Renal impairment (RI) is a negative prognostic factor in Multiple Myeloma (MM) and affected patients are often excluded from autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). However, it remains unclear whether his...
Authors: Marlies Antlanger, Tobias Dust, Thomas Reiter, Alexandra Böhm, Wolfgang W. Lamm, Max Gornicec, Ella Willenbacher, David Nachbaur, Roman Weger, Werner Rabitsch, Susanne Rasoul-Rockenschaub, Nina Worel, Daniel Lechner, Hildegard Greinix, Felix Keil, Heinz Gisslinger…
Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) has been shown to be higher in patients treated with external beam radiotherapy (RT) compared to those untreated. However, little is known about the dynamics of patient’s FCR du...
Authors: Y. Yang, J. Cameron, C. Bedi and G. Humphris
Nearly one third of patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) for locally advanced esophageal cancer have a pathologic complete response (pCR) of the primary tumor upon histopathological evaluat...
Authors: A. S. Borggreve, S. Mook, M. Verheij, V. E. M. Mul, J. J. Bergman, A. Bartels-Rutten, L. C. ter Beek, R. G. H. Beets-Tan, R. J. Bennink, M. I. van Berge Henegouwen, L. A. A. Brosens, I. L. Defize, J. M. van Dieren, H. Dijkstra, R. van Hillegersberg, M. C. Hulshof…
Rituximab plus combination chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) is broadly accepted as standard for the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Neve...
Authors: Roland Christian Schelker, Wolfgang Herr, Albrecht Reichle and Martin Vogelhuber
Even though the post-operative outcome varies greatly among patients with nodal positive colon cancer (UICC stage III), personalized prediction of systemic disease recurrence is currently insufficient. We inve...
Authors: Andreas Sperlich, Alexander Balmert, Dietrich Doll, Sabine Bauer, Fabian Franke, Gisela Keller, Dirk Wilhelm, Anna Mur, Michael Respondek, Helmut Friess, Ulrich Nitsche and Klaus-Peter Janssen
Epidemiologists are beginning to employ metabolomics and lipidomics with archived blood from incident cases and controls to discover causes of cancer. Although several such studies have focused on colorectal c...
Authors: Kelsi Perttula, Courtney Schiffman, William M B Edmands, Lauren Petrick, Hasmik Grigoryan, Xiaoming Cai, Marc J Gunter, Alessio Naccarati, Silvia Polidoro, Sandrine Dudoit, Paolo Vineis and Stephen M Rappaport
The tumour microenvironment conferred by mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) plays a key role in tumour development and progression. We previously determined that platelet-activating factor receptor (PAFR) was overe...
Authors: Tong Gao, Yi Yu, Qing Cong, Yisheng Wang, Mingming Sun, Liangqing Yao, Congjian Xu and Wei Jiang
Systemic inflammation has been implicated in cancer development and progression. This study examined the best cutoff value of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patie...
Authors: Shuang Wu, Ye Zhou, Hai-Ying Hua, Yan Zhang, Wen-Yan Zhu, Zhi-Qing Wang, Jin Li, Hua-Qiang Gao, Xiao-Hong Wu, Ting-Xun Lu and Dong Hua
The imbalance between the action of the tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (TIMPs) and the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) is one component of metastasis physiology. TIMP-1 overrides MMP-9 activit...
Authors: Renato F. Ivanovic, Nayara I. Viana, Denis R. Morais, Caio Moura, Iran A. Silva, Katia R. Leite, José Pontes-Junior, William C. Nahas, Miguel Srougi and Sabrina T. Reis
Ceritinib demonstrated a statistically significant effect on the progression-free survival versus chemotherapy in patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement in non-small cell lung ca...
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an exceedingly rare sarcoma often occurring as an indolent angiocentric vascular tumor at various anatomic sites. Few reports have evaluated large case series of epithelioid...
The number of patients requesting autologous breast reconstruction (ABR) after mastectomy for breast cancer has increased over the past decades. However, concern has been expressed about the oncological safety...
Authors: Joachim Geers, Hans Wildiers, Katrien Van Calster, Annouschka Laenen, Giuseppe Floris, Marc Vandevoort, Gerd Fabre, Ines Nevelsteen and Ann Smeets
Sarcomas are rare, heterogeneous tumours affecting patients of any age. Previous surveys describe that sarcoma patients report a significantly worse experience than those with common cancers. Consequently, Sar...
Authors: Eugenie Younger, Olga Husson, Lindsey Bennister, Jeremy Whelan, Roger Wilson, Andy Roast, Robin L Jones and Winette TA van der Graaf
Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) can improve survival, quality of life, nutritional and functional status in cancer patients. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a non-invasive, validated method to assess...
Authors: Paolo Cotogni, Taira Monge, Maurizio Fadda and Antonella De Francesco
DNA methylation (DNAm) age was found to be an indicator for all-cause mortality, cancer incidence, and longevity, but no study has involved in the associations of DNAm age with the prognosis of breast cancer.
Authors: Jun-Ting Ren, Mei-Xia Wang, Yi Su, Lu-Ying Tang and Ze-Fang Ren
Prostate cancer-related morbidity is associated with its preferential spread to the bone. Although the molecular interactions between the bone microenvironment and cancer cells have been researched extensively...
Authors: Haider Mussawy, Lennart Viezens, Malte Schroeder, Svenja Hettenhausen, Jördis Sündermann, Jasmin Wellbrock, Kai Kossow and Christian Schaefer
The prognostic biomarker for patients undergoing curative liver metastasectomy for colorectal cancer (CRC) is lacking. The purpose was to investigate the prognostic role of a lack of CDX2 expression, which has...
Authors: Yasuyuki Shigematsu, Kentaro Inamura, Noriko Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Mise, Akio Saiura, Yuichi Ishikawa, Shunji Takahashi and Hiroaki Kanda
Application of dendritic cells (DC) for cancer immunotherapy involves tumor-associated immunogenic antigens for effective therapeutic strategies. The present study investigated whether DC co-cultured with auto...
Authors: Tao Yang, Wenjun Zhang, Li Wang, Chunyan Xiao, Li Wang, Yi Gong, Dehong Huang, Bingling Guo, Qiying Li, Ying Xiang and Yingyu Nan
The prognosis for pancreatic cancer remains poor despite diagnostic advances and treatments with new chemotherapeutic regimens. The five year survival rate remains below 3%. Consequently, there is an urgent ne...
Authors: Cindy Canivet, Sophie Gourgou-Bourgade, Bertrand Napoléon, Laurent Palazzo, Nicolas Flori, Pierre Guibert, Guillaume Piessen, Dominique Farges-Bancel, Jean-François Seitz, Eric Assenat, Véronique Vendrely, Stéphanie Truant, Geoffroy Vanbiervliet, Philippe Berthelémy, Stéphane Garcia, Anne Gomez-Brouchet…
Indirect evidence suggesting the immunosensitivity/immunogenicity of neuroblastoma is accumulating. The aims of this study were to investigate the immune landscape of neuroblastoma and to evaluate the in vivo ...
Authors: Chiara Camisaschi, Salvatore Lorenzo Renne, Valeria Beretta, Francesca Rini, Rosalin Dolores Spagnuolo, Alessandra Tuccitto, Marta Giorgia Podda, Giorgio Parmiani, Licia Rivoltini, Paola Collini, Chiara Castelli and Roberto Luksch
In ovarian cancer, the role of estrogen receptors (ERs), particularly of ERβ, being suggested as tumor suppressor in breast and prostate cancer, remains unclear. We examined the expression of nuclear and cytop...
Authors: Susanne Schüler-Toprak, Florian Weber, Maciej Skrzypczak, Olaf Ortmann and Oliver Treeck
Erlotinib is a drug used for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and pancreatic cancer. Severe hepatotoxicity was observed in 4% to 31% of patients receiving erlotinib treatment prompting delay...
Authors: Min Kyoung Kim, Jeong Yee, Yoon Sook Cho, Hong Won Jang, Ji Min Han and Hye Sun Gwak
The impact of tumor size on prognosis for surgically treated patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains controversial. A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to evaluate this is...
Authors: Debang Li, Bin Hu, Yanming Zhou, Tao Wan and Xiaoying Si
Sarcomas account for less than 1% of primary breast cancers, and breast angiosarcomas are responsible for only 0.05% of all breast malignancies. The male breast has the same potential for malignant transformat...
Authors: Benedito Borges da Silva, Walberto Monteiro Neiva Eulálio Filho, Pedro Vitor Lopes Costa, Rozirene Araújo Silva, Ariton Mendes Conde Junior, Diego Cipriano Chagas, Mariella de Almeida Melo, Fidelis Manes Neto, Cleciton Braga Tavares, Edilson Carvalho de Sousa Júnior, Eid Gonçalves Coelho, Viriato Campelo, Luis Henrique Gebrim and Raimundo Gerônimo da Silva Junior
Although peripheral blood-based parameters (PBBPs) are reported as prognostic indicators in patients with breast cancers, their utility has not been studied in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-p...
The combination of gemcitabine and docetaxel (GT) has been demonstrated to be effective against various types of solid tumors, including sarcoma. However, the regimen has not been confirmed in large, well-desi...
Fibronectin (FN) is a high-molecular-weight glycoprotein component of the extracellular matrix involved in cell adhesion, migration, metastasis, proliferation and differentiation, as well as embryogenesis, wou...
Authors: Jiefei Xiao, Weilin Yang, Bo Xu, Haoshuai Zhu, Jianyong Zou, Chunhua Su, Jian Rong, Tao Wang and Zhenguang Chen
In our previous study, colorectal cancer (CRC) patients with active Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) tolerated concurrent anti-cancer chemotherapy (anti-CCT) and anti-MTB chemotherapy. In this study, we retrospec...
Adjuvant endocrine therapy undoubtedly prolongs the time to recurrence for patients with hormone-positive early breast cancer. Extended endocrine therapy to 10 years or longer has been expected to bring a grea...
Authors: Li Li, Bingmei Chang, Xiaoyue Jiang, Xueke Fan, Yingrui Li, Teng Li, Shanshan Wu, Jun Zhang, Seyed Kariminia and Qin Li
We developed a novel plasma amino acid profile-based index (API) to detect ovarian, uterine, cervical, and endometrial cancers. In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether abnormal API values could be normaliz...
Authors: Yukio Suzuki, Aya Tokinaga-Uchiyama, Taichi Mizushima, Yasuyo Maruyama, Tae Mogami, Nahoko Shikata, Atsuko Ikeda, Hiroshi Yamamoto and Etsuko Miyagi
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for mucinous cystic neoplasm of the pancreas carries a potential risk of inducing peritoneal tumor cell dissemination. We investigated the diagnost...
Authors: Rei Suzuki, Hiroki Irie, Tadayuki Takagi, Mitsuru Sugimoto, Naoki Konno, Yuki Sato, Ko Watanabe, Jun Nakamura, Shigeru Marubashi, Takuto Hikichi and Hiromasa Ohira
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene alterations and amplification are frequently reported in cases of glioblastoma (GBM). However, EGFR-activating mutations that confer proven sensitivity to tyrosine kin...
Authors: Lea Loriguet, Mony Chenda Morisse, Julie Dremaux, Louison Collet, Christophe Attencourt, Alexandre Coutte, Mathieu Boone, Henri Sevestre, Antoine Galmiche, Brigitte Gubler, Bruno Chauffert and Stephanie Trudel
Conventional chemotherapy is commonly used to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) however it increases therapeutic resistance. In contrast, metronomic chemotherapy (MET) is based on frequent drug administ...
Authors: Rong-Sheng Qin, Zhen-Hua Zhang, Neng-Ping Zhu, Fei Chen, Qian Guo, Hao-Wen Hu, Shao-Zhi Fu, Shan-Shan Liu, Yue Chen, Juan Fan and Yun-Wei Han
Prior small studies have shown increased expression of sperm protein 17 (Sp17) in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) tissue and suggest Sp17 as a potential biomarker for EOC. However, how Sp17 expression varies w...
Authors: Laurie L. Brunette, Paulette Y. Mhawech-Fauceglia, Lingyun Ji, Joseph G. Skeate, Heike E. Brand, Kate Lawrenson, Saloni Walia, Maurizio Chiriva-Internati, Susan Groshen, Lynda D. Roman, W. Martin Kast and Diane M. Da Silva
Lapatinib has clinical efficacy in the treatment of trastuzumab-refractory HER2-positive breast cancer. However, a significant proportion of patients develop progressive disease due to acquired resistance to t...
Authors: Alex J Eustace, Neil T Conlon, Martina S J McDermott, Brigid C Browne, Patrick O’Leary, Frankie A Holmes, Virginia Espina, Lance A Liotta, Joyce O’Shaughnessy, Clair Gallagher, Lorraine O’Driscoll, Sweta Rani, Stephen F Madden, Neil A O’Brien, Charles Ginther, Dennis Slamon…
We report here a correlation analysis conducted along with a phase II trial assessing bevacizumab in combination with weekly paclitaxel.
Authors: Loïc Lebellec, François Bertucci, Emmanuelle Tresch-Bruneel, Isabelle Ray-Coquard, Axel Le Cesne, Emmanuelle Bompas, Jean-Yves Blay, Antoine Italiano, Olivier Mir, Thomas Ryckewaert, Yves Toiron, Luc Camoin, Anthony Goncalves, Nicolas Penel and Marie-Cécile Le Deley
Cancer/testis antigen MAGEC2 (also known as HCA587) is highly expressed in a wide variety of tumors and plays an active role in promoting growth and metastasis of tumor cells. However, little is known for the ...
Authors: Xiao Song, Chengli Guo, Yutian Zheng, Ying Wang, Zhongtian Jin and Yanhui Yin
Decrease in bone mineral density, osteoporosis development, bone toxicity and resulting insufficiency fractures as late effect of radiotherapy are not well known. Osteoporosis development related to radiothera...
The current TNM staging system is far from perfect in predicting the survival of individual non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. In this study, we aim to combine clinical variables and molecular biomar...
Authors: Lei Liu, Minxin Shi, Zhiwei Wang, Haimin Lu, Chang Li, Yu Tao, Xiaoyan Chen and Jun Zhao
Gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), intro-abdominal and retroperitoneal neoplasms are distinct tumors arising from different cell layers; therefore, coexistence of such tumors is relatively rare.
Authors: Yong Zhou, Xu-Dong Wu, Quan Shi, Chuan-hai Xu and Jing Jia
The prognostic role of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been proposed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). However, it is currently unclear which cutoff values of NLR could consistently an...
Authors: Jae-Keun Cho, Myoung Woo Kim, Ick Soo Choi, Uk Yeol Moon, Min-Ji Kim, Insuk Sohn, Seonwoo Kim and Han-Sin Jeong
The cellular effects of androgen are transduced through the androgen receptor, which controls the expression of genes that regulate biosynthetic processes, cell growth, and metabolism. Androgen signaling also ...
Authors: Kasey Jividen, Katarzyna Z Kedzierska, Chun-Song Yang, Karol Szlachta, Aakrosh Ratan and Bryce M Paschal
The use of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for early-stage primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) reported excellent local control rates. But the optimal SBRT dose for oligometastatic lung tumors (OL...
Authors: Xin Wang, Leonid Zamdborg, Hong Ye, Inga S. Grills and Di Yan
Gastrointestinal symptoms occur in approximately 50% of patients with systemic lupus erythematous with low specificity. Although it is well established that colon cancer is one of the many gastrointestinal man...
Chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis impairs the quality of life. The difference in severity of oral mucositis between different anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibodies combined with cytotoxic d...
The prognosis of patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutant adenocarcinoma of the lung (Mt) and EGFR wild-type adenocarcinoma (Wt) after complete resection of the lung differ; however, the mecha...
Paclitaxel induced peripheral neuropathy (PIPN) is a major debilitating side effect of paclitaxel in patients with breast cancer with no fully known mechanisms. The aim of the study was to find out the possibl...
Authors: Zohreh Ghoreishi, Seyedali Keshavarz, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Zahra Fathifar, Karyn A Goodman and Ali Esfahani
Oligometastases refer to a state of disease where cancer has spread beyond the primary site, but is not yet widely metastatic, often defined as 1–3 or 1–5 metastases in number. Stereotactic ablative radiothera...
Authors: Robert Olson, Mitchell Liu, Alanah Bergman, Sonya Lam, Fred Hsu, Benjamin Mou, Tanya Berrang, Ante Mestrovic, Nick Chng, Derek Hyde, Quinn Matthews, Chad Lund, Daniel Glick, Howard Pai, Parminder Basran, Hannah Carolan…
In the last decade, several tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), which disrupt pathways involved in the proliferation and tumorigenesis of thyroid cancer, have been extensively studied. Two different TKIs, lenva...
Authors: Soo Young Kim, Seok-Mo Kim, Ho-Jin Chang, Bup-Woo Kim, Yong Sang Lee, Cheong Soo Park, Ki Cheong Park and Hang-Seok Chang
The transcribed ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs) are a novel class of non-coding RNAs that are absolutely conserved across species and are involved in carcinogenesis in some cancers. However, the expression and...
Authors: Yohei Sekino, Naoya Sakamoto, Keisuke Goto, Ririno Honma, Yoshinori Shigematsu, Thang Pham Quoc, Kazuhiro Sentani, Naohide Oue, Jun Teishima, Fumi Kawakami, Jose A Karam, Kanishka Sircar, Akio Matsubara and Wataru Yasui
