Body mass index can affect gastrointestinal and genitourinary toxicity in patients with prostate cancer treated with external beam radiation therapy.

abstract：:Multiple myeloma is defined as a malignant proliferation of a single clone of plasma cells resulting in monoclonal immunoglobulin production. Due to the number of plasma cell morphological variants, difficulty is often faced during morphological diagnosis. The current study describes the case of a 49-year-old woman pr...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Jiang P,Xia W,Sun X,Dai X,Li L

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to evaluate the methanolic extract of Piper betle leaves (MPBL) and its organic fractions with regard to antitumor activity against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) in Swiss albino mice and to confirm their antioxidant activities. At 24 h post-intraperitoneal inoculation of tumor cells i...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Alam B,Majumder R,Akter S,Lee SH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, thyroid cancer (TC) has become one of the most common endocrine malignancies. Next-generation sequencing of paired TC and adjacent healthy thyroid tissues demonstrated that polycystic kidney and hepatic disease 1-like 1 (PKHD1L1) may serve as a tumour suppressor gene in thyroid cancer. However, the ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zheng C,Quan R,Xia EJ,Bhandari A,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the interrelations between MEG-A3 gene and incidence of breast cancer. The expression of MEG-A3 gene in the tissue samples of patients with breast cancer and normal controls at RNA and protein levels was determined. Subsequently, the relative expression of RNA for the same p...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Hou X,Guo F,Sun Q

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that microRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in tumor progression and development by targeting different genes, including gastric cancer (GC). However, the role of miR-16 in GC is so far unclear. Herein, we examined the function and potential mechanism of miR-16 in GC. Reverse transcriptio...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Jiang X,Wang Z

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of primary carcinoma of the ureteral stump following radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma is extremely rare; 7 patients with the disease have been reported previously. All these patients were males with transitional cell carcinoma. The current study reports the case of a 61-year-old woman, who p...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Jin S,Wang G,Yu C,Li N

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For numerous years, the non-cardiovascular role of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) was underestimated, but recent studies have advanced the understanding of its function in various processes, including carcinogenesis. Numerous evidence comes from preclinical and clinical studies on the use of antihypertensive agent...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Sobczuk P,Szczylik C,Porta C,Czarnecka AM

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silent information regulator 6 (SIRT6) is broadly considered as a tumor suppressor due to its function in the suppression of oncogene expression. However, the role of SIRT6 in colorectal cancer stem cells (CSCs) remains uncharacterized. In the present study, it was demonstrated that SIRT6 expression was reduced in col...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Liu W,Wu M,Du H,Shi X,Zhang T,Li J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human ether-a-go-go-related potassium channel 1 (hERG1) is a component of the voltage-gated Kv11.1 potassium channel, which has been recently indicated to have a crucial role in the tumorigenesis of multiple tumors, including pancreatic carcinoma. Pancreatic carcinoma is one of the most malignant human cancer type...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zhi D,Zhao X,Dong M,Yan C

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of different levels of PM2.5 on invasion and proliferation of HeLa cells and the expression levels of inflammatory cytokines IL-1 and IL-6 under 10 µg/ml PM2.5 were investigated. Different groups of HeLa cells were treated with PM2.5 at 0, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 200 µg/ml for 36 h, respectively. Cell proliferatio...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Huang K,Li W,Chen Y,Zhu J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian carcinoma (OV) is one of the most lethal gynecological malignancies globally, and the overall 5-year survival rate of OV was 47% in 2018 according to American data. To increase the survival rate of patients with OV, many researchers have sought to identify biomarkers that act as both prognosis-predictive marke...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Lin H,Wang J,Wen X,Wen Q,Huang S,Mai Z,Lu L,Liang X,Pan H,Li S,He Y,Ma H

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist ketamine, on the growth of gliomas. To analyze the effects of ketamine treatment, rat C6 glioma cells arising from astrocytes, and RNB cells representing non-malignant astrocytes, were examined. In ketamine-treated C6 cells,...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Niwa H,Furukawa KI,Seya K,Hirota K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA topoisomerase II-α (Topo II-α) is essential for numerous cell processes, including DNA replication, transcription, recombination, and chromosome separation and condensation. Altered Topo II-α expression may lead to carcinogenesis and cancer progression. The aim of the present study was to investigate the associati...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Feng Y,Zhang H,Gao W,Wen S,Huangfu H,Sun R,Bai W,Wang B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the curative effect of fludeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT)-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for 42 patients with International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage III/IV ovarian cancer. Between Jan...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Dang YZ,Li X,Ma YX,Li XL,Yang T,Lu WL,Huang SG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bladder cancer is one of the most common forms of malignancies involving the urinary system and multiple risk factors have been associated with its etiology. The most common of which include cigarette smoking and various occupational or chemical exposures. It is usually diagnosed in older individuals with an average a...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Khan R,Ibrahim H,Tulpule S,Iroka N

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ganoderma lucidum (G. lucidum) mushroom is one of the most extensively studied functional foods, known for its numerous health benefits, including the inhibition of tumor cell growth. The present study assessed the anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic activity of a novel G. lucidum polysaccharide peptide (GL-PP) i...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wang C,Lin D,Chen Q,Lin S,Shi S,Chen C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast tissue is very sensitive to ionizing radiation due to the presence of reproductive hormones, including estrogen. In the present pilot study, the efficiency of mammography X-rays to induce DNA double strand breaks (DSB) in mammary epithelial cells was investigated. For this, freshly resected healthy breast tissu...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Depuydt J,Viaene T,Blondeel P,Roche N,Van den Broecke R,Thierens H,Vral A

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) plasmacytoma variant translocation 1 (PVT1) has been identified as an oncogene in numerous diseases, and aberrant lncRNA PVT1 expression has been associated with the development of cancer. However, the underlying mechanism by which lncRNA PVT1 affects cell invasion in esophageal cancer...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zheng X,Hu H,Li S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LIM domain only protein 2 (LMO2) is a key regulator of hematopoietic stem cell development. Expression of LMO2 has been evaluated in B-cell lymphoma, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia; however, information concerning its role in breakpoint cluster region/Abelson murine leukemia viral o...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Aly RM,Taalab MM,Abdsalam EM,Elyamany OH,Hasan OE

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated androgen deprivation methods to determine the approach that most improves the progression-free survival (PFS) of patients with metastatic prostate cancer. Patients had received continuous maximal androgen blockade (MAB) or monotherapy [luteinizing-hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist or...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Min GE,Ahn H

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) have not yet been elucidated. The aim of the current study was to identify potential pathogenic biomarkers in PTC by comprehensively analyzing gene expression and methylation profiles, and to increase the understanding of PTC pathogenesis....

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wei S,Yun X,Ruan X,Wei X,Zheng X,Gao M

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Preoperative radiotherapy improves local disease control and disease-free survival in patients with advanced rectal cancer; however, a reliable predictive biomarker for the effectiveness of irradiation has yet to be elucidated. Phosphorylation of H2A histone family member X (H2AX) to γ-H2AX is induced by DNA double-st...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Kawashima S,Kawaguchi N,Taniguchi K,Tashiro K,Komura K,Tanaka T,Inomata Y,Imai Y,Tanaka R,Yamamoto M,Inoue Y,Lee SW,Kawai M,Tanaka K,Okuda J,Uchiyama K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to examine whether serum microRNA (miR)-22 may be considered a potential biomarker to differentiate patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) from healthy controls. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction demonstrated that serum miR-22 expression was significantly enhanc...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wang D,Guo C,Kong T,Mi G,Li J,Sun Y

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted therapy of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene has been associated with improved prognosis. However, there is a shortage on data from real-world clinical practice in management of EGFR-positive NSCLC patients in Poland. The present stu...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Ramlau R,Krawczyk P,Dziadziuszko R,Chmielewska I,Milanowski J,Olszewski W,Stencel K,Ramlau-Piątek K,Segiet A,Skroński M,Grudny J,Chorostowska-Wynimko J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infection with Helicobacter pylori may contribute to the carcinogenesis of gastric cancer through modulating local prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) levels. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH) are two key enzymes that regulate PGE2 synthesis and inactivation, respectively. Th...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zhao J,Wen S,Wang X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer has a low survival rate globally. Anillin (ANLN) is involved in the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer (PC). The present study used databases and reverse transcription-quantitative PCR to investigate the association between ANLN expression, clinical variables and the survival rate of patients with pan...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Nie Y,Zhao Z,Chen M,Ma F,Fan Y,Kang Y,Kang B,Wang C

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a common hematological malignancy. Some patients progressing to the blast phase develop chemotherapeutic drug resistance. In the authors' previous study, it was found that the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway was activated in CML and that rapamycin inhibited the prolif...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Li J,Liu W,Hao H,Wang Q,Xue L

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoro-edenite is a natural mineral species initially isolated in Biancavilla, Sicily. The fibres are similar in size and morphology to certain amphibolic asbestos fibres, the inhalation of which may cause chronic inflammation and cancer. Occupational asbestos exposure is known to be associated with pleural and lung d...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Rapisarda V,Ledda C,Ricceri V,Arena F,Musumeci A,Marconi A,Fago L,Bracci M,Santarelli L,Ferrante M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the immunosuppression of cancer cells has attracted much attention in recent years. The present study sought to provide a new strategy for tumor immunotherapy targeting mast cells by studying the mechanisms underlying mast cell function in cancer immunosuppression. Between January 2015 and December 2017, t...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zhao YB,Yang SH,Shen J,Deng K,Li Q,Wang Y,Cui W,Ye H

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00