A new perspective of vasculogenic mimicry: EMT and cancer stem cells (Review).

abstract：:In the present study, the anti-tumor effects of combination treatment with an siRNA targeting B-Raf proto-oncogene serine/threonine kinase (BRAF)V600E and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway inhibitors was investigated in melanoma cell lines harboring BRAFV600E. Human melanoma A375 and WM115 cells were ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： He H,Nan X,Liu S,Zhang L,Yang Z,Wu Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic epithelioid angiomyolipoma (EAML) is a rare type of hepatic tumor. Due to a lack of adequate understanding about this tumor, hepatic EAML is often misdiagnosed as other diseases with similar clinical characteristics such as hepatic cancer. In the present study, 3 cases of hepatic EAML are reported, and the mai...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Liu W,Meng Z,Liu H,Li W,Wu Q,Zhang X,E C

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the effects of compound Radix Sophorae Flavescentis on the proliferation of esophageal carcinoma TE-8 cells and to elucidate the mechanisms involved. For this purpose, we incubated TE-8 cells in medium containing various concentrations (0, 0.0125, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.8...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Yang X,Cai W,Yang Q,Lu Z,Li J,Yu J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary Ewing's sarcoma (ES) is rare, especially when it occurs in the spinal canal during middle or old age. The rarity of Ewing's sarcoma breakpoint region 1 fusion-negative ES has been reported in the literature. The present case report describes a 60-year-old Chinese patient who was diagnosed with ES originating f...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Yan D,Zhang J,Zhong D

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keloids are a type of benign hyperplasia that cause dermatologic dysfunction and esthetic deformity by invading adjacent normal tissues. Little is known about their etiology, therefore, they are a challenge to treat using plastic surgery. In a previous study, it was demonstrated that the expression of the long non-cod...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Li Y,Liang X,Wang P,Long X,Wang X,Meng Z

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin, a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein family, is a potential prognostic marker and molecular target for anticancer therapies. Chromosomal regional maintenance protein-1 (CRM-1) mediates the nuclear export of proteins such as survivin. The aims of the present study were to compare the expression and ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Shintani M,Tashiro A,Sangawa A,Yamao N,Kamoshida S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to obtain comprehensive microRNA (miRNA) profiles of type I [Ishikawa (ISK)] and type II (HEC-1B) human endometrial adenocarcinoma cell lines, utilizing the latest high-throughput sequencing techniques. RNA was extracted from ISK and HEC-1B cell lines. Sequencing results were obtained ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Lu J,Zhang X,Zhang R,Ge Q

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the functions and mechanisms of rotundic acid (RA) underlying its induction of apoptosis in caspase-3-transfected MCF-7 human breast cancer cells (Cas3-MCF-7 cells) were investigated. RA induced apoptosis in Cas3-MCF-7 cells more efficiently compared with that in MCF-7 cells transfected with cont...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Nan ML,Wang X,Li HJ,Yu DH,Sun WY,Xu HM,He YF,Zhao QC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common tumor of the musculoskeletal system. Recently, cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) has been regarded as a promising anti-oncogenic therapy. Previous experimental studies have demonstrated that CAP treatment results in significant growth inhibition of human sarcoma and is able to induce a...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Haralambiev L,Wien L,Gelbrich N,Lange J,Bakir S,Kramer A,Burchardt M,Ekkernkamp A,Gümbel D,Stope MB

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tricholemmal carcinoma is an extremely rare malignancy of the skin, and its biological behavior and management is controversial. The objective of the present study was to investigate the clinicopathological characteristics and management of tricholemmal carcinoma of the head and neck region. The study analyzed 15 pati...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Feng Z,Zhu HG,Wang LZ,Zheng JW,Chen WT,Zhang Z,Dong W,Qu W,Wang YA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid biopsies of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) can detect molecular alterations, including tumor-specific mutations, and have recently been used as a non-invasive diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive tool. However, this technique is not commonly used in the gynecological field. Gene mutation profiling of liquid bi...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Iwahashi N,Sakai K,Noguchi T,Yahata T,Toujima S,Nishio K,Ino K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the bone is rare and typically causes an extensive bone lesion. The present study describes a case of diffuse large B-cell primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the bone, which occurred in the right femur, and was initially treated with surgery and chemotherapy. Following a 7-year period of complete ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Hu JY,Yu D,Wu YH

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pendred syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes a disturbance in thyroid hormone synthesis, which results in thyroid dysfunction and the development of goiter and sensorineural deafness. The present report describes the case of a young euthyroid male, who developed a large goiter and hearing impairment, despite...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Hu EW,Liu LB,Jiang RY,He XH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a rare hypopharyngeal diverticulum, Killian-Jamieson diverticulum (KJD) is usually incidentally detected, small, asymptomatic and likely to be misdiagnosed as a thyroid nodule. In order to avoid unnecessary treatments resulting from misdiagnosis, principles to distinguish between esophageal diverticula and thyroid ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Cao L,Ge J,Zhao D,Lei S

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:The aim of the present study was to observe the in vivo targeting characteristic of angiopoietin 2-small interfering RNA (Ang2-siRNA) plasmid/chitosan magnetic nanoparticles in an established nude mouse model of malignant melanoma (MM) under an external magnetic field. The nude mouse MM model was first established, th...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Shan XY,Xu TT,Liu ZL,Hu XF,Zhang YD,Guo SZ,Wang B

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Fibroadenoma (FA) is the most common type of breast lesion in young female individuals. Although malignant transformation in FA is rare, there is evidence of an association with breast carcinoma, particularly in middle-aged females with associated risk factors, such as a strong family history and/or BRCA-1/2 mutations...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Hua B,Xu JY,Jiang L,Wang Z

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor nutritional status is common in ovarian cancer. It is well known that the nutritional status of a patient with malignant disease is associated with survival, and that it can be assessed by serum levels of rapid turnover proteins (RTPs), such as retinol binding protein, prealbumin and transferrin. Systemic inflamm...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Watanabe T,Shibata M,Nishiyama H,Soeda S,Furukawa S,Gonda K,Takenoshita S,Fujimori K

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell myoepithelial carcinoma is a very rare disease which develops primarily in the parotid gland. To date, only 17 cases of clear cell myoepithelial carcinoma have been reported worldwide. Among them, only three cases developed in the minor salivary gland in the oral cavity. No cases developed in the base of th...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Park JH,Choi JY,Hong R,DO NY

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to retrospectively review the contribution of 18F-fluorodeoxygluose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) in the assessment of biochemical recurrence in patients with a diagnosis of local-stage prostate cancer (PCa) who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP) or receive...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Öztürk H,Karapolat I

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and malignant type of glioma, with a poor prognosis for patients. The survival time of patients varies greatly due to the complexity of the human genome, which harbors diverse oncogenic drivers. In order to identify the specific driving factors, 325 glioma samples from ...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Zeng F,Wang K,Huang R,Liu Y,Zhang Y,Hu H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing number of microRNAs (miRNAs) have been reported to play an important role in the development and progression of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In particular, microRNA-497-5p (miR-497-5p) has been proposed as a tumor suppressor miRNA in human cancers. However, the role of miR-497-5p and its potential mo...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Huang X,Wang L,Liu W,Li F

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ku80, a subunit of the heterodymeric Ku protein, is clearly implicated in nonhomologous end joining DNA repair, chemoresistance and radioresistance in malignant tumors. In the present study, the clinicopathological significance of Ku80 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) was investigated. The expression level...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wang S,Wang Z,Yang YU,Shi MO,Sun Z

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebroma, a nervous system tumor located in the cranial cavity, seriously affects health and may even become life-threatening. The aim of the study was to investigate and discuss the expression levels of cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44) and Golgi protein 73 (GP73) in different types of cerebroma tissues and to st...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Yuan Y,Shi L,Wang S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer (OVAC) remains the most lethal gynecological malignancy; it is ranked fifth among the most common types of cancer that affect women worldwide. Several aspects of the disease, including molecular pathogenesis, epidemiology, histological subtypes, poor prognosis at early stages due to the absence of speci...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Sun W,Fu S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous system polycomb 1 (NSPc1) is a member of the polycomb group (PcG) family of proteins and has been demonstrated to maintain the differentiation and pluripotency of stem cells. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been demonstrated to be involved in the control of pluripotency and differentiation in embryonic and...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Liang Z,Wang Y,Li H,Sun Y,Gong Y

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to explore the diagnostic and prognostic value of lncRNA maternally expressed 3 (MEG3) in cervical cancer. Eighty-four patients with cervical cancer from February 2013 to March 2014 were enrolled in the observation group (OG), and another 58 female subjects who underwent physical examination at...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Wan S,Zhao H

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective therapies are limited for pancreatic cancer, particularly for those with distant tumour metastases. Therefore, more individualised drug screening is urgently required. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool to investigate the genomic landscape of patients and the mechanism of drug response, whic...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Guan Z,Lan H,Sun D,Wang X,Jin K

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of apoptosis-stimulating of p53 protein 2 (ASPP2) can induce apoptotic cell death in hepatoma cells, which contributes to a killing effect of ASPP2 on treating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In the present study, ASPP2 overexpression failed to induce apoptotic cell death in the HCC Huh7.5 cell line, bu...

journal_title：Oncology letters

authors： Liu D,Li R,Guo X,Pang L,Zang Y,Liu K,Chen D

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00