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Slim A, Kamoun H, Hadidene Y, Smadhi H, Meddeb A, Megdiche ML. Postoperative recurrence of primary lung cancer: anatomo-clinical and therapeutic study. Tunis Med 2022; 99:560-568. [PMID: 35244906 PMCID: PMC8772599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Even after radical resection, the rate of recurrence of non-small cell lung cancer remains high. AIM To identify the profile of patients operated for lung cancer and to study the prognostic factors of tumor recurrence. METHODS We performed a retrospective study including 67 cases of lung cancer with curative surgery, hospitalized between 2010 and 2016. RESULTS The mean age was 61 years. The sex ratio was 21. The average time to diagnosis was 22 days. The average time to start treatment was 10 days. The most common histological type was adenocarcinoma (63%). Lobectomy was performed in 63% of the patients. Tumor recurrence was noted in 40% of the patients. The average time between recurrence and the surgical treatment was 12 months. The most common location of recurrence was the lung (70%). Recurrence was more common among adenocarcinoma and smokers older than 60 years. The majority of locally advanced and metastatic cancers have recurred. The average survival was 56 ± 4months. Better survival rates were observed in young patients, with less than 25 pack-years of early-stage, no lymph node involvement, and patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy. The probability of survival was 5 years for all tumor stages. CONCLUSION The prognostic factors for recurrence after radical resection for lung cancer were: the age of patients, smoking history, histological type, tumor stage, and surgical procedure.
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Yang L, Wang YQ, Huang X, Yang ZM. [Quercetin for the treatment of prostate cancer: Progress in studies]. Zhonghua Nan Ke Xue 2021; 27:654-658. [PMID: 34914236] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Prostate cancer (PCa) is a common urinary malignancy, and advanced PCa has a poor prognosis and a high mortality. Drug therapies currently available for this malignancy often cause serious adverse reactions, and therefore new drugs with fewer adverse effects or the potential to reduce the adverse effects of traditional chemotherapeutic drugs are badly needed for the management of PCa. Quercetin, as a natural flavonoid, has been extensively studied in recent years for its anti-cancer effects, as in cell signal transduction, apoptosis promotion, anti-proliferation and -oxidation, and growth inhibition. In fact, quercetin has a variety of biological effects and can inhibit various enzymes involved in cell proliferation and signal transduction pathways. Besides, quercetin is also reported to have potential synergistic effects when used in combination with radiotherapy or chemotherapeutic drugs. This review summarizes the advances in the treatment of PCa with quercetin, focusing on its effects of promoting the apoptosis, inhibiting the proliferation and reducing the invasiveness and migration of tumor cells, and reversing drug resistance, aiming to provide a new theoretical basis and some new ideas for the studies of the treatment of PCa.
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- Longyuhe Yang
- Department of Urology, Honghe First People's Hospital, Honghe, Yunnan 661100, China
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- Department of Urology, Honghe First People's Hospital, Honghe, Yunnan 661100, China
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- Department of Urology, Honghe First People's Hospital, Honghe, Yunnan 661100, China
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- Department of Urology, Honghe First People's Hospital, Honghe, Yunnan 661100, China
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Zhang F, Wu CF, Luo YH, Zhou FH. [Relationship between long non-coding RNA MALAT1 and prostate cancer]. Zhonghua Nan Ke Xue 2020; 26:174-179. [PMID: 33346423] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Prostate cancer (PCa), as a malignant tumor originating in the prostate glandular epithelium, has become a global "killer" that threatens the health of elderly men. PCa-related studies have been focusing on the progression mechanisms and treatment strategies of the malignancy, particularly on the role of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) in recent years. The lncRNA metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) plays a key role in the progression and treatment of PCa, as well as in its metastasis and invasion and cell proliferation. lncRNA MALAT1 not only influences the biological characteristics of PCa, but also has a regulatory effect on the medicinal treatment of the disease, its action mechanisms involving ceRNA and AR signaling pathways. This review focuses on the relationship between lncRNA MALAT1 and PCa, aiming to provide a new research direction for the diagnosis and treatment of the malignancy.
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- Fa Zhang
- Department of Urology, Lanzhou University First Hospital / The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
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- Department of Urology, Lanzhou University First Hospital / The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
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- Department of Urology, Lanzhou University First Hospital / The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
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- Department of Urology, Lanzhou University First Hospital / The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
- Department of Urology, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
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Wolak P, Wincewicz A, Czauderna P, Spałek M, Kruczak A, Urbaniak-Wąsik S, Ryś J, Michalak E, Woltanowska M, Sulkowski S. Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor (clear cell sarcoma-like tumor of the gastrointestinal tract) of the small intestine in a 12-year-old boy. Dev Period Med 2018; 22:358-363. [PMID: 30636233] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The aim of this paper is a clinical and anatomopathological demonstration of a malignant lesion, a gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor (GNET), as an exceedingly rare cause of ileus in the pediatric population. Specifically, we present the case of a 12-year-old boy who showed dramatic weight loss, hypochromic anemia, fever, dehydration, exaggerated granulation of the terminal ileum, and mechanical ileus due to the obstruction by an intramural tumor of the small intestine. A 50cm-long part of the small intestine with pathological stricture was surgically removed, sampled and routinely fixed and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The additional immunostains that were preformed were: PAS, S-100, HMB-45, NSE, LCA, CK AE1 / AE3, desmin, SMA, vimentin, CD99, NSE, synaptophysin, WT-1, calretinin, and DOG-1. Moreover, fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) with the EWSR1 Break Apart FISH Probe was applied. The neoplasm was composed of nests and alveolar patterns of frankly malignant clear cells with immunoreactivity to S-100, vimentin, and CD 99. The FISH technique detected chromosomal breaking at 22q12. The tumor metastasized to both the mesenteric lymph nodes and a number of hepatic segments. With several chemotherapy protocols, repeat laparotomies, and liver thermal ablations, the patient had a 1.5-year-long survival from the moment of diagnosis. The diagnosis of this malignancy requires both histopathological evaluation and molecular analysis, and the follow-up is based on careful clinical imaging of the neoplastic spread in order to apply proper surgical and oncological treatments. In conclusion, the clinical course of GNET was highly aggressive.
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- Przemysław Wolak
- Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric and Social Nursing, Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Urology and Traumatology, Voivodeship Specialist Hospital, Kielce, Poland
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- Non-Public Health Care Unit, Department of Pathology, Kielce, Poland
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- Department of Surgery and Urology for Children and Adolescents, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland, Department of Clinical Imaging, Holy Cross Center of Oncology, Kielce, Poland
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- Department of Tumor Pathology, Center of Oncology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Institute, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Tumor Pathology, Center of Oncology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Institute, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Pathomorphology, National Research Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of General Pathomorphology, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland
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Kononenko M, Vynnychenko I, Moskalenko Y, Vynnychenko O. 12 years of fighting liposarcoma: a case report. Wiad Lek 2017; 70:995-997. [PMID: 29203756] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The proportion of liposarcoma in the structure of cancer incidence is from 10 to 35% of all mesenchymal tumors. This clinical observation describes an 12-year struggle with myxoid liposarcoma of the left upper arm, during which 17 surgeries were performed due to local recurrences, 17 radiation therapy courses and 5 chemotherapy courses were conducted. Clinical observation shows the whole complexity of myxoid liposarcoma treatment. The effectiveness of therapeutic management is determined by persistent surgery, and also by the lack of expression of Pgp, glutathione-S-transferase, metallothionein and mutant p53 in tumor structure.
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- Mykola Kononenko
- Department Of Surgery And Oncology, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
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- Department Of Surgery And Oncology, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
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- Department Of Surgery And Oncology, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
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Bobiński M, Kraczkowski JJ, Witt E, Wertel I, Polak G, Kotarski J, Bednarek W. Management of uterine leiomyosarcoma. Wiad Lek 2016; 69:799-803. [PMID: 28214818] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The low incidence of uterine sarcomas requires many issues associated with its biology and clinical course to be followed with more research. Unsatisfactory surgical outcomes and a high risk of cancer dissemination make it worthwhile to consider the feasibility of supplementary systemic treatment. The currently employed chemo- and hormonal therapy is characterised by low efficacy. There is some hope in reports on targeted treatment. However, a comprehensive assessment of the efficacy of this kind of therapy is restricted by a small number of patients using it. Moreover, clinical studies using targeted therapies involve patients with a highly advanced disease, and the therapeutic results are assessed mainly via analysis of progression-free survival but not the clinical response.
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- Marcin Bobiński
- Katedra i Klinika Ginekologii Onkologicznej i Ginekologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny, Lublin, Polska
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- Frauenklinik, Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt Bochum, Niemcy
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- Katedra i Klinika Ginekologii Onkologicznej i Ginekologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny, Lublin, Polska
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- Katedra i Klinika Ginekologii Onkologicznej i Ginekologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny, Lublin, Polska
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- Katedra i Klinika Ginekologii Onkologicznej i Ginekologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny, Lublin, Polska
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- Katedra i Klinika Ginekologii Onkologicznej i Ginekologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny, Lublin, Polska
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