The identification of reliable prognostic markers that distinguish patients' status and predict therapeutic response can improve the clinical outcomes of pancreatic cancer patients. The epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is known to be highly expressed in cancers and serves as a prognosis factor. Generally, membranous EpCAM expression in cancer cells and its clinical significance are eva...

Increasing evidence supports the important role of cancer stem cells (CSCs). Many reports suggest that epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a useful marker for cancer stem cells in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). To elucidate the mechanisms of cancer stem cells, the development of specific molecular targeted drugs has become very important. In the present study, we examined the EpCAM ex...

To the editor: Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) was originally discovered in 1979, then, subsequent studies identified that EpCAM is a type I transmembrane glycoprotein that acts as an epithelial-specific cell-adhesion molecule [1]. Although the precise function of EpCAM remains largely unknown, its role is not limited to cell adhesion as it is also involved in cellular signaling, cell...

EpCAM is expressed at low levels in a variety of normal human epithelial tissues, but is overexpressed in 70-90% of carcinomas. From a clinico-pathological point of view, this has both prognostic and therapeutic significance. EpCAM was first suggested as a therapeutic target for the treatment of epithelial cancers in the 1990s. However, following several immunotherapy trials, the results have b...

Efficient treatment of disseminated ovarian cancer (OC) is challenging due to its heterogeneity and chemoresistance. Overexpression human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) in approx. 30% 70% cancers, respectively, allows for co-targeted treatment. The clinical efficacy the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab patients with HER2-positive breast, gastr...

The co-ordinated regulation of oncogenes along with miRNAs play crucial role in carcinogenesis. In retinoblastoma (RB), several miRNAs are known to be differentially expressed. Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) gene is involved in many epithelial cancers including, retinoblastoma (RB) tumorigenesis. EpCAM silencing effectively reduces the oncogenic miR-17-92 cluster. In order to investi...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have revealed that a small subset of Lynch syndrome-associated colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) is caused by a germline EPCAM deletion-induced MSH2 epimutation. Based on the finding of this genetic alteration, we investigated the implications of EPCAM expression changes in microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) CRCs. METHODS Expression of EPCAM and DNA mismatch repair p...

Previous study showed that expression of epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) was significantly upregulated in porcine induced pluripotent stem cells (piPSCs). However, the regulatory mechanism and the downstream target genes of EpCAM were not well investigated. In this study, we found that EpCAM was undetectable in fibroblasts, but highly expressed in piPSCs. Promoter of EpCAM was upregul...

Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a type I transmembrane protein that is expressed in the majority of normal epithelial tissues and is overexpressed in most epithelial cancers including breast cancer, where it plays an important role in cancer progression. However, the mechanism by which EpCAM promotes the progression of breast cancer is not understood. In this study, we found that E...