Molecular alterations in the carcinogenesis and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma: Tumor factors and background liver factors.

abstract：:Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers, which is the leading cause of cancer-related death among various cancers worldwide. Flavokawain A (FKA), a chalcone found in the kava plant, exerts potent anticancer activity. However, the activity and mechanisms of FKA in inhibiting the viability of paclitaxel (PTX)-resi...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Li J,Zheng L,Yan M,Wu J,Liu Y,Tian X,Jiang W,Zhang L,Wang R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer occurs in patients with ovarian cancer treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy, which results in tumor progression during treatment, or recurrence of the tumor within 6 months of the treatment. It is vital that a novel biomarker for diagnosis, or an efficient therapeutic target of ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Li Q,Zhang J,Zhou J,Yang B,Liu P,Cao L,Jing L,Liu H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current report presents the case of a 43-year-old male suffering from a penile cutaneous horn. A surgical excision of the lesion was performed and histopathology demonstrated hyperkeratosis, dyskeratosis and epithelial hyperplasia. The cutaneous horn progressed to squamous cell carcinoma <1.5 months following surg...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zhou Y,Tang Y,Tang J,Xia B,Dai Y

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) govern gene expression by competitively binding to microRNA response elements (MREs). Although they were initially considered as transcriptional noise, lncRNAs have attracted increased attention in oncology. Dysregulation of lncRNAs occurs in various types of human tumor, including esoph...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Yu Y,Chen X,Cang S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have emerged as one of the most promising therapeutic options for patients with advanced cancer. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prognostic value of somatic mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes in metastatic cancers after ICI treatment, as well as their assoc...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Liu Y,Chen L,Zhang S,Shu Y,Qi Q,Zhu M,Peng Y,Ling Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elbow is an uncommon site for malignant bone tumors. Surgical options for the reconstruction of the elbow joint are limited and technically challenging. In this study, we describe a patient with osteosarcoma of the proximal ulna treated by wide resection and reconstruction with a combined use of free vascularised ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Ogose A,Hotta T,Shibata M,Kawashima H,Endo N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-steroidal nuclear receptors play a major role in breast cancer development. A correlation among, and possible prognostic function of, the members of the nuclear receptor superfamily has been discussed controversially over the years. Hence, we conducted a quantification of the different expression levels of the thy...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Ditsch N,Mayr D,Lenhard M,Strauss C,Vodermaier A,Gallwas J,Stoeckl D,Graeser M,Weissenbacher T,Friese K,Jeschke U

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seven-amino acid truncated (7ND) protein is an N-terminal deletion mutant of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and it functions as a dominant-negative inhibitor. 7ND and wild-type MCP-1 form a heterodimer, which binds to MCP-1 receptors and inhibits monocyte chemotaxis. In the present study, the 7ND prote...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Luo S,Zhou C,Zhang J,Chen M,Li H,Zheng S,Quan J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the expression level of microRNA-182 (miRNA-182) in human osteosarcoma (OS) MG-63 cells and OS tissues, and to elucidate the effect of miRNA-182 on the biological activity of tumors. In the present study, the expression of miRNA-182 in human OS MG-63 cells, OS tissues and n...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Bian DL,Wang XM,Huang K,Zhai QX,Yu GB,Wu CH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression level of miR-181c in neuroblastoma children and its effect on proliferation of neuroblastoma M17 cells were investigated. Fifty-seven neuroblastoma patients admitted to Weifang People's Hospital from January 2013 to December 2017 were selected and their cancer tissues and normal adjacent tissues were obtain...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Xu X,Wu J,Ren G,Hu Q

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of potential tumor markers may improve chemotherapeutic efficacy. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) expression in local tumor tissues is associated with cancer progression and poor prognosis in variety of cancer types. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role and potential application of IL-6 in determini...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zhao ZF,Li JX,Ye R,Wu X,Gao LL,Niu BL

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-associated mortality in females worldwide and evidence suggests that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection may be implicated in the progress of breast cancer. HCMV glycoprotein B (gB) is the most abundant envelope protein and serves an important role in host cell entry. The ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Yang R,Liang J,Xu GX,Ding LM,Huang HM,Su QZ,Yan J,Li YC

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor that binds to the inducer of short transcripts of the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (FBI-1) represents as a crucial gene regulator in colorectal cancer; however, the correlation between FBI-1 and preoperative radiotherapy (RT) in rectal cancer (RC) has not yet been reported. The aim was to detect FBI-1 express...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wang CJ,Chao CR,Liu HM,Zhu YY,Adell G,Jarlsfelt I,Zhang H,Sun XF

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) promotes invasive and migratory activities by upregulating Forkhead box protein M1 (FoxM1) expression. The present study investigated whether modulation of MnSOD and FoxM1 expression was responsible for the antitumor effects of genistein on cancer stem-like cells (CSLCs) derived ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Fu Z,Cao X,Liu L,Cao X,Cui Y,Li X,Quan M,Ren K,Chen A,Xu C,Qiu Y,Chen X,Wang Z,Cao J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapy based on the tumor microenvironment is a feasible method for treating cancer; therefore, it is necessary to investigate the immune microenvironment of pancreatic cancer and the influencing factors of the immune microenvironment. Chemokines are an important factor affecting the tumor immune microenvironme...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wu B,Wang J,Wang X,Zhu M,Chen F,Shen Y,Zhong Z

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bladder cancer (BC) is one of the most common urogenital malignancies. However, present studies of its multiple gene interaction and cellular pathways remain unable to accurately verify the genesis and the development of BC. The aim of the present study was to investigate the genetic signatures of BC and identify its ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Yan M,Jing X,Liu Y,Cui X

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal and cancerous cells are suggested to have differential utilization of fatty acids and ketone bodies, which could be exploited in cancer therapy. The present study examined the effect of 3-hydroxybutyric acid (3-HBA), which is a ketone body generating acetyl-CoA, and lauric acid (LAA, C12:0), which is a medium-c...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Kadochi Y,Mori S,Fujiwara-Tani R,Luo Y,Nishiguchi Y,Kishi S,Fujii K,Ohmori H,Kuniyasu H

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding (lnc)RNA heart and neural crest derivatives expressed 2-antisense RNA 1 (HAND2-AS1), an lncRNA antisense transcript adjacent to the heart and neural crest derivatives expressed 2 protein (HAND2), inhibits the development of several types of cancer; however, its role in melanoma is currently unknown. In...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Liu P,Du R,Yu X

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we analyzed the supra-additive effect of oxaliplatin in combination with gemcitabine on terminal colorectal cancer and its influence on high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) expression. A total of 86 patients with terminal colorectal cancer were enrolled in this study. Patients received oxaliplatin i...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wen S,Du X,Gou Y,Jiang L

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) is a DNA-damage-recognition gene active at the early stage of DNA repair. XPC also participates in regulation of cell-cycle checkpoint and DNA-damage-induced apoptosis. In the present study, the expression levels of genes involved in nucleotide excision repair (NER) were assessed in...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zhang Y,Cao J,Meng Y,Qu C,Shen F,Xu L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to measure the expression of WNT1 in ameloblastoma (AB). Immunohistochemistry was used to observe changes in WNT1 expression in 80 AB samples, 10 keratocystic odontogenic tumor (KCOT) samples and 10 normal oral mucosa (NOM) samples. Western blotting and reverse transcription-quantitative polyme...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wang GN,Zhong M,Chen Y,Ji J,Gao XQ,Wang TF

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate the association between excision repair cross-complementation group 1 (ERCC1) expression and clinical resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy or clinical characteristics, including survival time, in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). ERCC1 expression was determined ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Du P,Wang Y,Chen L,Gan Y,Wu Q

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V-domain immunoglobulin suppressor of T cell activation (VISTA) is a novel negative immune checkpoint that belongs to the B7 family. VISTA is primarily expressed on hematopoietic cells and inhibits T cell proliferation and cytokine production. The blockade of VISTA has demonstrated promising results in certain murine ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Liao H,Zhu H,Liu S,Wang H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the expression of special AT-rich sequence-binding protein 1 (SATB1) and toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) protein in breast cancer and its clinical significance. We collected breast cancer tissues from 120 patients and adjacent non-cancerous tissue from 53 patients. SATB1 was expressed in 89 cases o...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wang X,Yu X,Wang Q,Lu Y,Chen H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process has increasingly been examined due to its role in the progression of human tumors. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is one of the most common urological tumors that results in patient mortality. Previous studies have demonstrated that the EMT process is closely associated ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zhou N,Lu F,Liu C,Xu K,Huang J,Yu D,Bi L

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is the most fatal gynecological cancer, with a 5-year survival rate of only 30%. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), which possesses growth factor-like functions, is a major regulatory factor in the peritoneal metastasis of ovarian cancer. LPA stimulates the expression of numerous genes that are associated wit...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wang H,Liu W,Wei D,Hu K,Wu X,Yao Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanomas affect the foot and ankle region and are associated with a poor prognosis. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the functional and oncological outcomes of salvage surgery using cutaneous flaps for soft tissue reconstruction of the foot and ankle following the extended resection of a melanoma. A retro...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Liu JF,Zhao LR,Lu LJ,Chen L,Liu ZG,Gong X,Liu B

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While erlotinib is primarily administered to patients with non-small cell lung cancer with sensitizing epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, it is also prescribed to patients with wild type (wt) EGFR in higher lines of treatment. However, there is no predictive marker for erlotinib efficacy in patients wi...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Svaton M,Fiala O,Krakorova G,Blazek J,Hurdalkova K,Barinova M,Mukensnabl P,Pesek M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can result from hepatitis B or C infection, fibrosis or cirrhosis. Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is one of the main growth factors associated with fibrosis or cirrhosis progression in the liver, but its role is controversial in hepatocarcinogenesis. In the present study, the effec...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Kim JB,Lee S,Kim HR,Park SY,Lee M,Yoon JH,Kim YJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer affects multiple organs in the body Malignant melanoma involves the invasion of skin and occasionally mucosal membrane or eye choroidal tissues. The incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma is on the increase worldwide and is a major concern in current research. The increase is associated with UV irradiation-i...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zhang XY,Zhang PY

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00