Persistant Organics Pollutants (POP) accumulate in the adipose tissue (AT) and could modulate tumor progression as part of the microenvironment. The investigators tested the hypothesis that POPs exposure may be associated with breast cancer metastasis analyzing the concentrations of 46 POPs in both adipose tissue and serum samples from breast tumor patients (benign, malignant with and without lymph node metastasis)
The investigators set up a longitudinal prospective monocentric cohort study in the gynecologic-oncologic surgery department of European Hospital Georges-Pompidou, with patients undergoing partial or total mastectomies, lymph node biopsies or axillary lymph node removal and sampling of the adipocytic tumour microenvironment to measure POPs using gas chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry. The objective is to analyze the concentrations of 46 POPs including polychlorinated dibenzo(p)dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybromodiphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polybromobiphenyls (PBBs) in both adipose tissue (AT) and serum samples from breast tumor patients (benign, malignant with and without lymph node metastasis).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
80
Metastatic lymph node status based of persistant organic pollutants level measured by by gas chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry.
Correlation between 1) the concentrations of 46 persistant organic pollutants (including polychlorinated dibenzo(p)dioxin and furan, PCBs, polybromodiphenyl ethers and polybromobiphenyls measured by by gas chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry on double sector instruments (JEOL MS 700D and 800D) after electron impact ionization (70 eV), operating at 10000 resolutions (10% valley) and in the single ion monitoring (SIM) acquisition mode) in both adipose tissue and serum samples and 2) breast cancer status (with and without lymph node metastasis)
Time frame: Sampling the day of surgery
Pro metastatic genes messenger ribonucleic acid (mARN) expression in the tumor based of metastatic lymph node status and persistant pollutants level.
Correlation between the mRNA levels of metastatic biomarkers measured by quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction amplification (PCR) in tumors (based of metastatic lymph node status) and the levels of persistant organic pollutants measured by gas chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry. List of genes measured : Epithelial-to-mesenchymal (ECadherin, SNAIL, SLUG), matrix metalloproteases, metabolism, vascular endothelial grown factor, stem-cell properties, hormon receptor, inflammatory genes, xenobiotic receptor Aryl Hydrocarbon receptor (AhR).
Time frame: 2 years
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