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MOR-1 Expression in Colorectal Cancer and Disease-free Survival Relationship. Five-year Follow-up.

NCT03601351 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 174

Last updated 2019-12-17

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Summary

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a global burden and one of the most frequent types of cancer. Colorectal cancer therapy is complex and surgery remains the cornerstone for its treatment, combined with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. At diagnosis time, stage II / III is the predominant . There is a growing interest on the potential effect of perioperative anesthetic management on cancer growth and spread. Preclinical studies suggest that opioids could promote direct tumor growth, angiogenesis, metastasis and immunosuppression of cellular and humoral responses, mainly mediated by Mu opioid receptor 1 (MOR-1) activation. Association between increased expression of MOR-1and or perioperative opioids use and shorter DFS or OS has been demonstrated in lung, prostate, gastric and esophagus cancers. Furthermore a pooled analysis suggested that methylnaltrexone, a peripherally acting Mu-opioid receptor antagonist (PAMORA) was associated with increased survival in patients with advanced cancer.

Thus, the expression of the MOR-1 is an indicator of poor prognosis in some cancer types, but its relevance in colon cancer is unknown. The hypothesis of this study is that the increased MOR-1expression in tumor samples from colorectal cancer could be associated to poor disease free survival.

These findings would be of great clinical relevance in order to avoid perioperative opioid use in oncological patients. Moreover PAMORAs could be a valuable tool in perioperative antitumor treatment, since currently these drugs are currently used with confirmed tolerability and low adverse effects in the management of opioid-induced constipation (Opioid Induced Constipation-OIC). Besides MOR 1 expression could constitute a biomarker that guide the investigators to perform neoadjuvant therapy.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

ELISA for MOR-1 expression

To evaluate MOR-1 expression differences by immunohistochemical analysis (ELISA - semiquantitative) in paraffin samples from patients with colorectal cancer stage II / III submitted scheduled colorectal surgery between the tumor tissue and the adjacent nontumorous tissue.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Universitario La Fe

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • OSCAR DIAZ-CAMBRONERO, MD · Hospital Universitario La Fe

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-04
Primary Completion
2019-05-31
Completion
2019-05-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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