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Background  Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a critical pro-angiogenic factor, found in a number of cancers, and a target of therapy. It is typically assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in clinical research. However, IHC is not a quantitative assay and is rarely reproducible. We compared VEGF levels in colon cancer by IHC and a quantitative immunoassay on proteins isolated from formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissues.    Results  VEGF expression was studied by means of a well-based reverse phase protein array (RPPA) and immunohistochemistry in 69 colon cancer cases, and compared with various clinicopathologic factors. Protein lysates derived from formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissue contained measurable immunoreactive VEGF molecules. The VEGF expression level of well differentiated colon cancer was significantly higher than those with moderately and poorly differentiated carcinomas by immunohistochemistry ( P  = 0.04) and well-based RPPA ( P  = 0.04). VEGF quantification by well-based RPPA also demonstrated an association with nodal metastasis status ( P  = 0.05). In addition, the normalized VEGF value by well-based RPPA correlated ( r  = 0.283,  P  = 0.018). Furthermore, subgroup analysis by histologic type revealed that adenocarcinoma cases showed significant correlation ( r  = 0.315,  P  = 0.031) between well-based RPPA and IHC.    Conclusions  The well-based RPPA method is a high throughput and sensitive approach, is an excellent tool for quantification of marker proteins. Notably, this method may be helpful for more objective evaluation of protein expression in cancer patients.

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Assessment of vascular endothelial growth factor in formalin fixed, paraffin embedded colon cancer specimens by means of a well-based reverse phase protein array