Recent morphologic and molecular genetic studies have led to a paradigm shift in our conceptualization of the carcinogenesis and histogenesis of pelvic (non-uterine) serous carcinomas. It appears that both low-grade and high-grade pelvic serous carcinomas that have traditionally been classified as ovarian in origin, actually originate, at least in a significant subset, from the distal fallopian tube. Clonal expansions of the tubal secretory cell probably give rise to serous carcinomas, and the degree of ciliated conversion is a function of the degree to which the genetic hits deregulate normal differentiation. In this article, the authors review the evidentiary basis for aforementioned paradigm shift, as well as its potential clinical implications.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/610182 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Li, Jie, Fadare, Oluwole, Xiang, Li, Kong, Beihua, Zheng, Wenxin |
| Contributors | Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, 107 W. Wenhua Road, Jinan, Shandong, China 250012, Department of Pathology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, Department of Pathology, University of Arizona, 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, #5224A, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA |
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Rights | © 2012 Li et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) |
| Relation | http://www.jhoonline.org/content/5/1/8 |
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