperative embolization of the renal artery has been reported to improve the survival of patien... more Preoperative embolization of the renal artery has been reported to improve the survival of patients with advanced renal carcinomas compared to operative treatment only. To investigate possible immunological consequences of tumor embolization, natural killer (NK) cell activity in peripheral blood was investigated immediately before and at different time intervals after occlusion of the renal artery by insertion of a metal coil. A slight increase in NK activity could be observed 24 hr postembolization while a marked augmentation was seen after 48 hr. The high NK activity persisted up to 96 hr after embolization, the last time period included in the study. Two patients undergoing the same procedure but in whom embolization was unsuccessful showed no alteration in NK activity. It is suggested that interferon produced by macrophages activated by the necrotizing tumor might be responsible for the augmentation of NK activity.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2009
International Journal of Oncology, 2005
Prostate carcinoma is the most common cancer of western men and is a markedly heterogeneous disea... more Prostate carcinoma is the most common cancer of western men and is a markedly heterogeneous disease. The aim of this study was to identify signatures of differentially expressed genes in prostate cancer using DNA microarray technology, evaluating expression profiles in matched pairs of benign and malignant tissue. Samples were collected from 33 radical prostatectomies, and 52 specimens were included, representing 29 histologically verified primary tumours, 19 paired samples of malignant and benign tissue, and 4 non-paired benign tissue samples. Microarray analysis was performed using an expanded sequence verified set of 40,000 human cDNA clones, revealing several genes with significant differences between malignant and benign tissue, including recently reported genes like alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase (AMACR) and hepsin, as well as genes relevant for tumour development and progression. Leave out cross validation (LOCV) test correctly predicted tumour or benign tissue in 47 (90.3%) out of 52 cases, significantly better than cross validation tests using randomly permuted tissue labels. Unsupervised clustering analysis revealed 3 distinct patient clusters significantly associated with Gleason score, and high grade tumours (Gleason score >/=7) accumulated in cluster 1 (C1). Gene expression profiles correctly predicted 100% of tumour samples segregating to C1, as also validated by LOCV. Gene expression profiles were analysed in filtered and floored datasets with similar results, and a pair-wise design was also tested. Gene expression profiles provided tumour clusters linked to differentiation, and revealed novel markers relevant for molecular classification, grading and therapy of prostate cancer.
The Prostate, 1982
Human follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), human luteinizing hormone (LH), human prolactin, testos... more Human follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), human luteinizing hormone (LH), human prolactin, testosterone, estradiol, and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) were measured in the blood of 100 consecutive new patients with prostatic carcinoma. According to the VACURG classification, 14% of the patients were in Stage I, 25% in Stage II, 25% in Stage III, and 36% in Stage IV. Within each stage the tumors were further subdivided into either highly, moderately, or poorly differentiated carcinomas. Thus the whole group consisted of 12 categories (stages and grades) of prostatic carcinoma. No specific hormonal pattern emerged which could distinguish any particular category or group of categories. We, therefore, conclude that single hormone measurements are of no practical value for diagnostic purposes related to staging and grading of prostatic carcinoma.
The Prostate, 1983
The effects of treatment of male mice with diethylstilbestrol (DES) or estramustine phosphate (EM... more The effects of treatment of male mice with diethylstilbestrol (DES) or estramustine phosphate (EMP) on the primary antibody response to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were investigated using a hemolytic plaque assay for enumeration of antibody-producing cells. DES treatment at a daily dose of 1.4 or 5.6 mg/kg from 2 days prior to and up to 3 days after immunization significantly reduced the number of anti-SRBC as well as anti-LPS-producing cells per 10(6) spleen cells. The 100 mg/kg EMP given as daily intraperitoneal injections significantly diminished the antibody response to both SRBC and LPS. No alteration in the number of anti-SRBC-producing cells per 10(6) spleen cells was detected in spleens from mice receiving 30 mg/kg/day EMP, while the number of anti-LPS-producing cells was reduced. The immunoregulatory effects of EMP are apparently not a pure estrogen effect, since treatment with doses of estradiol-17 beta equivalent to the amounts of estradiol linked to the cytotoxic moiety in 100 mg/kg/day of EMP were without effect. EMP-induced functional impairment in the T-cell population is inferred from the reduced ability of adoptively transferred T cells from EMP-exposed animals to support an antibody response to SRBC in syngeneic nude mice.
Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, 1999
Conservative treatment with low-fat diet, medium-chain triglyceride or total parenteral nutrition... more Conservative treatment with low-fat diet, medium-chain triglyceride or total parenteral nutrition, depending on the general condition of the patient, is the mainstay in the treatment of chylous ascites. In patients with persistent chylous fistula direct surgical closure is a valid treatment option.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
Metastatic tumors can prepare a distant site for colonization via the secretion of factors that a... more Metastatic tumors can prepare a distant site for colonization via the secretion of factors that act in a systemic manner. We hypothesized that non-or weakly metastatic human tumor cells may act in an opposite fashion by creating a microenvironment in distant tissues that is refractory to colonization. By comparing cell lines with different metastatic potential, we have identified a tumorsecreted inhibitor of metastasis, prosaposin (Psap), which functions in a paracrine and endocrine fashion by stimulating the expression of thrombospondin-1 (Tsp-1) in fibroblasts present in both primary tumors and distant organs, doing so in a p53dependent manner. Introduction of Psap in highly metastatic cells significantly reduced the occurrence of metastases, whereas inhibition of Psap production by tumor cells was associated with increased metastatic frequency. In human prostate cancer, decreased Psap expression was significantly associated with metastatic tumors. Our findings suggest that prosaposin, or other agents that stimulate p53 activity in the tumor stroma, may be an effective therapy by inhibition of the metastatic process.