Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma: two rare cases and a brief review of the literature.

abstract：:The chemokine receptor 4/chemokine ligand 12 (CXCR4/CXCL12) axis plays an important role in tumorigenesis, metastasis, and recurrence of tumors. Its single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with patient survival in several types of cancer. However, the prognostic value of SNPs in nasopharyngeal carcinoma ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Chen R,Xu Y,Du X,Liu N,Li Y,He Q,Tang L,Mao Y,Sun Y,Chen L,Ma J

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Malignant chest wall tumors are rare neoplasms. Resection with wide-free margins is an important prognostic factor, and massive chest wall resection and reconstruction are often necessary. A recent case series of 20 consecutive patients is reported in order to find any possible correlation between tumor histo...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Foroulis CN,Kleontas AD,Tagarakis G,Nana C,Alexiou I,Grosomanidis V,Tossios P,Papadaki E,Kioumis I,Baka S,Zarogoulidis P,Anastasiadis K

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4 have been investigated and are thought to play an important role in tumor evasion. This study aimed to investigate expression patterns of immune-related molecules, and their clinical impacts in malignant salivary gland tumors. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We performed immunohistochemical stain...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Chang H,Kim JS,Choi YJ,Cho JG,Woo JS,Kim A,Kim JS,Kang EJ

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:To elucidate the mechanism responsible for developing acute kidney injury in patients with diabetes mellitus, we also evaluated the issue of whether advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) influence the expressions of multi antimicrobial extrusion protein (MATE1/SLC47A1) in tubular cells. MATERIALS AND ME...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Mizuno T,Sato W,Ishikawa K,Terao Y,Takahashi K,Noda Y,Yuzawa Y,Nagamatsu T

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decades, a better understanding of breast cancer heterogeneity provided tools for a biologically based personalization of anticancer treatments. In particular, the overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) by tumor cells provided a specific target in these HER2-positive tumors...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Kourie HR,El Rassy E,Clatot F,de Azambuja E,Lambertini M

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to investigate the patterns of failure (locoregional and distant metastasis), associated factors, and treatment outcomes in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) combined with chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:From April 2006 to December 2011, ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Maklad AM,Bayoumi Y,Senosy Hassan MA,Elawadi AA,AlHussain H,Elyamany A,Aldhahri SF,Al-Qahtani KH,AlQahtani M,Tunio MA

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human testis development-related gene 1 (TDRG1) is a recently identified gene that is expressed exclusively in the testes and promotes the development of testicular germ cell tumors. In this study, the role of TDRG1 in the development of testicular seminoma, which is the most common testicular germ cell tumor, was fur...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Wang Y,Gan Y,Tan Z,Zhou J,Kitazawa R,Jiang X,Tang Y,Yang J

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Exosomes are nano-sized biological vesicles released by many kinds of cells, which play an important role in tumor metastasis through transporting cytokines, RNAs and proteins. However, the molecular mechanisms of exosomes in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) metastasis are not completely understood. Materials...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Qu Z,Feng J,Pan H,Jiang Y,Duan Y,Fa Z

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma (CXPA), a very rare malignancy found mostly in the major salivary glands, has no established standardized treatment. Case presentation: This report describes a 67-year-old male with advanced CXPA who was effectively treated by anlotinib. Pleomorphic adenoma of the submandib...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Song S,Sui P,Li M,Zhang L,Sun D

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognostic and predictive significance of the high-level microsatellite instability (MSI-H) phenotype in various malignancies is unclear. We describe the characteristics, clinical course, and outcomes of patients with MSI-H malignancies treated in a real-life hospital setting. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A ret...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Halpern N,Goldberg Y,Kadouri L,Duvdevani M,Hamburger T,Peretz T,Hubert A

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis plays an essential role in the development of most solid tumors by delivering nutrients and oxygen to the tumor. Therefore, anti-angiogenic therapy, particularly anti-VEGF and anti-VEGF receptor (VEGFR) therapy, has been a popular strategy to treat cancer. However, anti-angiogenic therapy does not signifi...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Tian W,Cao C,Shu L,Wu F

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Liposarcoma (LPS) is the most common type of soft-tissue sarcoma. Complete surgical resection is the only curative means for localized disease; however, both radiation and conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy remain controversial for metastatic or unresectable disease. An increasing number of trials with novel targeted...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Guan Z,Yu X,Wang H,Wang H,Zhang J,Li G,Cao J,Teng L

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion of echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) was identified as a transforming gene for lung cancer in 2007. This genetic rearrangement accounts for 2%-5% of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases, occurring predominantly in younger individuals with adenocarcino...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Iwama E,Okamoto I,Harada T,Takayama K,Nakanishi Y

更新日期：2014-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background and aim:Standard chemotherapy has limited clinical efficacy in patients with esophageal cancer and there is a significant and unmet clinical need for effective treatment options for these patients. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical efficacy of the novel, targeted drug apatinib combined with d...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Li J,Jia Y,Gao Y,Chang Z,Han H,Yan J,Qin Y

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two types of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations in exon 19 and exon 21 (ex19del and L858R) are prevalent in lung cancer patients and sensitive to targeted EGFR inhibition. A resistance mutation in exon 20 (T790M) has been found to accompany drug treatment when patients relapse. These three mut...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Xu Q,Zhu Y,Bai Y,Wei X,Zheng X,Mao M,Zheng G

更新日期：2015-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The proportion of central pulmonary adenocarcinoma (ADC) in central-type lung cancer has been gradually increasing due to the overall increasing incidence of pulmonary ADC. But the clinical and radiological characteristics of central ADCs remain unclear. In this study, we compared the clinical and radiological ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Wang Z,Li M,Huang Y,Ma L,Zhu H,Kong L,Yu J

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:X-Ray Repair Cross Complementing 1 (XRCC1) functioning in the base excision repair pathway plays an important role in the repair of DNA single-strand breaks caused by ionizing radiation. The relationship between XRCC1 polymorphisms and the risk of radiation-induced side effects on normal tissues remains controv...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Zhao J,Zhi Z,Zhang M,Li Q,Li J,Wang X,Ma C

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Orbital metastasis as the initial presentation of lung adenocarcinoma is very rare, and so the lack of knowledge about this phenomenon can easily result in misdiagnosis, either as a orbital primary tumor or benign lesion. Here, we report a rare case in which the orbital symptom appeared first without any pulmonary man...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Sun L,Qi Y,Sun X,Yu J,Meng X

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and aims: HOXD antisense growth-associated long noncoding RNA (HOXD-AS1) was reported to be upregulated in various cancers, such as gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, colorectal cancer, and glioma. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis and The Cancer Genome Atlas data review to investigate the clinicopa...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Zhang F,Chen X,Xi K,Qiu Z,Wang Y,Gui Y,Hou Y,Chen K,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a varied group of diseases leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Therapy of MDS has been difficult, with supportive cares used to ameliorate symptoms, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation the only curative option. Agents, such as the cytidine analog azacitidine, exe...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： McCormack SE,Warlick ED

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite advances in the early diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, these cancers are often being detected rather late in their course. Emerging published data on the accuracy of dickkopf-1 (DKK1) for diagnosing GI cancers are inconsistent. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Liang B,Zhong L,He Q,Wang S,Pan Z,Wang T,Zhao Y

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study investigated the effect of hyaluronic acid (HA)-CD44st on the invasive ability of human breast cancer MCF-7 cells and the correlation between the expression of CD44st and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2) in postoperative breast cancer patients. Materials and methods:MCF-7 cells tr...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Ying Zhi L,Xu Z,Ning L,Jia Jin L,Hai Cui Y,Hong HG,Fang XJ

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors have shown a robust tumor response in the treatment of various cancers. Pembrolizumab is an anti-PD-1 checkpoint antibody approved for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic melanoma in more than 40 countries. Although autoimmune pneumonitis is considered a common immune-relat...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： He W,Zhang X,Li W,Kong C,Wang Y,Zhu L,Xu R,Deng G,Zhang P

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bladder cancer (BC) is a common urinary system tumor with high aggressiveness, and it results in relatively high mortality due to a lack of precise and suitable biomarkers. In this study, we applied the weighted gene coexpression network analysis method to miRNA expression data from BC patients, and screened for netwo...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Zhao F,Ge YZ,Zhou LH,Xu LW,Xu Z,Ping WW,Wang M,Zhou CC,Wu R,Jia RP

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Randomized trials showing a clear survival benefit of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) over 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) in the treatment of lung cancer are lacking. This study compared the survival rates of patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer who were treated with either ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Kong M,Hong SE

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple drug resistance is still an unsolved problem in cancer therapy. Our previous study demonstrated that the chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin (Dox) induced upregulation of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in endothelial cells, resulting in a 20-fold increase in drug resistance and reduced efficiency of Dox treatment in a m...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Huang L,Hu C,Di Benedetto M,Varin R,Liu J,Wang L,Vannier JP,Jin J,Janin A,Lu H,Li H

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Chemotherapy remains a major clinical option for the successful treatment of cancer by eliminating fast-growing populations of cancer cells. However, drug resistance causes the failure of antitumor treatment. Increasing evidence suggests that a small subpopulation of cancer cells will enter a "persister stat...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Wang L,Yang Q,Peng S,Liu X

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Multiple myeloma (MM) remains an incurable disease, and patient survival requires a better understanding of this malignancy's molecular aspects. Heparanase (HPSE) is highly expressed in aggressive MM cells and related to tumor growth, metastasis, and bortezomib (BTZ) resistance. Thus, targeting HPSE seems ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Rodrigues-Junior DM,Pelarin MFA,Nader HB,Vettore AL,Pinhal MAS

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We validated the use of expression sequence tags (ESTs) as an effective method of screening for DNA segments that could predict urothelial cell carcinoma and for identifying ESTs with such predictive value. PATIENTS AND METHODS:From 2004 to 2009, eleven patients were enrolled in this study: six with high-grade...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Yang PS,Hsu YC,Lin YH,Hou CP,Chen CL,Chang PL,Juang HH,Tsui KH

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma is closely associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. However, the prognostic value of EBV-DNA in extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma remains unclear. Thus, we conducted a meta-analysis to estimate its prognostic significance. PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science were used to search for ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Fei Q,Tian XK,Wu J,Zhu HM,Wang Y,Peng FY,Zhang WJ,Yin L,He X

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00