High expression level of EDIL3 in HCC predicts poor prognosis of HCC patients

AIM:To determine the role of epidermal growth factor-like repeats and discoidin I-like domains 3(EDIL3)in pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)by investigating the EDIL3 expression in HCC and its prognostic value for HCC.METHODS:EDIL3 expression was detected in 101 HCC surgical tissue samples with immunohistochemistry method,and its relation with clinicopathologic features and prognosis of HCC patients was analyzed.RESULTS:EDIL3 was highly expressed in 48.5%of the HCC patients.Although the EDIL3 expression level did not correlate with any clinicopathological parameters,KaplanMeier survival analysis showed that high expression level of EDIL3 resulted in a significantly poor prognosis of HCC patients(log-rank test,P=0.010).Multivariate Cox’s analysis showed that the EDIL3 expression level was a significant and independent prognostic parameter for the overall survival rate of HCC patients(hazard ratio=1.978,95%confidence interval =1.139-3.435,P=0.015).CONCLUSION:High expression level of EDIL3 pre-dicts poor prognosis of HCC patients.EDIL3 may be a potential target of antiangiogenic therapy for HCC.