• Annals of surgery · Dec 2014

    Sequential occurrence of preneoplastic lesions and accumulation of loss of heterozygosity in patients with gallbladder stones suggest causal association with gallbladder cancer.

    • Kajal Jain, Trilochan Mohapatra, Prasenjit Das, Mahesh Chandra Misra, Siddhartha Datta Gupta, Manju Ghosh, Madhulika Kabra, Virinder Kumar Bansal, Subodh Kumar, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, and Pramod Kumar Garg.
    • *Departments of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India †Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India; Departments of ‡Pathology §Surgery ¶Pediatrics (Genetics unit), and ‖Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
    • Ann. Surg.. 2014 Dec 1;260(6):1073-80.

    BackgroundCausal association of gallbladder stones with gallbladder cancer (GBC) is not yet well established.ObjectiveTo study the frequency of occurrence of preneoplastic histological lesions and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of tumor suppressor genes in patients with gallstones.MethodsAll consecutive patients with gallstones undergoing cholecystectomy from 2007-2011 were included prospectively. Histological examination of the gallbladder specimens was done for preneoplastic lesions. LOH at 8 loci, that is 3p12, 3p14.2, 5q21, 9p21, 9q, 13q, 17p13, and 18q for tumor suppressor genes (DUTT1, FHIT, APC, p16, FCMD, RB1, p53, and DCC genes) that are associated with GBC was tested from microdissected preneoplastic lesions using microsatellite markers. These LOH were also tested in 30 GBC specimens.ResultsOf the 350 gallbladder specimens from gallstone patients, hyperplasia was found in 32%, metaplasia in 47.8%, dysplasia in 15.7%, and carcinoma in situ in 0.6%. Hyperplasia, metaplasia, and dysplasia alone were found in 11.7%, 24.6%, and 1.4% of patients, respectively. A combination of hyperplasia and dysplasia, metaplasia and dysplasia, and hyperplasia, metaplasia, and dysplasia was found in 3.4%, 6.3%, and 4.3% of patients, respectively. LOH was present in 2.1% to 47.8% of all the preneoplastic lesions at different loci. Fractional allelic loss was significantly higher in those with dysplasia compared with other preneoplastic lesions (0.31 vs 0.22; P = 0.042). No preneoplastic lesion or LOH was found in normal gallbladders.ConclusionsPatients with gallstones had a high frequency of preneoplastic lesions and accumulation of LOH at various tumor suppressor genes, suggesting a possible causal association of gallstones with GBC.

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