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Squalli Houssaini A, Lamrabet S, Senhaji N, Sekal M, Nshizirungu JP, Mahfoudi H, Elfakir S, Karkouri M, Bennis S. Prognostic Value of ATRX and p53 Status in High-Grade Glioma Patients in Morocco. Cureus 2024; 16:e56361. [PMID: 38633919 PMCID: PMC11022269 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.56361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION Glioblastoma and astrocytoma, grade 4, are the most common and aggressive brain tumors. Several biomarkers, such as the isocitrate dehydrogenase mutation (IDH-1), alpha-thalassemia/mental retardation, and the X-linked mutation (ATRX), enable more accurate glioma classification and facilitate patient management. This study aimed to determine the prognostic value of clinical and molecular factors (IDH, TP53, and ATRX mutations). We also studied the relationship between these molecular markers and the overall survival (OS) of 126 patients with grade 4 glioblastoma/astrocytoma. METHODS The immunohistochemical study was conducted using antibodies namely, IDH1, R132H, p53, and ATRX. Statistical tests were used to investigate factors that might influence overall survival using IBM SPSS Statistics, version 25.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY). RESULTS The median age at diagnosis was 51.5 years. Patients with a Karnofsky performance score (KPS) <70 presented less favorable survival outcomes compared to those with a KPS ≥70. The median OS for patients was found to be 11.17 months. Expression of IDH1 R132H was found in 13.5% of patients, p53 overexpression was identified in 55.6% of cases, and loss of ATRX expression was detected in 11.9%. The group of patients with IDH mutant/ATRX mutant/p53 wild-type had the best prognosis (OS = 27.393 months; p = 0.015). Our results were in line with previous studies. CONCLUSION The clinical value of IDH and ATRX mutations in prognostic assessment was confirmed (p ≤0.05). The overexpression of p53 had no significant impact on OS (p = 0.726). Therefore, p53 alone cannot predict survival in glioblastoma patients. Based on the results, these biomarkers may be a potential therapeutic target to prolong patient survival, hence the need for further investigations.
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- Asmae Squalli Houssaini
- Laboratory of Biomedical and Translational Research, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dental Medicine of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, MAR
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- Laboratory of Biomedical and Translational Research, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dental Medicine of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, MAR
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, MAR
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Research in Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dental Medicine of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, MAR
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- Department of Biology, School of Science, College of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda, Kigali, RWA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Research in Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dental Medicine of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, MAR
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Research in Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dental Medicine of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, MAR
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- Department of Pathology, Ibn Rochd University Hospital Center, Casablanca, MAR
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Casablanca, MAR
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- Laboratory of Biomedical and Translational Research, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dental Medicine of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, MAR
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Kowalczyk AE, Krazinski BE, Piotrowska A, Grzegrzolka J, Godlewski J, Dziegiel P, Kmiec Z. Impaired Expression of the Salvador Homolog-1 Gene Is Associated with the Development and Progression of Colorectal Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:5771. [PMID: 38136317 PMCID: PMC10742029 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15245771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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Salvador homolog-1 (SAV1) is a component of the Hippo pathway that regulates tissue growth and homeostasis by affecting diverse cell processes, including apoptosis, cell division, and differentiation. The aberrant expression of Hippo pathway components has been observed in various human cancers. This study aimed to examine the expression level of the SAV1 gene in colorectal cancer (CRC) and its prognostic value and associations with tumor progression. We obtained matched pairs of tumor tissue and non-cancerous mucosa of the large intestine from 94 CRC patients as well as 40 colon biopsies of healthy subjects collected during screening colonoscopy. The tissue samples and CRC cell lines were quantified for SAV1 mRNA levels using the quantitative polymerase chain reaction method, while SAV1 protein expression was estimated in the paired tissues of CRC patients using immunohistochemistry. The average level of SAV1 mRNA was decreased in 93.6% of the tumor tissues compared to the corresponding non-cancerous tissues and biopsies of healthy colon mucosa. A downregulated expression of SAV1 mRNA was also noted in the CRC cell lines. Although the average SAV1 immunoreactivity was increased in the CRC samples compared to the non-cancerous tissues, a decreased immunoreactivity of the SAV1 protein in the tumor specimens was associated with lymph node involvement and higher TNM disease stage and histological grade. The results of our study suggest that the impaired expression of SAV1 is involved in CRC progression.
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- Anna Ewa Kowalczyk
- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-082 Olsztyn, Poland; (B.E.K.); (J.G.)
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-082 Olsztyn, Poland; (B.E.K.); (J.G.)
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- Division of Histology and Embryology, Department of Human Morphology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland; (A.P.); (J.G.); (P.D.)
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- Division of Histology and Embryology, Department of Human Morphology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland; (A.P.); (J.G.); (P.D.)
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-082 Olsztyn, Poland; (B.E.K.); (J.G.)
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- Division of Histology and Embryology, Department of Human Morphology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland; (A.P.); (J.G.); (P.D.)
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- Department of Histology, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-210 Gdansk, Poland;
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Hassan SA, Shabaan AAA, Ahmed AR, Issa YA, Fadel SH, El-Sabaa BM. Clinicopathological significance of SOX9 and β-catenin expression in pre-neoadjuvant chemotherapy cases of osteosarcoma: molecular and immunohistochemical study. J Histotechnol 2023; 46:127-138. [PMID: 37013797 DOI: 10.1080/01478885.2023.2193526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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The molecular pathogenesis of osteosarcoma (OS), the most frequent primary malignant bone tumor of all age groups, is still obscure. Since multidrug chemotherapeutic regimens were introduced in the 1970s, survival rates have been stationary. The Wnt-β-catenin signaling cascade and SOX9 have a significant contribution to skeletal growth, development, and tumorigenesis. In the present work, an attempt was made to examine the role and clinicopathological significance of β-catenin and SOX9 in 46 cases of pre-neoadjuvant chemotherapy OS tissues compared to 10 cases of non-neoplastic bone. The mRNA levels of both markers were assessed by qRT-PCR, and protein levels of β-catenin were analyzed by immunohistochemistry. The results were correlated with different clinicopathological parameters. SOX9 mRNA levels were significantly elevated in OS compared to non-neoplastic bone, and higher levels were significantly associated with the occurrence of fluid-fluid levels (indicating blood-containing cystic spaces) and osteolytic radiological pattern. Although β-catenin mRNA and protein levels were higher in OS compared to non-neoplastic bone, only the protein levels reached statistical significance. Higher β-catenin mRNA levels were significantly associated with tumor size, while higher protein levels were significantly associated with the histologic subtype, mitotic count, and radiological pattern. No significant association was noted with any of the other evaluated parameters. OS showing higher SOX9 mRNA expression and lower β-catenin mRNA and protein expression exhibited longer estimated overall survival times approaching statistical significance. To conclude, while high expression of β-catenin and SOX9 suggests their possible involvement in OS development, their prognostic role may need further research.
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- Sarah Ahmed Hassan
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt
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Li Z, Huang Y, Zhou R, Li Z, Yan Q. Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of SMAD4 in non-small cell lung cancer: A meta-analysis and database validation. Medicine (Baltimore) 2023; 102:e34312. [PMID: 37478236 PMCID: PMC10662867 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000034312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The relationship between SMAD family member 4 (SMAD4) and the clinicopathological and prognostic significance of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is unclear. Our aim was to investigate the association between SMAD4 expression and clinicopathological parameters and NSCLC prognosis. METHODS We searched articles in databases from inception to July 2022 to retrieve literature related to SMAD4 expression and the clinicopathological and/or prognostic significance of NSCLC patients. Odds ratios (ORs), hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated. We evaluated the expression of SMAD4 and overall survival (OS) in NSCLC using the Kaplan-Meier plotter database. RESULTS Eight articles with 1461 NSCLC patients were included. SMAD4 expression was related to tumor differentiation (OR = 0.359, 95% CI: 0.238-0.543, P = .000), lymph node metastasis (OR = 0.469, 95% CI: 0.04-0.725, P = .001), tumor node metastasis stage (OR = 0.238, 95% CI: 0.156-0.362, P = .000) and good OS (HR = 0.592, 95% CI: 0.332-0.853, P = .000) in NSCLC. There was no significant association between SMAD4 expression and age (OR = 0.822, 95% CI: 0.515-1.312, P = .411) or sex (OR = 1.056, 95% CI: 0.675-1.653, P = .811). Furthermore, SMAD4 expression was lower in NSCLC, and a good prognosis in NSCLC (HR = 0.6, 95% CI = 0.51-0.72, P = 4.2 e-9) was shown to correlate with higher SMAD4 expression using the Kaplan-Meier Plotter database. CONCLUSION SMAD4 expression is lower in NSCLC and correlated with lymph node metastasis, tumor differentiation, tumor node metastasis stage and good OS for NSCLC patients.
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- Zhiqiang Li
- Department II of Thoracic Surgery, The Fifth Hospital of Dalian, Dalian, China
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- Department II of Thoracic Surgery, The Fifth Hospital of Dalian, Dalian, China
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- Department II of Thoracic Surgery, The Fifth Hospital of Dalian, Dalian, China
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- Department II of Thoracic Surgery, The Fifth Hospital of Dalian, Dalian, China
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- Department II of Thoracic Surgery, The Fifth Hospital of Dalian, Dalian, China
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Hashmi AA, Bukhari U, Aslam M, Joiya RS, Kumar R, Malik UA, Zia S, Khan AR, Saleem M, Irfan M. Clinicopathological Parameters and Biomarker Profile in a Cohort of Patients With Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC). Cureus 2023; 15:e41941. [PMID: 37588336 PMCID: PMC10425608 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.41941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common malignancy of the head and neck region, commonly termed as head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Data related to biomarker expression in HNSCC are scarcely available, especially in our population. This study aimed to evaluate the association of immunohistochemical (IHC) expression of p16, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), p27, and p53 in HNSCC with clinical and pathological parameters. METHODS This retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Histopathology, Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan from February 2017 to January 2022. A total of 308 cases of HNSCC with upfront surgical resection were included in the study. IHC analysis was performed for EGFR, p16, p27, and p53, and association with clinicopathological parameters was sought. RESULTS p16, EGFR, and p53 positivity were noted in 22.1%, 18.8%, and 66.2% cases, respectively, whereas loss of p27 expression was seen in 14.3% cases of HNSCC. A significant association of p16 expression was observed with age, tumor size, tumor site, nodal metastasis, extranodal extension (ENE), and perineural invasion (PNI). Cases aged over 50 years were more significantly associated with positive p16. Similarly, cases with oral cavity SCC were more significantly associated with positive p16. HNSCC with larger tumor size, the presence of nodal metastasis, and ENE and PNI were associated with negative p16 expression. Similarly, a significant association of EGFR expression was observed with age, tumor size, tumor site, histological subtype, histological differentiation, nodal metastasis, ENE, and PNI (p < 0.05). Cases of HNSCC with age less than 50 years were associated with positive EGFR expression. Similarly, oral cavity and lip SCCs were associated with positive EGFR expression compared with other sites. Moreover, positive EGFR expression was significantly associated with nodal metastasis, ENE, moderate histological differentiation, and the presence of PNI. Loss of p27 expression was significantly associated with nodal stage and ENE; low nodal stage and absence of ENE were associated with p27 loss of expression, whereas no significant association was seen with other pathological parameters. Alternatively, a significant association of mutant-type p53 expression was noted with gender, nodal stage, and histological subtype. Females with HNSCC show a higher frequency of mutant-type p53 expression than males. Moreover, higher nodal stage (N2b and higher) and non-keratinizing SCCs were significantly associated with mutant-type p53 expression. CONCLUSION Our study found a high expression of EGFR and mutant-type p53 expression in HNSCC. Conversely, p16 expression and loss of p27 expression were low. Moreover, EGFR and mutant-type p53 expression were associated with poor pathological parameters, whereas p16 expression was associated with better histological features.
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- Atif A Hashmi
- Pathology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Baqai Medical University, Karachi, PAK
- Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CAN
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- Pathology, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Chandka Medical College, Larkana, PAK
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- Pathology, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CAN
- Dermatology, Dermcare Institute of Canada, Edmonton, CAN
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- Statistics, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, PAK
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Hashmi AA, Tola R, Rashid K, Ali AH, Dowlah T, Malik UA, Zia S, Saleem M, Anjali F, Irfan M. Clinicopathological Parameters Predicting Nodal Metastasis in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cureus 2023; 15:e40744. [PMID: 37485190 PMCID: PMC10361629 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.40744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
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Introduction Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common type of malignancy of the head and neck region arising from the mucosal epithelium of the oral cavity and oropharynx. It is a multifactorial disease with a high rate of mortality. Lymph node metastasis is an important prognostic parameter associated with adverse prognosis. This study was conducted to establish a relationship between various clinicopathological characteristics and nodal metastasis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Methods This retrospective study was conducted at Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. A total of 306 biopsy-proven cases of HNSCC were included in the study. Clinical data, which included age, sex, and site of the lesion, were obtained from the clinical referral forms. Resections of the lesions were performed, and the specimens collected were sent to the laboratory for histological evaluation. The histological subtype, perineural invasion (PNI), depth of invasion (DOI), nodal metastasis, and extranodal extension were assessed, and the association of clinicopathological parameters with nodal metastasis was sought. Results The mean age at diagnosis was 50.26 ± 12.86 years with a female predominance (55.27%), and the mean tumor size was 3.37 ± 1.75 cm. The mean DOI was 1.08 ± 0.67 cm. The most common site of tumor was found to be the oral cavity (68.6%), followed by the tongue (24.2%). Keratinizing SCC (59.5%) was found to be the most prevalent histological subtype. At the time of diagnosis, the majority of the tumors were grade 2 (62.4%). PNI was present in 12.1% of the cases. Nodal metastasis was present in 44.8%, and extranodal extension was present in 17% of the cases. A significant association of nodal metastasis was noted with age, gender, tumor site, tumor size, and DOI. Male patients with HNSCC showed a higher frequency of nodal metastasis than female patients. Patients between the ages of 31 and 50 years with a tumor size of above 4 cm and a DOI of more than 1 cm had a higher frequency of nodal metastasis. Similarly, tumors arising in the oral cavity and the keratinizing subtype were more likely to possess nodal metastasis. Conclusion We found that HNSCCs were more prevalent among the female population, with the most common site being the oral cavity. Nodal metastasis was significantly associated with the keratinizing subtype of SCC, oral cavity location, male gender, and middle age group. Similarly, the tumor size and DOI were important predictors of nodal metastasis in HNSCC in our study.
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- Atif A Hashmi
- Pathology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Bangladesh Medical College, Dhaka, BGD
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- Internal Medicine, Bangladesh Medical College, Dhaka, BGD
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- Pathology, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Sakhi Baba General Hospital, Sukkur, PAK
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- Statistics, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, PAK
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Wang H, Sun Z, Zhao W, Geng B. [S100A10 promotes proliferation and invasion of lung adenocarcinoma cells by activating the Akt-mTOR signaling pathway]. Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 2023; 43:733-740. [PMID: 37313814 DOI: 10.12122/j.issn.1673-4254.2023.05.08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of expression levels of S100 calcium-binding protein A10 (S100A10) in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) on patient prognosis and the regulatory role of S100A10 in lung cancer cell proliferation and metastasis. METHODS Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression levels of S100A10 in LUAD and adjacent tissues, and the relationship between S100A10 expression and clinicopathological parameters and prognosis of the patients was statistically analyzed. The lung adenocarcinoma expression dataset in TCGA database was analyzed using gene enrichment analysis (GSEA) to predict the possible regulatory pathways of S100A10 in the development of lung adenocarcinoma. Lactate production and glucose consumption of lung cancer cells with S100A10 knockdown or overexpression were analyzed to assess the level of glycolysis. Western blotting, CCK-8 assay, EdU-594 assay, and Transwell assays were performed to determine the expression level of S100A10 protein, proliferation and invasion ability of lung cancer cells. A549 cells with S100A10 knockdown and H1299 cells with S100A10 overexpression were injected subcutaneously in nude mice, and tumor growth was observed. RESULTS The expression level of S100A10 was significantly upregulated in LUAD tissues as compared with the adjacent tissues, and an elevated S100A10 expression level was associated with lymph node metastasis, advanced tumor stage and distant organ metastasis (P < 0.05), but not with tumor differentiation or the patients' age or gender (P > 0.05). Survival analysis showed that elevated S100A10 expressions in the tumor tissue was associated with a poor outcome of the patients (P < 0.001). In the lung cancer cells, S100A10 overexpression significantly promoted cell proliferation and invasion in vitro (P < 0.001). GSEA showed that the gene sets of glucose metabolism, glycolysis and mTOR signaling pathway were significantly enriched in high expressions of S100A10. In the tumor-bearing nude mice, S100A10 overexpression significantly promoted tumor growth, while S100A10 knockdown obviously suppressed tumor cell proliferation (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION S100A10 overexpression promotes glycolysis by activating the Akt-mTOR signaling pathway to promote proliferation and invasion of lung adenocarcinoma cells.
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- H Wang
- Department of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 24100, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 24100, China
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- Department of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 24100, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 24100, China
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de Sousa Pereira N, Vitiello GAF, Amarante MK. Involvement of APOBEC3A/B Deletion in Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus (MMTV)-like Positive Human Breast Cancer. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:diagnostics13061196. [PMID: 36980505 PMCID: PMC10047902 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13061196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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The association between mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)-like sequences and human breast cancer (BC) is largely documented in the literature, but further research is needed to determine how they influence carcinogenesis. APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases are viral restriction factors that have been implicated in cancer mutagenesis, and a germline deletion that results in the fusion of the APOBEC3A coding region with the APOBEC3B 3'-UTR has been linked to increased mutagenic potential, enhanced risk of BC development, and poor prognosis. However, little is known about factors influencing APOBEC3 family activation in cancer. Thus, we hypothesized that MMTV infection and APOBEC3-mediated mutagenesis may be linked in the pathogenesis of BC. We investigated APOBEC3A/B genotyping, MMTV-like positivity, and clinicopathological parameters of 209 BC patients. We show evidence for active APOBEC3-mediated mutagenesis in human-derived MMTV sequences and comparatively investigate the impact of APOBEC3A/B germline deletion in MMTV-like env positive and negative BC in a Brazilian cohort. In MMTV-like negative samples, APOBEC3A/B deletion was negatively correlated with tumor stage while being positively correlated with estrogen receptor expression. Although APOBEC3A/B was not associated with MMTV-like positivity, samples carrying both MMTV-like positivity and APOBEC3A/B deletion had the lowest age-at-diagnosis of all study groups, with all patients being less than 50 years old. These results indicate that APOBEC3 mutagenesis is active against MMTV-like sequences, and that APOBEC3A/B deletion might act along with the MMTV-like presence to predispose people to early-onset BC.
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- Nathália de Sousa Pereira
- Oncology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Clinical and Toxicological Analyses, Health Sciences Center, Londrina State University, Londrina 86057-970, PR, Brazil
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- Oncology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Clinical and Toxicological Analyses, Health Sciences Center, Londrina State University, Londrina 86057-970, PR, Brazil
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Li X, Hu S, Ma M, Wang P, Qi Y, Zhou Y, Zhong Z, Gao H, Bai F. Esophageal cancer-related gene 4 inhibits gastric cancer growth and metastasis by upregulating Krüppel-like factor 2 expression. Ann Transl Med 2023; 11:176. [PMID: 36923086 PMCID: PMC10009579 DOI: 10.21037/atm-23-139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Background There are a large number of people suffering from gastric cancer (GC) worldwide, so the study of biomarkers for GC is urgently needed. This study aimed to investigate the role of esophageal cancer-related gene 4 (ECRG4) in the growth, metastasis, and prognosis of GC and the possible underlying mechanism. Methods The expression of ECRG4 was detected in GC tissues by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Western blot, and immunohistochemistry. The relationships between ECRG4 expression and clinicopathological parameters of patients with GC were statistically analyzed, and Kaplan-Meier prognosis and survival curves of the patients were plotted. ECRG4 was overexpressed in the human gastric adenocarcinoma cell line (AGS) and human GC cell line 27 (HGC27), and the in vivo effects of ECRG4 overexpression on the growth, invasion, and metastasis of GC were analyzed and verified in nude mice. To identify the downstream transcription factors potentially regulated by ECRG4, ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing and differential gene expression analysis were performed on ECRG4-overexpressing cells. Quantitative PCR, Western blot, and immunohistochemistry were used to detect the expression of the downstream transcription factors targeted by ECRG4 in GC. Results The ECRG4 mRNA and protein expression levels were low in GC tissues and were associated with a poor prognosis. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) Cox regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analyses showed that patients with low ECRG4 expression had worse prognosis and survival. Overexpression of ECRG4 inhibited the proliferation, metastasis, and invasion of GC cells. RNA sequencing analysis showed that overexpression of ECRG4 induced the upregulation of Krüppel-like factor 2. Conclusions Our findings show that ECRG4 promotes GC progression via Krüppel-like factor 2 signaling and highlight ECRG4 as a potential GC biomarker and therapeutic target.
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- Ximei Li
- School of Clinical Medicine, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,Department of Gastroenterology, People's Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, People's Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, People's Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, People's Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongji Hospital, Institute of Digestive Disease, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,National Engineering Center for Biochip at Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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- School of Clinical Medicine, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongji Hospital, Institute of Digestive Disease, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongji Hospital, Institute of Digestive Disease, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,National Engineering Center for Biochip at Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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- The Gastroenterology Clinical Medical Center of Hainan Province, Haikou, China.,Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China
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Liao Y, Liao Y, Li J, Li Y, Fan Y. The Prognostic Role of HuR Varies Between Different Subtypes of Breast Cancer Patients: Data Mining and Retrospective Analysis. Breast Cancer (Dove Med Press) 2023; 15:135-146. [PMID: 36816839 PMCID: PMC9930679 DOI: 10.2147/bctt.s395984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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Objective Human-antigen R (HuR) is an RNA-binding protein, which regulates the expression of several oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes through post-transcriptional mechanisms. But the role of HuR in breast cancer remains controversial. The aim of this study was to verify the association between cytoplasmic HuR level and prognosis of breast cancer patients. Methods Data mining from the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) and Kaplan-Meier Plotter (KMP) databases was performed. Then, 394 patients with stage I-III primary breast cancer were enrolled between January 2005 and December 2016. We investigated the association between cytoplasmic HuR level and clinicopathological characteristics or survival of these patients. Immunohistochemical analysis was performed to determine HuR expression level. SPSS 21.0 statistical software was used for analysis. Results In the HPA and KMP datasets, HuR protein and mRNA expression level were not significantly associated with overall survival of all breast cancer patients enrolled. Results from our 394 patients indicated that higher expression level of cytoplasmic HuR was associated with larger tumor size, lymph node positive, ER negative and triple-negative subtype. For all patients enrolled, the results indicated that compared with HuR negative patients, the DFS (disease-free survival) of HuR 1+ was longer (60.5% vs 78.8, P=0.053, HR=0.616, 95% CI: 0.378-1.005), the P value was borderline. In the triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subgroup, HuR positive patients had significantly longer DFS than HuR negative patients (65.5% vs 30.8%, P=0.001, HR=0.345, 95% CI: 0.180-0.658). In the HR+HER2- subgroup, HuR low (0~1+) patients had significantly longer OS than HuR high (2+~3+) patients (97.0% vs 89.5%, P=0.033, HR=2.482, 95% CI: 1.074-5.736). Conclusion In conclusion, our results revealed that higher expression level of HuR was related to aggressive biological characteristics which supported the findings from previous researches. In the HR+HER2- subgroup, lower HuR expression level patients had better survival time, while in the TNBC subgroup we got the opposite results. Our work indicated that HuR might play different roles in different breast cancer subtypes.
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- Yuqian Liao
- Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Jiangxi Cancer Hospital, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Jiangxi Cancer Hospital, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China,Yong Li, Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, No. 17, Yongwaizhengjie, Donghu, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 15879155066, Email
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, People’s Republic of China,Correspondence: Ying Fan, Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer institute and hospital, Peking Union Medical college, Chinese Academy of Medical science, No. 17, Nan Li, Panjiayuan, Beijing, 100021, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 13693656671, Email
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Sarkar S, Mali K. Firefly-SVM predictive model for breast cancer subgroup classification with clinicopathological parameters. Digit Health 2023; 9:20552076231207203. [PMID: 37860702 PMCID: PMC10583530 DOI: 10.1177/20552076231207203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023] Open
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Background Breast cancer is a highly predominant destructive disease among women characterised with varied tumour biology, molecular subgroups and diverse clinicopathological specifications. The potentiality of machine learning to transform complex medical data into meaningful knowledge has led to its application in breast cancer detection and prognostic evaluation. Objective The emergence of data-driven diagnostic model for assisting clinicians in diagnostic decision making has gained an increasing curiosity in breast cancer identification and analysis. This motivated us to develop a breast cancer data-driven model for subtype classification more accurately. Method In this article, we proposed a firefly-support vector machine (SVM) breast cancer predictive model that uses clinicopathological and demographic data gathered from various tertiary care cancer hospitals or oncological centres to distinguish between patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and non-triple-negative breast cancer (non-TNBC). Results The results of the firefly-support vector machine (firefly-SVM) predictive model were distinguished from the traditional grid search-support vector machine (Grid-SVM) model, particle swarm optimisation-support vector machine (PSO-SVM) and genetic algorithm-support vector machine (GA-SVM) hybrid models through hyperparameter tuning. The findings show that the recommended firefly-SVM classification model outperformed other existing models in terms of prediction accuracy (93.4%, 86.6%, 69.6%) for automated SVM parameter selection. The effectiveness of the prediction model was also evaluated using well-known metrics, such as the F1-score, mean square error, area under the ROC curve, logarithmic loss and precision-recall curve. Conclusion Firefly-SVM predictive model may be treated as an alternate tool for breast cancer subgroup classification that would benefit the clinicians for managing the patient with proper treatment and diagnostic outcome.
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- Suvobrata Sarkar
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
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Kielbik M, Szulc-Kielbik I, Klink M. E-Cadherin Expression in Relation to Clinicopathological Parameters and Survival of Patients with Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232214383. [PMID: 36430858 PMCID: PMC9695266 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232214383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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It is generally accepted that loss/reduction of E-cadherin expression on tumor cells promotes their migration, invasiveness, and metastasis. It is also an indicator of cancer cells' aggressiveness. The aim of this study was to assess how the expression of E-cadherin varies in primary ovarian cancer tissue in regard to overall survival of patients; FIGO stage; grade; histopathological type of tumor; and potential factors discriminating malignant and nonmalignant ovarian tumors. Our analysis was based on literature research (1 January 2000-8 November 2021) conducted according to the PRISMA guidelines. Most studies support the assumption that loss/reduced expression of E-cadherin results in shorter overall survival of EOC patients. Moreover, most research has shown that there is a correlation between the low level of E-cadherin and the advancement stage of disease, especially in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma type. However, E-cadherin expression seems to not be helpful to distinguish malignant and nonmalignant tumors. In conclusion, reduced E-cadherin expression in primary ovarian cancer tissue may indicate a less favorable disease outcome and is associated with high advancement of the disease.
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Zhou X, Chang J, Peng L, Liu X, Yu F, Xu J, Zhang S, Hu P, Liu Z, Zhang G. [MC1R is highly expressed in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma]. Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 2022; 42:1552-9. [PMID: 36329591 DOI: 10.12122/j.issn.1673-4254.2022.10.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the expression of MC1R in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and its correlation with the clinicopathological parameters. METHODS We analyzed the expression of MC1R in esophageal cancer based on data from TCGA databse and examined its expression levels using RT-PCR and Western blotting in a human esophageal epithelial cell line BAr-T, human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell lines ECA109, KYSE30, KYSE150, KYSE510, TE-1, TE-13, and EC9706, a human gastric cancer cell line SGC7901 and 19 pairs of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma tissues and adjacent tissues.Immunohistochemistry was used to detect MC1R expression levels in 32 pairs of paraffin-embedded sections of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and adjacent tissues, and the correlation of MC1R expression and the patients'clinicopathological characteristics was analyzed. RESULTS Bioinformatics analysis showed that MC1R was significantly overexpressed in esophageal cancer tissues (P < 0.05).MC1R expression was also increased in 5 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell lines ECA109, KYSE30, KYSE510, TE-13, EC9706 and the gastric cancer cell line SGC7901 as compared with that in esophageal epithelial cells (P < 0.05).Immunohistochemistry revealed significantly increased MC1R expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma tissue sections in comparison with the adjacent tissue sections (P < 0.05).In patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, a high MC1R expression was detected mainly in those with an old age, positive for middle-thoracic involvement, and with moderately differentiated tumor cells, and showed a correlation with T stage of tumor (P < 0.05), but not with the other clinicopathological parameters such as gender, age, degree of cell differentiation, primary tumor site, or TNM stage (P>0.05). CONCLUSION MC1R is highly expressed in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and may serve as a molecular biomarker to assist in the diagnosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
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Zhang X, Yang Z, Hu Q, Zuo L, Song X, Geng Z, Li J, Wang Y, Ge S, Hu J. [Centromere protein U is highly expressed in colorectal cancer and associated with a poor long-term prognosis]. Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 2022; 42:1198-1204. [PMID: 36073219 DOI: 10.12122/j.issn.1673-4254.2022.08.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To analyze the expression of centromere protein U (CENPU) in colorectal cancer and its predictive value for long-term prognosis of the patients. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the data of 102 patients with colorectal cancer undergoing radical resection in our hospital between January, 2005 and December, 2011. The expression level of CENPU in colorectal cancer tissue was detected immunohistochemically, and its association with clinicopathological characteristics of the patients were analyzed. The patients were divided into low expression group (n=51) and high expression group (n=51) based on the median CENPU expression level for analysis the value of CENPU for predicting long-term prognosis of the patients after radical resection of the tumors. In the in vitro study, we constructed colorectal cancer cell lines with CENPU interference and CENPU overexpression by lentiviral transfection and assessed the changes in the proliferation, migration and invasion of the cells using CCK-8 assay and Transwell assay. RESULTS The protein expression level of CENPU was significantly higher in colorectal cancer tissues than in the adjacent tissues (P < 0.05) and was positively correlated with the expressions levels of Ki67 (r=0.569, P < 0.05) and VEGF-C (r=0.629, P < 0.05). CENPU expression level in colorectal cancer tissue was closely related with tumor progression and clinicopathological stage of the tumor (P < 0.05). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that the patients with high CENPU expression had significantly decreased postoperative overall survival (χ2=11.155, P < 0.05); Cox multivariate regression analysis suggested that CENPU expression level was an independent risk factor affecting the overall survival of the patients after radical resection (HR=1.848, P < 0.05). The results of cell experiments demonstrated that high CENPU expression significantly promoted the proliferation, migration and invasion of the tumor cells. CONCLUSION CENPU is highly expressed in colorectal cancer tissues in closely correlation with tumor progression and may serve as a potential biomarker for evaluating the long-term prognosis of colorectal cancer patients.
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- X Zhang
- Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China.,Central Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tissue Transplantation, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233030, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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- Central Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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- Central Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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- Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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- Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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- Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233004, China
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Yu J, Chen L, Bao Z, Liu Y, Liu G, Li F, Li L. [Corrigendum] BMI‑1 promotes invasion and metastasis in endometrial adenocarcinoma and is a poor prognostic factor. Oncol Rep 2022; 48:141. [PMID: 35730621 PMCID: PMC9245074 DOI: 10.3892/or.2022.8352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Jing Yu
- Department of Pathology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong 264100, P.R. China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832001, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, People's Hospital of Haiyang, Haiyang, Shandong 265100, P.R. China
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- Department of Physical Examination, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong 264100, P.R. China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong 264100, P.R. China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong 264100, P.R. China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong 264100, P.R. China
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Wang B, Liu J, Han Y, Deng Y, Li J, Jiang Y. The Presence of Tertiary Lymphoid Structures Provides New Insight Into the Clinicopathological Features and Prognosis of Patients With Breast Cancer. Front Immunol 2022; 13:868155. [PMID: 35664009 PMCID: PMC9161084 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.868155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Background Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) have been proven to be predictive biomarkers of favorable clinical outcomes and response to immunotherapies in several solid malignancies. Nevertheless, the effect of TLSs in patients with breast cancer (BC) remains controversial. The objective of the current study is to investigate the clinicopathological and prognostic significance of TLSs in BC. Given the unique difficulties for detecting and quantifying TLSs, a TLS-associated gene signature based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) BC cohort was used to validate and supplement our results. Methods Electronic platforms (PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, CNKI, and Wanfang) were searched systematically to identify relevant studies as of January 11, 2022. We calculated combined odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to determine the relationship between clinicopathological parameters and TLSs. The pooled hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs were also calculated to evaluate the prognostic significance of TLSs. The TLS signature based on the TCGA BC cohort was applied to validate and supplement our results. Results Fifteen studies with 3,898 patients were eligible for enrollment in our study. The combined analysis indicated that the presence of TLSs was related to improved disease-free survival (DFS) (HR = 0.61, 95% CI: 0.41-0.90, p < 0.05) and overall survival (OS) (HR = 1.66, 95% CI: 1.26-2.20, p < 0.001). Additionally, the presence of TLSs was positively correlated with early tumor TNM stage and high tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. TLS presence was positively related to human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2) and Ki-67 but inversely correlated with the status of estrogen and progesterone receptor. Simultaneously, our study found that tumor immune microenvironment was more favorable in the high-TLS signature group than in the low-TLS signature group. Consistently, BC patients in the high-TLS signature group exhibited better survival outcomes compared to those in the low-TLS signature group, suggesting that TLSs might be favorable prognostic biomarkers. Conclusions TLS presence provides new insight into the clinicopathological features and prognosis of patients with BC, whereas the factors discussed limited the evidence quality of this study. We look forward to consistent methods to define and characterize TLSs, and more high-quality prospective clinical trials designed to validate the value of TLSs alone or in combination with other markers.
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- Bin Wang
- Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Pathology, Chengdu Fifth People's Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Theocharis S, Giaginis C, Gourzi S, Alexandrou P, Tsourouflis G, Sarantis P, Danas E, Michail A, Tsoukalas N, Pergaris A, Politis PK, Nakopoulou L. High Pregnane X Receptor (PXR) Expression Is Correlated with Poor Prognosis in Invasive Breast Carcinoma. Diagnostics (Basel) 2021; 11:1946. [PMID: 34829293 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11111946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Pregnane X Receptor (PXR) is involved in human cancer, either by directly affecting carcinogenesis or by inducing drug-drug interactions and chemotherapy resistance. The clinical significance of PXR expression in invasive breast carcinoma was evaluated in the present study. PXR protein expression was assessed immunohistochemically on formalin fixed paraffin-embedded breast invasive carcinoma tissue sections, obtained from 148 patients, and was correlated with clinicopathological parameters, molecular phenotypes, tumor cells' proliferative capacity, and overall disease-free patients' survival. Additionally, the expression of PXR was examined on human breast carcinoma cell lines of different histological grade, hormonal status, and metastatic potential. PXR positivity was noted in 79 (53.4%) and high PXR expression in 48 (32.4%), out of 148 breast carcinoma cases. High PXR expression was positively associated with nuclear grade (p = 0.0112) and histological grade of differentiation (p = 0.0305), as well as with tumor cells' proliferative capacity (p = 0.0051), and negatively with luminal A subtype (p = 0.0295). Associations between high PXR expression, estrogen, and progesterone receptor negative status were also recorded (p = 0.0314 and p = 0.0208, respectively). High PXR expression was associated with shorter overall patients' survival times (log-rank test, p = 0.0009). In multivariate analysis, high PXR expression was identified as an independent prognostic factor of overall patients' survival (Cox-regression analysis, p = 0.0082). PXR expression alterations were also noted in breast cancer cell lines of different hormonal status. The present data supported evidence that PXR was related to a more aggressive invasive breast carcinoma phenotype, being a strong and independent poor prognosticator.
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Khare S, Irrinki S, Sakaray YR, Bal A, Singh T, Singh G. Metabolic Syndrome in Breast Cancer Patients: An Observational Study. Breast Cancer (Auckl) 2021; 15:11782234211026788. [PMID: 34629874 PMCID: PMC8493313 DOI: 10.1177/11782234211026788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Background: The reported association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and breast cancer may have a significant impact on the incidence and mortality related to breast cancer. We undertook this study to find if the disease is different in patients with MetS. Materials and Methods: Patients with biopsy-proven breast cancer were divided into groups based on the presence or absence of MetS (according to the IDF definition of 2006) and also based on menopausal status. The presence of known risk and prognostic factors were also recorded, and the groups were compared. Results: A total of 305 patients were recruited, of which 191 (62.6%) had MetS. Patients with MetS were older than those without (52.1 versus 48.3 years, P = .014) and had a lower incidence of nulliparity (4.1% vs 12.8%, P = .005) and dense breasts (2.9% in MetS vs 10.8% in no MetS, P = .009). On further dividing into premenopausal and postmenopausal, these differences persisted only in premenopausal patients. MetS group had a lower number of HER2-positive tumours (14.3% for MetS, 23.9% for no MetS; P = .036). After dividing into premenopausal and postmenopausal, significant differences were observed in distant metastases (5.4% in MetS vs 16.1% in no MetS, P = .045) and in grade (higher grade in MetS, P = .05) in premenopausal patients. In postmenopausal patients, difference was observed in HER2 positivity (12.3% in MetS vs 28.8% in no MetS, P = .008). Conclusions: Breast cancer in patients with MetS may not be significantly different from breast cancer in patients without MetS.
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- Siddhant Khare
- Department of General Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of General Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of General Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Pathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Radiodiagnosis, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of General Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Zu G, Gao J, Zhou T. The Clinicopathological and Prognostic Significance of SOX9 Expression in Gastric Cancer: Meta-Analysis and TCGA Analysis. Front Oncol 2021; 11:668946. [PMID: 34568009 PMCID: PMC8458960 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.668946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The clinicopathological and prognostic significance of SRY-box transcription factor 9 (SOX9) expression in gastric cancer (GC) patients is still controversial. Our aim is to investigate the clinicopathological and prognostic value of SOX9 expression in GC patients. METHODS A systemic literature search and meta-analysis were used to evaluate the clinicopathological significance and overall survival (OS) of SOX9 expression in GC patients. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset was used to investigate the relationship between SOX9 expression and OS of stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD) patients. RESULTS A total of 11 articles involving 3,060 GC patients were included. In GC patients, the SOX9 expression was not associated with age [odds ratio (OR) = 0.743, 95% CI = 0.507-1.089, p = 0.128], sex (OR = 0.794, 95% CI = 0.605-1.042, p = 0.097), differentiation (OR = 0.728, 95% CI = 0.475-1.115, p = 0.144), and lymph node metastasis (OR = 1.031, 95% CI = 0.793-1.340, p = 0.820). SOX9 expression was associated with depth of invasion (OR = 0.348, 95% CI = 0.247-0.489, p = 0.000) and TNM stage (OR = 0.428, 95% CI = 0.308-0.595, p = 0.000). The 1-year OS (OR = 1.507, 95% CI = 1.167-1.945, p = 0.002), 3-year OS (OR = 1.482, 95% CI = 1.189-1.847, p = 0.000), and 5-year OS (OR = 1.487, 95% CI = 1.187-1.862, p = 0.001) were significantly shorter in GC patients with high SOX9 expression. TCGA analysis showed that SOX9 was upregulated in STAD patients compared with that in normal patients (p < 0.001), and the OS of STAD patients with a high expression of SOX9 is poorer than that in patients with low expression of SOX9, but the statistical difference is not obvious (p = 0.31). CONCLUSION SOX9 expression was associated with the depth of tumor invasion, TNM stage, and poor OS of GC patients. SOX9 may be a potential prognostic factor for GC patients but needs further study. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION PROSPERO, ID NUMBER 275712.
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- Guo Zu
- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Dalian Municipal Central Hospital Affiliated to Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Dalian Municipal Central Hospital Affiliated to Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
- Department of Graduate School, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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Chen P, Zhang YL, Xue B, Xu GY. Association of Caveolin-1 Expression With Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Front Oncol 2021; 10:562774. [PMID: 33489874 PMCID: PMC7820696 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2020.562774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Purpose The prognostic value of caveolin-1 in prostate cancer remains uncertain. Hence, this meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the prognostic value of caveolin-1 in prostate cancer, as well as ascertain the relationship between caveolin-1 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of prostate cancer patients. Methods The PubMed, Embase, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure and Chinese Biology Medicine databases were electronically searched to retrieve published studies on caveolin-1 expression in prostate cancer. After study selection and data extraction, the meta-analysis was conducted using Review manager 5.3 software. Odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to estimate the pooled effect. Funnel plot was used to assess publication bias. Results A total of ten studies were enrolled, which included 3976 cases of prostate cancer, 72 cases of high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN), and 157 normal controls. Results of the meta-analysis showed that the positive rate of caveolin-1 expression in prostate cancer was 18.28 times higher than that in normal control (OR= 18.28, 95% CI: 9.02–37.04, p<0.01), and 4.73 times higher than that in HGPIN (OR= 4.73, 95% CI: 2.38–9.42, p<0.01). The relationship between caveolin-1 and clinicopathological characteristics of prostate cancer showed that the differences in caveolin-1 expression in patients with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) >10 vs. ≤ 10 (OR=2.09, 95% CI: 1.35–3.22, p<0.01), differentiation degree low vs. medium/high (OR=2.74, 95% CI: 1.84–4.08, p<0.01), TNM stage T3+T4 vs. T1+T2 (OR=2.77, 95% CI: 1.78–4.29, p<0.01), and lymph node metastasis present vs. absent (OR=2.61, 95% CI: 1.84–3.69, p<0.01) were statistically significant. The correlation analysis between caveolin-1 and the survival time of patients with prostate cancer demonstrated that caveolin-1 was closely related to the prognosis of prostate cancer patients (HR=1.50, 95% CI: 1.28–1.76, p<0.01). Conclusion Caveolin-1 is overexpressed in prostate cancer, which can serve as a risk factor and adverse clinicopathological feature of prostate cancer. Caveolin-1 can also predict poor survival in prostate cancer patients after radical prostatectomy.
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- Pei Chen
- Department of Basic Medicine, Jiangsu College of Nursing, Huai'an, China
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- Department of Basic Medicine, Jiangsu College of Nursing, Huai'an, China
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- Department of Medical Technology, Jiangsu College of Nursing, Huai'an, China
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- Department of Medical Technology, Jiangsu College of Nursing, Huai'an, China
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Li L, Ye T, Zhang Q, Li X, Ma L, Yan J. The expression and clinical significance of TPM4 in hepatocellular carcinoma. Int J Med Sci 2021; 18:169-175. [PMID: 33390785 PMCID: PMC7738955 DOI: 10.7150/ijms.49906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is known as the fifth most common cancer in the world for its poor prognosis. New diagnostic markers and treatments are urgent to discover. To evaluate the protein expression of Tropomyosin4 (TPM4) and investigate its prognostic value in HCC, we collected 110 patients with different degrees of HCC and 10 patients with normal hepatic tissues and performed immunohistochemistry. Western bot was used to evaluate the expression of TPM4 in three HCC cell lines (HepG2, Huh7, SMMC-7721) and normal liver cell line LO2, as well as 7 HCC tissues and 7 normal hepatic tissues. The results of TPM4 staining revealed that TPM4 expression in HCC was higher than that in normal hepatic tissues, which was positive in 51.8% (n=57) and negative in 48.2% (n=53) while in normal hepatic tissues positive staining was in 10% (n=1) and negative staining was in 90% (n=9) (P=0.011). And the expression of TPM4 was related to pT status, grade and stage (P<0.001, P=0.015 and P<0.001, respectively). Western blot results indicated that TPM4 was high expressed in HCC cell line and HCC tissues. In conclusion, we believe that TPM4 can be applied as a diagnostic and prognostic marker to assist the management of HCC.
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- Linjing Li
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Center, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P.R. China
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- The First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 510515
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- Center of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 510080
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- The First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 510515
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Center, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P.R. China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Center, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P.R. China
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Acharya S, Kale J, Rai P, Anehosur V, Hallikeri K. Serum alkaline phosphatase in oral squamous cell carcinoma and its association with clinicopathological characteristics. South Asian J Cancer 2020; 6:125-128. [PMID: 28975122 PMCID: PMC5615883 DOI: 10.4103/2278-330x.214574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Context: Biochemical changes occur in biological fluids and tissues of different types of malignancies. Tumor markers in serum, tissue, and other body fluids during neoplastic process are of clinical value in the management of patients with cancers. Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity is potentially a useful indicator for detection of malignancies, but its status in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is less explored. Aims: The aim of this study is to evaluate the serum level of ALP in OSCC patients and assess its relation with the clinicopathological features. Settings and Design: A total of 175 participants (145 OSCC patients and 30 healthy controls) were included in the study. One hundred and forty-five patients with OSCC who underwent treatment at our institution were included to obtain the clinicopathological data. Materials and Methods: Fasting blood ALP activity was evaluated using ALP assessment kit and biochemistry analyzer. Statistical Analysis Used: The data were analyzed by SPSS-21 software (SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0, Armonk, NY, USA), using t-test, Mann–Whitney U, and Kruskal–Wallis tests. Results: Raised ALP was seen in 24% of OSCC patients. The mean ALP in OSCC was significantly higher than the control. ALP level in patients with advanced stage was significantly higher than with early stage. The serum ALP level in OSCC patients with bone involvement (BI) by local extension of tumor was significantly higher than without BI. Conclusion: ALP showed statistically significant differences in relation to tumor stages and BI. Hence, ALP could be useful in advanced stage disease for expressing the endurance of patient and tumor expansion. Elevated ALP in OSCC patients may indicate BI.
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- Swetha Acharya
- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, S.D.M. College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, S.D.M. College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, S.D.M. College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, S.D.M. College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, S.D.M. College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
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Alkushi A, Omair A, Arabi H, Masuadi E, Abualkhair O. Predictability of 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay by Using Pathological and Immunohistochemical Parameters in Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer (Auckl) 2020; 14:1178223420977848. [PMID: 33343196 PMCID: PMC7727040 DOI: 10.1177/1178223420977848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Background: Oncotype Dx is used to predict the long-term recurrence risk in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative invasive breast cancer (BC). This study aimed at establishing a correlation between clinicopathological parameters and recurrence score (RS), subsequently improving predictability and ultimately justifying the use of the multigene assay. Materials and methods: A retrospective analysis of the pathology and clinical data of 114 female patients with BC who had Oncotype Dx testing between 2012 and 2019. The pathological parameters included are tumor cell type, tumor grade, pathological stage, and mitotic index (MI). The expression of ER, progesterone receptor (PR), HER2, and Ki67 was assessed by immunohistochemistry. A univariate and multivariate linear regression analysis was performed to assess the correlation between these parameters and the RS. Results: In univariate analysis, age (˂40 years), higher tumor grade, and low PR expression were significantly associated with higher RS (P = .02; ˂.001; and ˂.001, respectively). Both MI and Ki67 were also strongly correlated with an increase in the RS with a P value of .01 (Spearman correlation 0.34 and 0.33). In multivariate linear regression analysis, age, MI, and Ki67 lost their significance, but both higher grade and PR remained significantly associated with a higher RS along with the tumor stage (P ˂ .001; ˂.001; and .04, respectively). Conclusions: Tumor grade and PR immunohistochemical expression are the main predictors of RS in our study population. Other clinicopathological features were not significant predictors of change in RS in multivariate analysis.
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- Abdulmohsen Alkushi
- Department of Pathology, King Abdulaziz Medical City of National Guard, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences & King Abdullah International Medical Research Center Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences & King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pathology, King Abdulaziz Medical City of National Guard, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences & King Abdullah International Medical Research Center Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Jin S, Xu C, Wang L, Wei J, Wang S. Impact of Lin28 on lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma. Oncol Lett 2020; 21:97. [PMID: 33376530 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2020.12358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Lin28 is involved in the progression of several types of tumors. Data collected from clinical trials have suggested that Lin28 expression is correlated with poor prognosis in thyroid carcinoma. The present study was conducted to investigate the association between Lin28 expression and the clinicopathological parameters of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Accordingly, the clinical data and diagnostic results from 237 patients with PTC were collected. Immunohistochemical staining was performed to evaluate the Lin28 expression levels in thyroid tissue samples. Associations between the expression levels and clinicopathological parameters were evaluated. Lin28 was expressed in 96/237 (40.5%) of PTC specimens. Compared with patients with no Lin28 expression, patients with expression had higher rates of lymph node metastasis (P<0.001) and larger tumors (P=0.011). Multivariate analysis revealed that Lin28 was associated with lymph node metastasis. Next, bioinformatics analysis was performed based using the Gene Expression Omnibus database and The Cancer Genome Atlas database. Lin28 expression was associated with aggressive tumor characteristics, such as lymph node metastasis and larger tumors. In conclusion, the present study revealed that Lin28 expression served as a risk factor for lymph node metastasis. Accordingly, Lin28 expression may be used as a prognostic marker to predict lymph node metastasis in patients with PTC. In addition, Lin28 may serve as a therapeutic target in the management of this tumor type, which may help improve patient outcomes.
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- Shuxun Jin
- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Jiunhua Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Jiunhua, Zhejiang 321000, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Jiunhua Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Jiunhua, Zhejiang 321000, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Shaoxing, Zhejiang 312000, P.R. China
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- Department of Pathology, Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Shaoxing, Zhejiang 312000, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Shaoxing, Zhejiang 312000, P.R. China
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Fu HB, Luo L. [Expression of HOX transcript antisense intergenic RNA in salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma and its influence on prognosis]. Hua Xi Kou Qiang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2020; 38:509-512. [PMID: 33085233 DOI: 10.7518/hxkq.2020.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the expression of HOX transcript antisense intergenic RNA (HOTAIR) in salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma (SACC) and explore its influence on prognosis. METHODS A total of 86 cases of patients with SACC who underwent surgical resection treatment from March 2007 to March 2014 were selected. In the same period, 45 cases of normal salivary gland tissues were obtained. The expression of HOTAIR was detected via real-time fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction. The patients were followed up after the surgery, and the follow-up deadline was March 31, 2019. The deaths and survival times of patients were recorded. Based on the quartile value of the relative expression level of HOTAIR in SACC patients, the patients were divided into low expression group and high expression group. Kaplan-Meier method and Log-Rank test were used to compare the survival time of the two groups. Taking the age, sex, tumor location, pathological type, tumor diameter, TNM stage, nerve invasion and lymph node metastasis as independent variables, Cox proportional hazards regression model was used to analyze the multiple factors affecting survival time. RESULTS The relative expression of HOTAIR in SACC tissue was 2.48±0.22, which was higher than that in normal salivary gland tissue at 1.03±0.13, and the difference was statistically significant (t=39.812, P<0.001). No nerve invasion and lymph node metastasis were observed in these patients compared with those patients with TNM stages Ⅰ or Ⅱ, while the relative expression of HOTAIR in the tissues of patients with TNM stages Ⅲ or Ⅳ, nerve invasion, and lymph node metastasis increased (P<0.05). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that the average survival time and cumulative survival rate in the low expression group were higher than those in the high expression group [(113.32±10.77) months vs. (59.75±6.50) months and 72.73% vs. 39.06%, respectively, P=0.004]. Cox proportional hazard regression analysis showed that nerve invasion, lymph node metastasis, and the high expression of HOTAIR were the inde-pendent risk factors for the prognosis of patients with SACC (HR=3.274, 2.971, and 2.911, respectively, P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS HOTAIR was highly expressed in patients with SACC tissues and associated with poor prognosis. It is a risk factor for prog-nosis, and it is expected to be a potential marker for the prognostic assessment of patients with SACC.
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- Han-Bin Fu
- Dept. of Stomatology, Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, Wuhan 430063, China
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- Dept. of Stomatology, Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, Wuhan 430063, China
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Folate receptor alpha (FOLR1), a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked protein, is a well characterized folate transporter. However, the prognostic power of FOLR1 in cancer remains controversial. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the prognostic roles of FOLR1 on different cancers. Twelve studies involving 4471 patients were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled analysis indicated that high FOLR1 significantly predicted poor overall survival (OS) (pooled hazard ratio (HR) = 0.78, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.64-0.94, p = 0.009) and the disease-free survival (DFS) (HR = 1.25, 95% CI = 1.07-1.47, p = 0.005). Subgroup analyses based on tumour type found that high FOLR1 level was associated with poor OS in breast cancer (HR = 2.66, 95% CI = 1.54-4.59, p = 0.0005) and endometrial carcinoma (HR = 1.30, 95% CI = 1.05-1.61, p = 0.02). However, FOLR1 has relatively weakly correlation with gender, tumour size and chemotherapy. Additionally, overexpression of FOLR1 was correlated with grade, FIGO stage, vital status and nodule status. The present meta-analysis indicated that the high expression of FOLR1 is associated with the poor survival of cancer patients, which is helpful for the clinical decision-making process.
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- Yantong Liu
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Research Center for Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Disease, School of Clinical Medicine, Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China.,Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China
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Nematollahi P, Shakery M, Kefayat A, Goli P. Association of CD49d expression with clinicopathological features of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients in the Iranian population. Int J Physiol Pathophysiol Pharmacol 2020; 12:32-39. [PMID: 32211120 PMCID: PMC7076327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Identification of factors affecting prognosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is important for risk stratification of patients. METHODS In the present study, CD49d expression was analyzed by multi-color flow cytometry in 98 newly diagnosed and untreated CLL patients at the hematopathology ward. The patients were divided into two subgroups according to CD49d expression (30% cut off) and the association of this marker with the patients' clinicopathological properties were evaluated. RESULTS In this study, CD49d expression exhibited significant association with the Rai stage of the disease (P<0.0001), CD38 status (P<0.0001), hemoglobin level (P=0.0006), and platelet count (P=0.0016). The CD49d-positive patients presented in higher stages in comparison with CD49d-negative patients. Although only 1% of the CD49d-negative patients were CD38-positive, this proportion for CD49d-positive group was 69%. However, no significant correlation was observed between CD49d expression and patients' age (P=0.2031), gender (P=0.8119), and absolute lymphocytes count (P=0.1073). CONCLUSION Therefore, CD49d is a grateful biomarker with high association with clinicopathological parameters in CLL patients.
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- Pardis Nematollahi
- Assistant Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, Cancer Prevention Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical ScienceIsfahan, Iran
- Fellowship of Hematopathology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical SciencesShiraz, Iran
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- Department of Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical ScienceIsfahan, Iran
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- Department of Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical ScienceIsfahan, Iran
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- Department of Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical ScienceIsfahan, Iran
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BACKGROUND This study aims to assess the relationship between Rab1A expression and clinicopathological parameters and prognosis of patients with human solid cancer by summarizing the studies included. METHODS PubMed, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library, and other sources were searched for relative studies. The risk ratios (RRs) and confidence interval (CI) were used to assess association between Rab1A expression and clinical parameters and prognosis in solid cancer patients. RESULTS Eight studies were included in the final analysis with 800 patients. The results revealed that expression of Rab1A was significantly related with differentiation (RR = 0.883, 95%CI = 0.782-0.997, P = .044), lymph node metastasis (RR = 0.835, 95%CI = 0.753-0.926, P = .001), tumor-lymph node-metastasis (TNM) stage (RR = 1.190, 95%CI = 1.071-1.322, P < .001) and tumor size (RR = 0.818, 95%CI = 0.730-0.915, P < .001). What is more, no significant difference was seen in 1-year survival between high and low expression of Rab1A in multiple malignancies (RR = 0.855, 95%CI = 0.697-1.050, P = .136). However, increased Rab1A revealed poorer prognosis with 2-year survival (RR = 0.760, 95%CI = 0.701-0.824, P < .001), 3-year survival (RR = 0.669, 95%CI = 0.604-0.742, P < .001), 4-year survival (RR = 0.622, 95%CI = 0.554-0.698, P < .001) and 5-year survival (RR = 0.525, 95%CI = 0.458-0.698, P < .001). Expression of Rab1A was increased obviously in solid cancer tissues compared with the adjacent normal tissue (RR = 4.78, 95%CI 4.05-5.63, P = .015). CONCLUSION This study revealed Rab1A expression links closely with tumor size, differentiation, lymph node metastasis, TNM stage and poor prognosis of human solid cancer patients. It may act as a biomarker of prognosis and a novel therapeutic target in solid cancer.
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- Xinyu Shao
- Department of gastroenterology, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College
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- Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu
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- Department of Medicine, The Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, The Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou
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- Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College
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- Department of gastroenterology, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou
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Acharya S, Prabhu P, Patil VS, Acharya AB, Nikhil K. Immunohistochemical expression of tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis and fibroblast growth factor-inducible immediate early response protein 14 in oral squamous cell carcinoma and its implications. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 10:e12469. [PMID: 31541512 DOI: 10.1111/jicd.12469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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AIM To study the expression of tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) and fibroblast growth factor-inducible immediate early response protein 14 (Fn14) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), to elucidate the possible role of TWEAK-Fn14 in OSCC development. METHODS Immunohistochemistry for TWEAK-Fn14 was performed on 61 oral mucosal samples: healthy oral mucosa (HOM; N = 15); oral dysplastic lesions (ODL; N = 15); and OSCC (N = 31). Extent of staining (ES) and immunoreactive score (IRS) were assessed. The data was statistically analyzed. RESULTS All OSCC expressed TWEAK, and the Fn14 expression was noted in 90% of OSCC. A significant difference in the TWEAK and Fn14 expression was noted among the groups. ES and IRS of TWEAK-Fn14 significantly increased in OSCC compared with ODL and HOM. ES of TWEAK was significantly higher than Fn14 in all 3 groups. ES of TWEAK-Fn14 was significantly higher at the invasive tumor front (ITF) than in the whole tumor. TWEAK-Fn14 showed a significant association with clinicopathological parameters of prognostic significance. CONCLUSION Findings suggest that TWEAK and Fn14 may participate in the growth and progression of OSCC. Increased expression of TWEAK-Fn14 at the ITF may facilitate increased proliferation, altered differentiation and invasion.
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- Swetha Acharya
- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, SDM College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, India
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- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, SDM College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, India
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- Department of Periodontics, SDM College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, India
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- Biostatistician, Department of Public Health Dentistry, SDM College of Dental Sciences & Hospital, Dharwad, India
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He X, Li S, Shi W, Lin Q, Ma J, Liu Y, Feng T, Cao X. Cyclin A1 is associated with poor prognosis in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Oncol Lett 2019; 18:706-712. [PMID: 31289545 PMCID: PMC6546994 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2019.10377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Dysregulation of cyclin A1 (CCNA1) is implicated in the carcinogenesis, progression and metastasis of many types of solid tumours. In the present study, an mRNA single-channel expression profile chip experiment revealed that the CCNA1 mRNA levels in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) were increased >10-fold compared with those in the adjacent non-cancer tissues. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry analyses were performed to additionally investigate the role of CCNA1 in the development and progression of ESCC in patients treated by radical resection of the oesophagus. The association between CCNA1 mRNA expression and the clinicopathological parameters of patients with ESCC was statistically analysed. The results indicated that upregulation of CCNA1 occurred in ~70% of patients with ESCC, and increased CCNA1 mRNA expression was significantly associated with advanced clinical stage, lymph node metastasis, invasiveness and poor clinical outcome, including disease-free survival and overall survival rates. Taken together, the data suggested that CCNA1 had an important function in ESCC development and progression, and may serve as a prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target in ESCC.
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- Xiaoting He
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210000, P.R. China.,Department of Medical Oncology, The Affiliated Wuxi People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214043, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210000, P.R. China
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Yancheng Vocational Institute of Health Sciences, Yancheng, Jiangsu 224005, P.R. China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Jiangyin People's Hospital, Jiangyin, Jiangsu 214400, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210000, P.R. China
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- Department of Pharmacy, No. 401 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, P.R. China
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- Institute of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210000, P.R. China.,Department of Surgery, Nanjing Medical University, Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital, Jiangsu 210000, P.R. China
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Cheaito KA, Bahmad HF, Hadadeh O, Saleh E, Dagher C, Hammoud MS, Shahait M, Mrad ZA, Nassif S, Tawil A, Bulbul M, Khauli R, Wazzan W, Nasr R, Shamseddine A, Temraz S, El-Sabban ME, El-Hajj A, Mukherji D, Abou-Kheir W. EMT Markers in Locally-Advanced Prostate Cancer: Predicting Recurrence? Front Oncol 2019; 9:131. [PMID: 30915272 PMCID: PMC6421270 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most frequent cause of cancer-related death in men worldwide. It is a heterogeneous disease at molecular and clinical levels which makes its prognosis and treatment outcome hard to predict. The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) marks a key step in the invasion and malignant progression of PCa. We sought to assess the co-expression of epithelial cytokeratin 8 (CK8) and mesenchymal vimentin (Vim) in locally-advanced PCa as indicators of EMT and consequently predictors of the progression status of the disease. Methods: Co-expression of CK8 and Vim was evaluated by immunofluorescence (IF) on paraffin-embedded tissue sections of 122 patients with PCa who underwent radical prostatectomies between 1998 and 2016 at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC). EMT score was calculated accordingly and then correlated with the patients' clinicopathological parameters and PSA failure. Results: The co-expression of CK8/Vim (EMT score), was associated with increasing Gleason group. A highly significant linear association was detected wherein higher Gleason group was associated with higher mean EMT score. In addition, the median estimated biochemical recurrence-free survival for patients with < 25% EMT score was almost double that of patients with more than 25%. The validity of this score for prediction of prognosis was further demonstrated using cox regression model. Our data also confirmed that the EMT score can predict PSA failure irrespective of Gleason group, pathological stage, or surgical margins. Conclusion: This study suggests that assessment of molecular markers of EMT, particularly CK8 and Vim, in radical prostatectomy specimens, in addition to conventional clinicopathological prognostic parameters, can aid in the development of a novel system for predicting the prognosis of locally-advanced PCa.
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- Katia A Cheaito
- Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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Sui A, Zhang X, Zhu Q. Diagnostic value of serum miR197 and miR145 in non-small cell lung cancer. Oncol Lett 2019; 17:3247-52. [PMID: 30867756 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2019.9958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Diagnostic value of microRNA (miR)-197 and miR-145 in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and their relationship with the clinicopathological parameters of NSCLC patients were investigated. Seventy-six patients with NSCLC admitted to Jimo Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine from July 2016 to March 2018 were enrolled in group A, while 60 healthy who received health examinations during the same period were enrolled in group B. The relative expression levels of serum miR-197 and miR-145 were detected by RT-qPCR. The relative expression of serum miR-197 in group A was significantly higher than that in group B (P<0.001); the relative expression of serum miR-145 in group A was significantly lower than that in group B (P<0.001); serum miR-197 in group A showed association with the clinical stage of NSCLC patients (P<0.001); serum miR-145 in group A was associated with the clinical stage and pathological differentiation of patients with NSCLC (P<0.001). The AUC of serum miR-197 diagnosis of NSCLC was 0.864 (95% CI: 0.804-0.924), with a diagnostic sensitivity of 73.68% and a specificity of 85.00%; the AUC of serum miR-145 diagnosis of NSCLC was 0.879 (95% CI: 0.824-0.934), with a diagnostic sensitivity of 84.21% and a specificity of 71.67%; the AUC of the diagnosis of the combination of serum miR-197 and miR-145 for NSCLC was 0.952 (95% CI: 0.919-0.984), with a diagnostic sensitivity of 92.10% and a specificity of 78.33%. miR-197 and miR-145 are potential new biomarkers in the diagnosis of NSCLC due to their possible involvement in the occurrence and development of NSCLC. With good sensitivity and specificity of single miR-197 and single miR-145 for the diagnosis of NSCLC, the combined detection of miR-197 and miR-145 can achieve a better sensitivity in the diagnosis of NSCLC.
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Zhang P, Fan C, Du J, Mo X, Zhao Q. Association of miR-1247-5p expression with clinicopathological parameters and prognosis in breast cancer. Int J Exp Pathol 2018; 99:199-205. [PMID: 30175411 PMCID: PMC6157300 DOI: 10.1111/iep.12287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/29/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Our study aimed to clarify the correlation between miR‐1247‐5p expression and clinicopathological parameters and survival of patients with breast cancer (BC). We evaluated the expression level of miR‐1247‐5p in 224 formalin‐fixed, paraffin‐embedded specimens (112 BC and matched cancer free tissues) by quantitative real‐time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT‐PCR). miR‐1247‐5p expression in BC tissues was found to be decreased compared with matched normal tissues (P < 0.01). Additionally, low miR‐1247‐5p expression in BC tissues was significantly associated with the advanced TNM stage (P = 0.007), lymph node metastasis (P = 0.015), poorer pathological differentiation (P = 0.005) and molecular subtype (P = 0.027). The patients in the low miR‐1247‐5p group had a shorter disease‐free survival and overall survival than those in the high miR‐1247‐5p group (P < 0.01). Furthermore, the univariate and the multivariate analyses showed that miR‐1247‐5p expression was an independent predictor of overall survival (P < 0.01). Our study showed that miR‐1247‐5p was related to the biological behaviour of breast tumour and prognosis of patients with BC. miR‐1247‐5p could be a novel tumour suppressor and act as a potential biomarker and therapeutic agent for breast carcinoma.
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- Peng Zhang
- Department of Breast Disease, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Breast Disease, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Breast Disease, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Breast Disease, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Breast Disease, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China
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Background: Increasing evidence shows that dysregulated expression of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can serve as diagnostic or prognostic markers in bladder cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical values of dysregulated lncRNAs in bladder cancer. Methods: Eligible studies were systematically searched in PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases from inception to December 2017. Odds ratios (OR) were calculated to investigate the correlation between lncRNAs and clinicopathological parameters. Pooled hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated to explore the prognostic value of lncRNAs in bladder cancer. Pooled diagnostic parameters were also calculated to estimate the performance of lncRNAs in diagnosing bladder cancer. All statistical analyses were performed by using STATA 13.1 program. Results: A total of 37 relevant studies were included to the present systematic review according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, including 26 on clinicopathological parameters, 19 on prognosis, and 7 on diagnosis. For clinicopathological parameters, MALAT1 expression was significantly associated with lymph node metastasis (OR = 2.731; 95% CI: 1.409–5.292; p = 0.003), and high-level expression of XIST was related to larger tumor size (OR = 2.473; 95% CI: 1.159–5.276; p = 0.019) and higher TNM stage (OR = 0.400; 95% CI, 0.184–0.868; p = 0.020). For the prognostic values, the most significant association was observed between increased expressions of SPRY4-IT1 and poor overall survival (OS) (HR = 3.716; 95% CI: 2.084–6.719; p < 0.001); high MALAT1 expression was significantly associated with poor OS (HR = 1.611; 95% CI: 1.076–2.412; p = 0.020). For the diagnostic values, UCA1 expression profile achieved a combined AUC of 0.92, with sensitivity of 0.84 and specificity of 0.89 in distinguishing patients with bladder cancer from non-cancerous controls. Conclusions: In summary, systematic review elaborated that abnormal lncRNAs expression can serve as potential markers for prognostic evaluation in bladder cancer patients. In addition, the diagnostic meta-analysis concluded that abnormally expressed UCA1 can function as potential diagnostic markers for bladder cancer.
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- Guoming Su
- Department of Pharmacy and Laboratory, Sichuan Nursing Vocational College, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Toxicological Detection, Sichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China
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Wei YT, Luo YZ, Feng ZQ, Huang QX, Mo AS, Mo SX. TK1 overexpression is associated with the poor outcomes of lung cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Biomark Med 2018; 12:403-413. [PMID: 29575921 DOI: 10.2217/bmm-2017-0249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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AIM The study aimed to unveil the effect of TK1 expression on the clinicopathological significance and prognosis in patients with lung cancer. Results & methodology: Studies for meta-analysis were selected according to a thorough literature search in databases (PubMed, EMBASE and Chinese databases). Ten studies containing 1393 lung cancer patients were investigated in our analysis. The TK1 overexpression was associated with poorer overall survival(OS) in lung cancer patients (hazard ratio = 1.881; 95% CI:1.318-2.684, Z = 3.48; p = 0.001). Furthermore, The TK1 expression is associated with the clinicopathological features of lung cancer patients (tumor type, age, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis and tumor, node, metastasis [TNM] stages). Discussion & conclusion: The TK1 expression might have a supportive implication in assessing biological behavior and prognosis of lung cancer patients.
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- Yi-Tong Wei
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University, Nanning 530023, PR China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University, Nanning 530023, PR China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University, Nanning 530023, PR China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University, Nanning 530023, PR China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University, Nanning 530023, PR China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University, Nanning 530023, PR China
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Xu Z, Wang L, Tian J, Man H, Li P, Shan B. High expression of B7-H3 and CD163 in cancer tissues indicates malignant clinicopathological status and poor prognosis of patients with urothelial cell carcinoma of the bladder. Oncol Lett 2018; 15:6519-6526. [PMID: 29725402 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2018.8173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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The objective of the present study was to investigate the association of B7-H3 expression and cluster of differentiation (CD)163+ tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) infiltration with clinicopathological parameters in urothelial cell carcinoma of the bladder (UCB), and to investigate their potential conjoint effects on progression of UCB. B7-H3 expression and CD163+ TAM infiltration in tumor specimens from 134 consecutive patients that underwent radical cystectomy for UCB were tested using immunohistochemistry, followed by statistical analysis. In these 134 patients, B7-H3 expression and CD163+ TAM infiltration in the bladder carcinoma tissues were significantly associated with an increased ratio of vascular invasion (P=0.009; P=0.012) and distant metastasis (P=0.015; P=0.038); however, they were not associated with gender, age, pathologic grade, tumor stage, recurrence or lymphatic metastasis. The results of χ2 test analysis indicated that CD163+ TAM infiltration and B7-H3 expression were positively correlated (χ2=20.714; P<0.001). Overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) rates were significantly worsened by high B7-H3 expression (P=0.002; P=0.020). However, CD163+ TAM infiltration was not associated with OS or PFS rate. Notably, the OS and PFS rates in patients with high B7-H3 expression or high CD163+ TAM infiltration were significantly poorer than the patients with low B7-H3 expression (P<0.001; P<0.001) or low CD163+ TAM infiltration (P=0.022; P=0.017) in the subgroup of 115 patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. The results of the present study indicate that B7-H3 expression level could be used as an independent prognostic indicator following radical cystectomy for UCB and patients with high B7-H3 expression and high CD163+ TAM infiltration experience a poorer prognosis.
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- Zhili Xu
- Department of Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050011, P.R. China
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- Department of Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050011, P.R. China
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- Department of Urology, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050011, P.R. China
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- Department of Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050011, P.R. China
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- Department of Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050011, P.R. China
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- Department of Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050011, P.R. China
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Bao J, Nanding A, Song H, Xu R, Qu G, Xue Y. The overexpression of MDM4: an effective and novel predictor of gastric adenocarcinoma lymph node metastasis. Oncotarget 2018; 7:67212-67222. [PMID: 27626496 PMCID: PMC5341869 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.11971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Background MDM4 is the important negative regulator of the tumor suppressor protein p53, which is overexpressed in various human cancers. This study evaluates the MDM4 expression in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma (GTAC) at the mRNA and protein levels and examines relationships among MDM4 expression, clinicopathological features, and prognosis. Results The qRT-PCR and the Western blot analysis showed that the MDM4 expression level was high in GTACN+ but not in GTACN−. The high expression level of MDM4 was significantly associated with age (P = 0.047), lymph node metastasis (LNM) (P < 0.001), pathological stage (P < 0.001), differentiation status (P = 0.001), and preoperative serum CA19-9 level (P < 0.001). Moreover, the survival analysis showed that Borrmann type, depth of invasion, LNM, and preoperative serum CA19-9 level were independent prognostic factors. The univariate analysis revealed that MDM4 expression influenced GTAC prognosis. Furthermore, the influence of overall prognosis relies on whether or not the high MDM4 expression level could lead to LNM. Materials and Methods We investigated MDM4 expression in primary GTAC and paired normal gastric tissues (30 pairs) through qRT-PCR and Western blot analyses. We also performed immunohistochemistry analysis on 336 paraffin-embedded GTAC specimens and 33 matched normal specimens. Conclusions MDM4 expression may result in LMN of GTAC. High MDM4 expression levels are associated with LMN of GTAC and influence the prognosis of patients with GTAC.
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- Junjie Bao
- Department of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China.,Department of Orthopedics, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China
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- Department of Pathology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China
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- Department of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Harbin Children's Hospital, Harbin, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China
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- Department of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China
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Sliwinska-Jewsiewicka A, Kowalczyk AE, Krazinski BE, Godlewski J, Kwiatkowski P, Kiewisz J, Grzegrzolka J, Dziegiel P, Kmiec Z. Decreased Expression of SATB2 Associates with Tumor Growth and Predicts Worse Outcome in Patients with Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Anticancer Res 2018; 38:839-846. [PMID: 29374710 DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.12292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2017] [Revised: 12/10/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIM SATB2 (special AT-rich sequence-binding protein 2) is a DNA-binding protein that is involved in transcriptional regulation and chromatin remodeling. SATB2 protein has been described as a promising novel marker in several human cancers. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study compared SATB2 expression in tumor and matched unchanged renal tissues collected from 57 patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). SATB2 mRNA levels were determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction, while SATB2 protein expression was estimated by immunohistochemistry. Moreover, the associations between SATB2 expression in ccRCC samples and clinicopathological and survival data of the patients were investigated. RESULTS The mRNA level of SATB2 was lower in tumor tissues than in samples of corresponding unchanged kidney. Although the average immunoreactivity of SATB2 protein did not differ significantly between cancer cells and epithelial cells of proximal convoluted tubules, the decreased SATB2 expression in tumor specimens inversely correlated with the size of primary tumor and predicted worse patients' outcome. CONCLUSION The results of the presented study suggest the tumor-suppressing function of SATB2 and that the expression level of this protein can be considered a potential prognostic factor in ccRCC.
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- Agnieszka Sliwinska-Jewsiewicka
- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.,Department of Physiotherapy, Wroclaw University School of Physical Education, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland.,Department of Histology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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Jiang M, Qiu Z, Zhang S, Fan X, Cai X, Xu B, Li X, Zhou J, Zhang X, Chu Y, Wang W, Liang J, Horvath T, Yang X, Wu K, Nie Y, Fan D. Elevated O-GlcNAcylation promotes gastric cancer cells proliferation by modulating cell cycle related proteins and ERK 1/2 signaling. Oncotarget 2018; 7:61390-61402. [PMID: 27542217 PMCID: PMC5308659 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.11359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2016] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) is the only enzyme in mammals that catalyzes the attachment of β-D-N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) to serine or threonine residues of target proteins. Hyper-O-GlcNAcylation is becoming increasingly realized as a general feature of cancer and contributes to rapid proliferation of cancer cells. In this study, we demonstrated that O-GlcNAc and OGT levels were increased in all six gastric cancer (GC) cell lines as compared with immortal gastric epithelial cells. Downregulation of the O-GlcNAcylation level by silencing OGT inhibited cell viability and growth rate via the cdk-2, cyclin D1 and ERK 1/2 pathways. In vivo xenograft assays also demonstrated that the hyper-O-GlcNAc level markedly promoted the proliferation of tumors. Moreover, compared with noncancerous tissues, the O-GlcNAcylation level was increased in cancerous tissues. GC patients with higher levels of O-GlcNAcylation exhibited large tumor sizes (≥5 cm), deep tumor invasion (T3 and T4), high AJCC stages (stage III and IV), more lymph node metastases and lower overall survival. Notably, the phosphorylation level of ERK 1/2 was increased progressively with the increase of O-GlcNAcylation in both SGC 7901 and AGS cells. Consistently, human GC tissue arrays also revealed that ERK 1/2 signaling was positively correlated to O-GlcNAcylation (r = 0.348; P = 0.015). Taken together, here we reported that hyper-O-GlcNAcylation significantly promotes GC cells proliferation by modulating cell cycle related proteins and ERK 1/2 signaling, suggesting that inhibition of OGT may be a potential novel therapeutic target of GC.
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- Mingzuo Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, 301 Hospital, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Institute of Plastic Surgery of The Chinese PLA, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
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- Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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Xu T, Shen G, Cheng M, Xu W, Shen G, Hu S. Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of circulating tumor cells in patients with lung cancer: a meta-analysis. Oncotarget 2017; 8:62524-62536. [PMID: 28977966 PMCID: PMC5617526 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.19122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The prognostic significance of circulating tumor cells in patients with lung cancer is controversial. Therefore, we aimed to comprehensively and quantitatively assess the prognostic role of CTCs in patients with lung cancer. METHODS The relevant literature was searched using PubMed, the Cochrane database and the China National Knowledge Internet database (up to June 2016). Using Review Manager 5.1.2, a meta-analysis was performed using hazard ratio (HR), odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) as effect values. RESULTS Thirty studies comprising 2,060 patients with lung cancer were analyzed. The pooled HR values showed that circulating tumor cells were significantly correlated with overall survival (HR =2.63, 95% CI [2.04, 3.39]) and progression-free survival (HR =3.74, 95% CI [2.49, 5.61]) in these patients. Further subgroup analyses were conducted and categorized by sampling time, detection method, and histological type; these analyses showed the same trend. The pooled OR values showed that circulating tumor cells were associated with non small cell lung cancer stage(OR = 2.11, 95% CI [1.42, 3.14]), small cell lung cancer stage (OR = 10.91, 95% CI [4.10, 29.06]), distant metastasis (OR =7.06, 95%CI [2.82, 17.66]), lymph node metastasis (OR =2.31, 95% CI [1.19,4.46]), and performance status(OR =0.42, 95%CI [0.22, 0.78]). CONCLUSION The detection of circulating tumor cells in the peripheral blood of patients with lung cancer can be indicative of a poor prognosis.
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- Tingjuan Xu
- Gerontology Institute of Anhui Province, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230001, China.,Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Tumor Immunotherapy and Nutrition Therapy, Hefei 230001, China
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- Gerontology Institute of Anhui Province, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230001, China.,Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Tumor Immunotherapy and Nutrition Therapy, Hefei 230001, China
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- Gerontology Institute of Anhui Province, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230001, China.,Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Tumor Immunotherapy and Nutrition Therapy, Hefei 230001, China
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- Gerontology Institute of Anhui Province, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230001, China.,Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Tumor Immunotherapy and Nutrition Therapy, Hefei 230001, China
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- Gerontology Institute of Anhui Province, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230001, China.,Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Tumor Immunotherapy and Nutrition Therapy, Hefei 230001, China
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- Gerontology Institute of Anhui Province, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230001, China.,Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Tumor Immunotherapy and Nutrition Therapy, Hefei 230001, China
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Zhang QY, Fu MT, Zhang ZF, Feng YZ, Wei M, Zhou JY, Shi R. Expression of TMEM40 in bladder cancer and its correlation with clinicopathological parameters. Int J Clin Exp Pathol 2017; 10:8050-8057. [PMID: 31966657 PMCID: PMC6965264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Transmembrane protein 40 (TMEM40) is a 23-kDa protein in cell membrane. There is no report that TMEM40 is associated with cancer. However, our study found that TMEM40 was high expressed in bladder cancer tissues. Immunohistochemical analyses of TMEM40 expression were performed on a tissue microarray including 72 transitional cell carcinomas and 43 normal bladder tissues to investigate the expression and clinical significance of TMEM40 in bladder cancer. We adopted receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis to select the optimal cut-off score. TMEM40 expression was defined positive if above 62.5% of cells were stained, and below it was negative. Then, the expression of TMEM40 in bladder cancer cells was evaluated by quantitative real-time PCR and western blot analysis. A significantly high level of TMEM40 in bladder cancer cells was proved. On the basis of ROC curve analysis, TMEM40 expression was positive in 68.1% (n=49) and negative in 31.9% (n=23) of bladder cancer cases. TMEM40 staining was positive in 2.3% (n=1) and negative in 97.7% (n=42) of normal bladder tissues. It showed that TMEM40 was up-regulated in bladder cancer tissues compared to normal bladder tissues. Moreover, TMEM40 expression was significantly associated with histological grade (P<0.05), clinical stage (P<0.05), pT status (P<0.05), but not age. Our study demonstrates that high TMEM40 expression is associated with bladder cancer, and it could be a diagnostic biomarker for bladder cancer.
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- Qing-Yan Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
- The First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
- The First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical UniversityGuangzhou, China
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Kowalczyk AE, Krazinski BE, Godlewski J, Grzegrzolka J, Kiewisz J, Kwiatkowski P, Sliwinska-Jewsiewicka A, Dziegiel P, Kmiec Z. SATB1 is Down-regulated in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma and Correlates with miR-21-5p Overexpression and Poor Prognosis. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2016; 13:209-217. [PMID: 27107063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Altered expression of special AT-rich sequence binding protein 1 (SATB1) was reported in several types of human cancers. This study aimed to determine the expression levels of SATB1, as well as miR-21-5p -the post-transcriptional repressor of SATB1 expression- in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) and to investigate their association with the progression of ccRCC. MATERIALS AND METHODS Immunohistochemistry and quantitative polymerase chain reaction were used to assess the expression of SATB1 protein and mRNA as well as miR-21-5p in tumor and matched normal kidney tissues collected from 56 ccRCC patients. RESULTS Nuclear SATB1 immunoreactivity was elevated in ccRCC cells while its cytoplasmic expression was decreased. SATB1 mRNA level was down-regulated in ccRCC tissue and inversely correlated with the content of miR-21-5p. Down-regulation of SATB1 mRNA and up-regulation of miR-21-5p were associated with shorter patient survival. CONCLUSION Decreased expression of SATB1 in ccRCC may result from over-expressed miR-21-5p. Our data suggest that SATB1 may have a potential value as a prognostic marker in ccRCC.
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- Anna E Kowalczyk
- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland Department of Physiotherapy, Wroclaw University School of Physical Education, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Human Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland Department of Histology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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Li DQ, Qiu M, Nie XM, Gui R, Huang MZ. Oxidored-nitro domain-containing protein 1 expression is associated with the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma. Oncol Lett 2016; 11:3003-3008. [PMID: 27123053 PMCID: PMC4840759 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2016.4362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2015] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Hepatocarcinogenesis is a stepwise process during which multiple genes are altered. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that induce hepatocarcinogenesis may improve the screening, prevention and treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In recent years, the oxidored-nitro domain-containing protein 1 (NOR1) gene has been identified to have an important role in the development of HCC in vitro experiments. The current study aimed to examine the expression of NOR1 mRNA and protein expression in specimens of normal liver, hepatitis, cirrhosis and HCC, together representing the process of HCC development. Furthermore, the association between NOR1 expression and clinicopathological parameters of HCC patients was analyzed. Tissue microarrays containing the specimens of human normal liver, hepatitis, cirrhosis and HCC were purchased, and in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry were used to detect the expression of NOR1 mRNA and protein expression, respectively. It was revealed that the positive rate of NOR1 protein and mRNA expression in the specimens of hepatitis and cirrhosis were not significantly different from that in the normal liver samples. However, the specimens of HCC exhibited an increased positive rate of NOR1 protein and mRNA expression in comparison with the normal liver samples. In addition, a higher positive rate of NOR1 protein expression was observed in HCC patients with a poor pathological differentiation grade and high tumor node metastasis (TNM) stage. In conclusion, the present study provides evidence, for the first time, of the increased expression of NOR1 in human HCC tissues, and its correlation with the pathological stage and TNM status. These findings indicate that NOR1 may be involved in the progression of HCC and it could be employed as a predictive biomarker in HCC development.
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- Deng-Qing Li
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Clinical Laboratory Centre of The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Clinical Laboratory Centre of The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Public Health School of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410078, P.R. China
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Al-Ezzy AIA. Evaluation of Clinicopathological and Risk Factors for Nonmalignant H. Pylori Associated Gastroduodenal Disorders in Iraqi Patients. Open Access Maced J Med Sci 2015; 3:645-54. [PMID: 27275302 PMCID: PMC4877902 DOI: 10.3889/oamjms.2015.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Revised: 10/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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AIM: To determine the risk factors associated with H. pylori infection and possible correlation with clinicopathological parameters. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Gastroduodenal biopsies were examined by rapid urease test and Gram staining. Cag A cytotoxin was detected by in situ hybridization. RESULTS: Risk of H. pylori acquisition reported as following: Males have 1.38 fold, rural residents have 0.63 fold, Nonsmokers have 0.39 fold, mild smokers have 18 fold, and moderate smokers have 1.4 fold while heavy smokers have 1 fold. A person who’s in contact with animals has 1.52 fold risks. Illiterates and patients with primary education have 5.36 & 3 fold risk respectively. Patients under proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy have 1.02 fold. Patients under NSAID therapy have 3.48 fold while nonalcoholic Patients have 0.75 fold. Patients using tap water have 0.45 fold risk. H. pylori infection positively correlated with age, weight loss, and heartburn. H. pylori inversely correlated with endoscopic diagnosis, Cag A positivity, and education level. Cag A positivity correlated with animal contact and NSAID usage. CONCLUSIONS: Several life style factors, education, animal contact, using of PPI, and NSAIDs increase the risk of H. pylori infection. Weight loss and heartburn cardinal signs for H. pylori infection. Endoscopic diagnosis and clinicopathological parameters not strictly associated with Cag A positivity.
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- Ali Ibrahim Ali Al-Ezzy
- Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Diyala University, Baquba, Diyala Province, Iraq
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Zhou XC, Su M, Hu KQ, Su YF, Ye YH, Huang CQ, Yu ZL, Li XY, Zhou H, Ni YZ, Jiang YI, Lou Z. CT pelvimetry and clinicopathological parameters in evaluation of the technical difficulties in performing open rectal surgery for mid-low rectal cancer. Oncol Lett 2015; 11:31-38. [PMID: 26870163 PMCID: PMC4727119 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2015.3827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The present study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of pelvic anatomical and clinicopathological parameters for use in the estimation of the likely technical difficulties that may be encountered when performing open rectal surgery for mid-low rectal cancer. Sixty consecutive patients, undergoing open rectal surgery for mid-low rectal cancer were recruited between June 2009 and April 2014. All of the surgical procedures conducted, were low anterior resection (LAR) or abdominoperineal resection (APR). The operations were performed by the same surgeon and surgical team. Pelvic dimensions and angles were measured using three-dimensional reconstruction of spiral computerized tomography (CT) images. Operative time and intraoperative blood loss were used as indicators of operative difficulty. The independent variables were pelvic anatomical and clinicopathological parameters, and the dependent variables were operative time and intraoperative blood loss. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed in order to determine the predictive significance of these variables. The pelvis width was significantly wider in females than in males (P<0.05), while the sacrococcygeal bending degree was significantly greater in males than in females (P<0.05). No significant difference were detected between the pelvis depth of females and males (P>0.05). Multivariate analyses showed that body mass index (BMI), tumor height, lymph node metastasis, anteroposterior diameter of the pelvic inlet, anteroposterior diameter of the pelvic outlet, height of the pubic symphysis, the sacrococcygeal distance, sacrococcygeal-pubic angle and diameter of the upper pubis to the coccyx were the main factors affecting the operative time (all P<0.05), while the maximum diameter of the tumor was the primary factor affecting intraoperative blood loss (P<0.05). Between the two procedures, the clinicopathological parameters appeared to be more valuable for predicting difficulty in LAR, in which operative time was associated with tumor height and tumor staging (RC2=0.312; P<0.001). By contrast, the pelvic anatomical parameters appeared to be more valuable predictors of variation in APR, in which intraoperative blood loss was associated with the anteroposterior diameter of the mid-pelvis, the anteroposterior diameter of the pelvic outlet, the interspinous diameter, the depth of the sacral curvature and the sacropubic distance (RC2=0.608; P=0.002). BMI, tumor height and the maximum diameter of the tumor may be used to predict the operative difficulty in performing open rectal surgery for mid-low rectal cancer. In addition to the associated clinicopathological parameters, wider, shallower and less curved pelvises may make the greatest contribution to reducing operative time and intraoperative blood loss. Operative difficulty is likely to be increased in deeper and narrower pelvises, or in those with greater sacrococcygeal curvature.
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- Xiao-Cong Zhou
- Department of Surgery, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Radio-Chemotherapy Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Pathology, The Dingli Clinical Institute of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou Central Hospital), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, P.R. China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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Sun J, Chen C, Wei W, Zheng H, Yuan J, Tu YI, Yao F, Wang L, Yao X, Li J, Li Y, Sun S. Associations and indications of Ki67 expression with clinicopathological parameters and molecular subtypes in invasive breast cancer: A population-based study. Oncol Lett 2015; 10:1741-1748. [PMID: 26622743 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2015.3461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2014] [Accepted: 01/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Ki67 has potential prognostic and predictive values for breast cancer patients, and has become an important biomarker in routine clinical practice. The aims of the present study were to investigate the distribution of Ki67 expression and its correlation with other clinicopathological parameters in central China. In total, 1,259 patients with newly-diagnosed invasive breast cancer were included in the present study. The clinical information was obtained from the electronic medical records. The expression levels of Ki67, estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) were detected by immunohistochemical analysis. The associations between Ki67 scores and other prognostic factors were evaluated as continuous and categorical variables. The mean value of the Ki67 scores of all patients was 31%. In total, ~36% (456/1,259) of the patients demonstrated a low expression of Ki67. A statistically significant correlation was identified between the mean Ki67 scores and the lymph node status, tumor grade, ER, PR and HER2 status, and clinical stage or molecular subtypes (all P<0.001). When Ki67 was categorized into high (>14%) and low (≤14%) level groups, the χ2 test was used to verify these results. The Ki67 scores demonstrated no statistically significant differences between the HER2-positive (non-luminal) and three negative subtypes, with the exception of patients with a tumor size of >2 cm (P=0.02). In conclusion, the results revealed the presence of significant correlations between Ki67 and other clinicopathological parameters.
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- Jinzhong Sun
- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China ; Department of General Surgery, Xiangyang Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, Hubei 431000, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behaviors, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China ; Department of Pathology, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, Hubei 430014, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behaviors, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430060, P.R. China
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Wang Z, Sheng YY, Gao XM, Wang CQ, Wang XY, Lu XU, Wei JW, Zhang KL, Dong QZ, Qin LX. β-catenin mutation is correlated with a favorable prognosis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Mol Clin Oncol 2015; 3:936-940. [PMID: 26171210 DOI: 10.3892/mco.2015.569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 04/15/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The β-catenin gene is frequently mutated in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and has long been thought to be one of the major oncogenes involved in the hepatocarcinogenesis. The prognostic role of β-catenin mutation in HCC remains unclear. To address this issue, a search for relevant studies was performed in the PubMed, Embase and Web of Science databases. The pooled effect was calculated from the available data to evaluate the correlation of β-catenin mutation with overall survival rate and tumor clinicopathological features in patients with HCC. The pooled odds ratio (OR) was calculated using the Mantel-Haenszel model for fixed effects. Three studies met the inclusion criteria. A total of 618 cases were included, and β-catenin mutation was identified in 104 of them. The meta-analysis revealed that the presence of β-catenin mutation (n=104), compared with the control group (n=514), was correlated with a longer overall survival rate [OR, 0.33; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.21-0.53; P<0.00001] in patients with HCC. No significant heterogeneity was found among the eligible studies (I2=0%; P=0.72). β-catenin mutation was correlated with a relatively lower rate of hepatitis B virus infection (OR, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.21-0.61; P=0.0002), improved tumor differentiation (OR, 0.32; 95% CI, 0.19-0.56; P<0.0001) and a lower tumor-node-metastasis stage (I+II) (OR, 0.23; 95% CI, 0.14-0.38; P<0.00001). These findings suggest that β-catenin mutation may predict a favorable prognosis in patients with HCC.
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- Zheng Wang
- Department of Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, P.R. China ; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, P.R. China ; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, P.R. China ; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, P.R. China ; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, P.R. China ; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Department of Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, P.R. China ; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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Geng B, Liang MM, Ye XB, Zhao WY. Association of CA 15-3 and CEA with clinicopathological parameters in patients with metastatic breast cancer. Mol Clin Oncol 2014; 3:232-236. [PMID: 25469301 DOI: 10.3892/mco.2014.419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Accepted: 09/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The objective of this study was to investigate the association of serum cancer antigen 15-3 (CA 15-3) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels with clinicopathological parameters in patients diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). We retrospectively evaluated the medical records of 284 patients diagnosed with MBC between January, 2007 and December, 2012 who fulfilled the specified criteria and the association between the levels of the two tumor marker and clinicopathological parameters was analyzed. Of the 284 patients, elevated CA 15-3 and CEA levels at initial diagnosis of recurrence were identified in 163 (57.4%) and 97 (34.2%) patients, respectively. Elevated CA 15-3 and CEA levels were significantly associated with breast cancer molecular subtypes (P<0.001 and P=0.032, respectively). Cases with luminal subtypes exhibited a higher percentage of elevated CA 15-3 and CEA levels compared to non-luminal subtypes. Elevated CA 15-3 level was correlated with bone metastasis (P=0.017). However, elevation of CEA was observed regardless of the site of metastasis. Elevation of CA 15-3 was significantly more common in MBC with multiple metastatic sites compared to MBC with a single metastasis (P=0.001). However, the incidence of elevated CEA levels did not differ between patients with a single and those with multiple metastatic sites. In conclusion, elevated CA 15-3 and CEA levels at initial diagnosis of recurrence were found to be associated with breast cancer molecular subtypes, whereas an elevated CA 15-3 level was significantly correlated with bone metastasis and an elevated CEA level was observed regardless of metastatic site. The proportion of MBC cases with elevated CA 15-3 levels differed according to the number of metastatic sites.
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- Biao Geng
- Departments of Medical Oncology and The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, Anhui 241001, P.R. China
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, Anhui 241001, P.R. China
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- Departments of Medical Oncology and The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, Anhui 241001, P.R. China
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- Departments of Medical Oncology and The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, Anhui 241001, P.R. China
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Sun Z, Yu X, Wang H, Zhang S, Zhao Z, Xu R. Clinical significance of mismatch repair gene expression in sporadic colorectal cancer. Exp Ther Med 2014; 8:1416-1422. [PMID: 25289032 PMCID: PMC4186363 DOI: 10.3892/etm.2014.1927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Mismatch repair (MMR) genes play an important role in the occurrence and development of sporadic colorectal cancer; however, the effect of MMR genes on clinicopathological features and prognosis remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to observe the clinical significance of MMR gene expression in sporadic colorectal cancer. Clinicopathological data and postoperative samples from 404 patients with sporadic colorectal cancer were obtained from the Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University. The immunohistochemistry PV-9000 two-step method was performed to measure the protein expression of human mutL homolog 1 (hMLH1), human mutS homolog (hMSH) 2, human postmeiotic segregation increased 2 (hPSM2) and hMSH6. Differences in clinicopathological features, family history and survival time subsequent to surgery between groups with normal and aberrant MMR protein (MMRP) expression were compared. A total of 27.23% of all patients showed aberrant nuclear staining of MMRP. Among the patients with aberrant MMRP expression, a higher proportion of patients showed aberrant expression of more than one type of MMRP than aberrant expression of only one type of MMRP. Aberrant expression of hMLH1/hPSM2 was most commonly observed (29/404). In addition, aberrant MMRP expression in colorectal cancer was indicated predominantly in the right hemicolon. Histological type primarily showed mucinous adenocarcinoma. In addition, with increasing body mass index (BMI), the MMRP deficiency rate was also shown to increase gradually. There was a close association between MMRP expression deficiency and family history of cancer (P<0.05). For TNM stage III patients, the Kaplan-Meier survival curve showed that the aberrant MMRP expression group had a three-year disease-free survival (DFS) rate of 66.67%, which was longer than the DFS rate of the normal group (55.41%), with no statistical difference (P>0.05). In conclusion, the immunohistochemistry PV-9000 two-step method can be used to measure MMRP expression in colorectal cancer. Aberrant MMRP expression is closely correlated with tumor location, histological type, BMI and tumor family history in sporadic colorectal cancer. Aberrant MMRP expression may have an effect on the prognosis of stage III patients.
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- Zhenqiang Sun
- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, P.R. China ; Research Laboratory of Disease Genomics, Cancer Research Institute, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 4170078, P.R. China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, P.R. China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, P.R. China
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- Department of Pathology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, P.R. China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, P.R. China
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- Infection & Statistical Office, Affiliated Tumor Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, P.R. China
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Nishimiya H, Kosaka Y, Yamashita K, Minatani N, Kikuchi M, Ema A, Nakamura K, Waraya M, Sengoku N, Tanino H, Kuranami M, Watanabe M. Prognostic significance of Ki-67 in chemotherapy-naive breast cancer patients with 10-year follow-up. Anticancer Res 2014; 34:259-268. [PMID: 24403472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND/AIM In order to define accurate survival outcome in breast cancer, 10-year follow-up is required and such long-term survival information are few and difficult to gather. PATIENTS AND METHODS We recruited 253 breast cancer patients who undertook operation with no prior chemotherapy. Ten-year survival outcomes were evaluated by clinicopathological factors. RESULTS Significant univariate prognostic factors were: T factor, N factor, preoperative values of tumor markers, and biological factors. T-factor, CEA, hormone receptor, and Ki-67 were the final independent prognostic factors of recurrence-free survival through multivariate analysis. The Luminal A group except for the Ki-67-positive cases showed the best survival outcomes, while the HER2-positive or triple-negative (TN) groups showed worse prognosis than the Luminal A group, and Ki-67 was shown to be an excellent prognostic factor in each stage (p<0.01). CONCLUSION Ki-67 has a great potential as a prognostic biomarker while prognostic information of this sort could be beneficial for development of novel therapeutic strategies.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism
- Breast Neoplasms/mortality
- Breast Neoplasms/pathology
- Breast Neoplasms/surgery
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/mortality
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/pathology
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/surgery
- Carcinoma, Lobular/mortality
- Carcinoma, Lobular/pathology
- Carcinoma, Lobular/surgery
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Ki-67 Antigen/metabolism
- Lymphatic Metastasis
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Invasiveness
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/mortality
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/pathology
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/surgery
- Neoplasm Staging
- Postoperative Complications
- Prognosis
- Receptor, ErbB-2/metabolism
- Receptors, Estrogen/metabolism
- Receptors, Progesterone/metabolism
- Survival Rate
- Time Factors
- Young Adult
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- Hiroshi Nishimiya
- FACS, Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1, Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Japan.
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