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The impact of the AB0 and the Rhesus blood group system on outcomes in bladder cancer patients treated with radical cystectomy

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Abstract

Purpose

To investigate the impact of the AB0 and the Rhesus blood group system on outcomes of urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB) patients treated with radical cystectomy (RC).

Methods

We included 511 UCB patients treated with RC without neoadjuvant chemotherapy from 1996 to 2011 at our institution. Cox and logistic regression models assessed the association of the AB0 blood group antigen and Rhesus factor expression with tumor biologic features and outcomes, respectively.

Results

In total, 216 patients (42.3 %) had the blood group antigen A0, 73 patients (14.3 %) the antigen B0, 33 patients (6.4 %) the antigen AB and 189 patients (37.0 %) the antigen 00. In addition, 414 patients (81.0 %) were Rhesus factor positive. The AB0 blood group antigen expression was associated with a higher tumor grade (p = 0.003). In contrast, the Rhesus factor was not associated with any clinicopathologic characteristics. Neither the AB0 blood group antigens nor the Rhesus factor was associated with survival. In a sensitivity analysis of patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, however, the blood group antigen AB expression was associated with reduced cancer-specific and overall survival.

Conclusion

The AB0 blood group antigens and the Rhesus factor are not associated with survival. Although the AB0 blood groups and the Rhesus factor are analyzed in every patient treated with RC, they do not represent appropriate biomarkers for UCB outcome prognostication. The association of the AB0 blood group antigens with response to adjuvant chemotherapy requires further validation.

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Acknowledgments

Dr. Michael Rink is supported by the GEROK research Grant of the University of Hamburg.

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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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The study was approved by the institutional review board and does not contain human studies.

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    1. Department of Urology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

      Oliver Engel, Armin Soave, Luis A. Kluth, Marianne Schmid, Roland Dahlem, Margit Fisch & Michael Rink

    2. Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

      Sven Peine

    3. Department of Urology, University Medical Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria

      Shahrokh F. Shariat

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    Engel, O., Soave, A., Peine, S. et al. The impact of the AB0 and the Rhesus blood group system on outcomes in bladder cancer patients treated with radical cystectomy. World J Urol 33, 1769–1776 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-015-1531-6

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