MATERIALS AND METHODS

Patients and follow-up

This study evaluated NSCLC patients who underwent surgical resection between January 2007 and December 2012. Among them, 203 NSCLC had complete available medical records, original hematoxylin and eosin slides, and paraffin-embedded tissue blocks. Clinical information including smoking history and postoperative follow-up was obtained by reviewing the medical records. The pathologic diagnosis and staging were reviewed according to the 8th American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system and World Health Organization classification [7]. The classification of smoking status follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, and the status categories were “Never,” “Former” (adults who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, but say they currently do not smoke), or “Current” (adults who have smoked 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smoke cigarettes). This study was approved by the institutional review board of Chonbuk National University Hospital (CUH 2017-09-029-001). All samples derived from the National Biobank of Korea were obtained with informed consent under institutional review board-approved protocols.

Immunohistochemical staining and scoring

Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue of NSCLC patients were used to establish tissue microarrays. Original hematoxylin and eosin slides were reviewed, and one 3.0-mm-sized core from the representative area was taken. The tissue sections were deparaffinized and boiled in an antigen retrieval solution (citrate, pH 6.0) for 20 minutes in a cooker. The primary antibodies for 8-OHdG (1:200, N45.1, JaiCA, Shizuoka, Japan), p53 (1:800, DO-7, Leica, London, UK), and Ki-67 (1:100, MIB-1, Dako, Glustrup, Denmark) were used for immunohistochemical staining. The slides that had been stained for 8-OHdG, p53, and Ki-67 were evaluated by two pathologists (M.J.C. and A.R.A.) who had no clinicopathologic information on the patients. Immunohistochemical staining was evaluated to estimate the nuclear positivity of tumor cells for each marker, and the stained area was semiquantitatively recorded for the area of positive cells in 5% increments.

Immunohistochemical staining for 8-OHdG and Ki-67 was considered positive when ≥ 5% and ≥ 10% of the tumor cells showed moderate to strong nuclear staining, respectively. The cut-off points for the immunohistochemical staining score were determined by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. It has recently been reported that immunohistochemical staining for p53 can be used as a surrogate for TP53 mutation analysis [8,9]. Complete negative and high expression showed strong correlation with TP53 mutation [8,9]. We categorized immunohistochemical results for p53 into three groups as negative, low (1%– 50% positively stained nuclei), and high (> 50% positively stained nuclei) as previously reported [10]. Then, p53 immunohistochemical staining was defined as “aberrant expression” in the p53 negative and high expression group and “wild type expression” in the p53 low expression group [10].

Statistical analysis

ROC curve analysis was used to determine the cut-off points for immunohistochemical staining. The cutoff points for 8-OHdG– and Ki-67–positivity were determined at the point with the highest area under the curve (AUC) to estimate survival of NSCLC patients. Because the ROC curve is a plot of the true positive rate (sensitivity) versus the false positive rate (1–specificity) for determination of patient death, the cutoff level for the ideal test is presented as sensitivity 1 and specificity 1 (AUC, 1.000). Therefore, we chose the cut-off point at the highest AUC value.

The date of last follow-up was recorded as the last contact or the death of patients through August 2017. The prognosis of NSCLC patients was evaluated by analyzing overall survival (OS). The death of the patient from lung cancer was considered an event for OS analysis. SPSS software ver. 22.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) was used to perform statistical analysis for the univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression analyses, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, and Pearson’s chi-square test. The p-values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant.

RESULTS

Correlations between 8-OHdG expression and clinicopathologic parameters of NSCLC patients

In this study, the NSCLC used consisted of 94 squamous cell carcinomas and 109 adenocarcinomas. The mean age of the study subjects was 65 years. In all, 72.4% of the subjects were male, and 27.3% were female. Expression of 8-OHdG was found exclusively in nuclei of tumor cells and was positive in 83.3% (169/203) of NSCLC samples (Table 1, Fig. 1). The positive expression of 8-OHdG was significantly associated with female, adenocarcinoma, smaller tumor size, lower T group, negative lymph node status, and never-smoker (p < .05) (Table 1). The expression of 8-OHdG was high in never-smoker (89.5%) compared to smoker (73.4%) (p = .003).

For p53 immunohistochemistry, 18% (37/203), 30% (60/203), and 52% (106/203) of cases were categorized as p53 negative, p53 low, and p53 high groups, respectively. Analysis was performed on the correlations between p53 staining pattern and clinicopathological features of NSCLC patients, and p53 aberrant expression was significantly correlated with male, smoker, squamous cell carcinoma, and Ki-67 positivity (p < .05) (Table 2). The p53 wild-type expression was high in never-smoker (39.5%) compared to smoker (13.9%), and p53 aberrant expression was 86.1% (68/79) in smoker and 60.5% (75/124) in never-smoker (p < .001). The p53 aberrant expression rate was 87.2% in squamous cell carcinoma and 56% in lung adenocarcinoma. In the 8-OHdG negative group, p53 aberrant expression pattern was more frequent (82.4%, 28/34) than in the 8-OHdG positive group (68%, 115/169) but not to an extent that was statistically significant (p = .095). Comparing the p53 wild-type and the p53 aberrant patients, there was no significant difference in tumor stage or lymph node stage.

NSCLC patients with negative 8-OHdG expression had shorter OS by univariate analysis

When univariate Cox proportional regression analysis was performed for the survival of NSCLC patients, older age (≥ 65), male, smoker, higher tumor stage, presence of lymph node metastasis, 8-OHdG negativity and p53 aberrant expression, and Ki-67 positivity showed significant association with shorter OS of NSCLC patients by univariate analysis (Table 3). The patients with 8-OHdG negativity showed 1.847-fold (95% confidence interval [95% CI], 1.054 to 3.236; p = .032) greater risk of death. Smoking (former and current) predicted a 3.926-fold (95% CI, 2.302 to 6.697; p < .001) greater risk of death than the never-smoker group. The p53 aberrant expression group predicted a 2.031-fold (95% CI, 1.057 to 3.900; p = .033) greater risk of death than the p53 wild-type group. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to analyze the prognostic impact of the expression of 8-OHdG, p53, and Ki-67 and smoking and tumor stage on OS, and the results are presented in Fig. 2.

The multivariate analysis included the factors that showed p-value lower than .05 in univariate analysis (sex, age, smoking, T category, lymph node stage, p53 expression, Ki-67 expression, and 8-OHdG expression). Age older than 65, smoker, and higher T category in the TNM stage system were independent poor prognostic factors for OS of NSCLC patients (Table 4). However, multivariate analysis did not indicate that 8-OHdG expression was an independent prognostic factor associated with OS for NSCLC.

DISCUSSION

In this study, we investigated the immunohistochemical expression of 8-OHdG and p53 in human NSCLC tissues. Our results show that (1) expression of 8-OHdG was observed in 83.3% of NSCLC tissue; (2) expression of 8-OHdG was significantly associated with low T category, negative lymph node status, and never-smoker; (3) expression of 8-OHdG was significantly associated with longer OS by univariate and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis; (4) p53 aberrant expression closely correlated with smoker, male, squamous cell carcinoma, and Ki-67 positivity.

CS induces oxidative stress, which can cause severe DNA damage and is known as an important carcinogenic mechanism linked to NSCLC. It is challenging to perform a direct measurement of reactive oxygen species (ROS) because of their short lifetime and rapid degradation and removal by cellular defense mechanisms. Therefore, a useful method to assess ROS is to use antibodies against the specific “footprints” of oxidative damage. The oxidative damage of DNA by ROS produces 8-OHdG, and this serves as an established footprint of oxidative stress. Increased levels of 8-OHdG are associated with the aging process as well as with a number of pathological conditions including cancer, diabetes, and hypertension [2].

The overexpression of 8-OHdG has been reported in a variety of cancers, including breast cancer, lung cancer, bladder cancer, colorectal cancer, renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, and gastric adenocarcinoma [4,11-15]. Reports have predominantly indicated that overexpression of 8-OHdG is associated with unfavorable prognostic factors and/or poor patient prognosis. However, some studies reported different results. Negative 8-OHdG expression was associated with an aggressive breast cancer phenotype, and some reports have found no difference in 8-OHdG level between cancer patients and healthy subjects [4,16-18]. Therefore, there is controversy surrounding the clinical significance of 8-OHdG expression. Our results showed that tumors with positive expression of 8-OHdG were significantly associated with favorable clinicopathologic factors and longer OS in NSCLC patients. We considered the following possibilities as the cause of the different results. In many of the previous studies, 8-OHdG was measured in urine or at the serum level, not in cancer tissue. It is known that the method of measuring the absolute amount of 8-OHdG in urine or serum can be influenced by artificial production of 8-OHdG in the sample preparation stage [19,20]. Also, a previous study showed that serum and urinary levels of 8-OHdG did not associate with those found in the tissues [21]. We detected 8-OHdG expression using immunohistochemistry because immunohistochemical procedures allow detection of 8-OHdG at the single-cell level, which has the advantage of directly confirming its expression in cancer cells in tissues composed of different cell populations [22]. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to use immunohistochemistry to investigate the correlation between 8-OHdG expression and prognosis in NSCLC patients.

Several possible mechanisms may be behind the inverse association of 8-OHdG level and tumor aggressiveness. Sova et al. [4] have insisted that the increase in ROS induces the overproduction of antioxidant enzymes, thereby avoiding the death of tumor cells and inducing tumor growth. Overproduction of antioxidant enzymes would prevent ROS interaction with DNA, leading to decreased formation of 8-OHdG at the tissue level, as suggested by their results [4]. Another reasonable possibility we suggest is that cancer tissue is generally hypoxic, which is predicted to be the reason for low ROS in cancer cells, because oxygen is needed for production of ROS. Thus, ROS production is low in rapidly growing cancers, leading to a decrease in the production of 8-OHdG, which may explain the poor prognosis of negative 8-OHdG in NSCLC patients in this study. Although there was no statistical significance, the association between positive 8-OHdG and negative Ki-67 (p = .084) in this study may support this hypothesis. Previous studies showed that ROS-mediated DNA damage plays a role in the initiation of carcinogenesis as well as in malignant transformation [17,23]. The expression of 8-OHdG decreased significantly in invasive breast carcinomas compared to non-invasive lesions, namely usual ductal hyperplasia, atypical ductal hyperplasia, and ductal carcinoma in situ [17]. To support the hypothesis that ROS-mediated DNA damage may be involved in the early stages of cancer development rather than cancer progression, examination of 8-OHdG expression in pre-cancerous lesions or pre-invasive lung cancer lesions is necessary. In addition, a DNA repair enzyme assessment is needed to clarify the fundamental background behind the current results.

In this study, expression of 8-OHdG was significantly associated with never-smoker (p = .003). We cannot explain the exact mechanism for the relationship between never-smokers and 8-OHdG expression in this study. However, we inferred some possibilities based on the results of other researchers. The formation of carboxyhemoglobin in smokers can lower the ability of hemoglobin to deliver O2 (toxic hypoxia) and result in hypoxia. In turn, this can reduce ROS formation and lower the expression of 8-OHdG [24,25]. The association between smoking and low 8-OHdG may also be explained by smoking-induced oxidative stress, i.e., overproduction of antioxidant enzymes. The state of the smoking-ROS-8-OHdG axis in the mechanism of NSCLC development by smoking is thought to be regulated by more complex regulatory mechanisms, including the functional status of ROS and antioxidant enzymes and the hypoxic environment of cancer.

DNA adduct formation and oncogenic mutation in lung epithelial cells are caused by chronic exposure to carcinogens in CS, and the accumulation of mutations is known to be involved in lung cancer development. TP53 mutation is an important mutation associated with CS exposure, and loss of wild-type p53 function and increased mutant p53 function due to TP53 mutation are important in NSCLC carcinogenesis. It has recently been reported that immunohistochemical staining for p53 can be used as a surrogate for TP53 mutation analysis [8]. In this study, p53 immunohistochemical staining was classified as wild or aberrant expression, and the correlation between p53 staining pattern and clinicopathologic features of NSCLC patients was analyzed. The p53 aberrant expression rate was 87.2% in squamous cell carcinoma and 56% in lung adenocarcinoma (data not shown). Our results are consistent with another report that found p53 mutations in 46% of lung adenocarcinomas and 81% of squamous cell carcinomas [5]. The p53 aberrant expression is closely correlated with smoker (p = .000), male (p = .000), squamous cell carcinoma (p = .000), and Ki-67 positivity (p = .003). Further studies are needed to determine the concordance of p53 immunohistochemistry with TP53 mutations in NSCLC to confirm our assertion.

In conclusion, this study has demonstrated the expression of 8-OHdG and p53 in NSCLC and its relationship with clinicopathologic factors and patient survival. Univariate analysis revealed that expression of 8-OHdG was significantly associated with longer OS. Smoking is an important inducer of oxidative stress, but it was not associated with increased expression of 8-OHdG in this study, suggesting that more complex regulatory mechanisms regulate 8-OHdG expression in cancer, including the functional status of the antioxidant enzyme and the hypoxic environment of cancer. The aberrant expression patterns of p53 immunohistochemical staining showed significant associations with smoking status.

Acknowledgments

Fig. 1.

Immunohistochemical expression of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) in non-small cell carcinomas. Expression of 8-OHdG in nuclei of tumor cells. (A, B) Adenocarcinoma. (C, D) Squamous cell carcinoma.

Fig. 2.

Kaplan-Meier survival analysis of non-small cell lung carcinoma patients. Overall survival in 203 patients according to the expression of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) (A), p53 (B), Ki-67 (C), smoking history (D), and T category (American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8th edition) (E).

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