Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found a new biomarker for glioma, a common type of brain cancer, that can help doctors determine how aggressive a cancer is and that could eventually help determine the best course of treatment. The findings are published in EBiomedicine.
Researchers from the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center found that high expression of a gene called SHOX2 predicted poor survival in intermediate-grade gliomas. “As an independent biomarker, SHOX2 expression is as potent as the currently best and widely used marker known as IDH mutations,” said Dr. Adi Gazdar, Professor of Pathology in the Nancy B. and Jake L. Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology and a member of the Simmons Cancer Center.
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“Our findings are based on analysis of previously published studies. They will have to be confirmed in prospective studies, and their clinical contribution and method of use remain to be determined,” said Dr. Gazdar, who holds the W. Ray Wallace Distinguished Chair in Molecular Oncology Research.
Citation: “SHOX2 is a Potent Independent Biomarker to Predict Survival of WHO Grade II–III Diffuse Gliomas”. Yu-An Zhang1, Yunyun Zhou1, Xin Luo, Kai Song, Xiaotu Ma, Adwait Sathe, Luc Girard, Guanghua Xiao and Adi F Gazdar. EBioMedicine 2016 vol: 13 pp: 80-89.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.10.040
Research funding: NIH
Adapted from press release by UT Southwestern Medical Center.