Abstract:Objective To investigate the expression of SIRT1 in liposarcomas of extremities and its relationship with prognosis.Methods A retrospective case-control study was used. The expression of SIRT1 protein in liposarcomas of 67 patients with limb liposarcoma was detected by immunohistochemical SP method, and compared with 11 cases of lung metastases and 30 cases of normal lipoma. In addition, the clinical pathology features and prognosis of patients with Liposarcoma of extremities were analyzed.Results The positive expression rates of SIRT1 protein were 10.00%, 59.70%, and 90.91% in lipoma, liposarcoma, liposarcoma with lung metastases, respectively, with significant difference (P < 0.05), and the positive expression rate of SIRT1 protein in liposarcomas and liposarcomas with lung metastasis was significantly higher than that in lipomas of Limbs (P < 0.014), the positive expression rate of SIRT1 protein in liposarcomas with lung metastasis was higher than that in liposarcomas (P < 0.014). There were no significant differences in the expression of SIRT1 protein in different sex, age, tumor size, and location (P > 0.05). There were significant differences in the expression of SIRT1 protein among different tumor depths, Enneking stage, pathological types, and patients with or without Pulmonary Metastasis (P < 0.05). Among 40 SIRT1 positive patients, 13 survived, 27 died, the minimum total survival time was 2 months, the longest total survival time was 74 months. Among the 27 SIRT1 negative patients, 20 survived and 7 died. The minimum overall survival time was 5 months and the maximum overall survival time was 81 months. The Kaplan-Meier survival curve showed that the total survival time of SIRT1 positive subjects was significantly shorter than that of SIRT1 negative subjects (P < 0.05). The results of Log-rank test showed that there were significant differences in age, Enneking stage, expression of SIRT1 protein, pathological type, and survival prognosis of patients with or without pulmonary metastasis (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in survival outcome among different sex, tumor size, location, and depth of tumor (P < 0.05). Cox stepwise regression model showed that the mortality risk of SIRT1 positive was 1.403 times higher than that of SIRT1 negative (P < 0.05).Conclusion The abnormal expression of SIRT1 protein may be related to the development, invasion, and metastasis of liposarcomas. SIRT1 protein is highly expressed not only in liposarcomas of limbs but also in lung metastases, with potential as a prognostic marker of limb liposarcomas.