abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (FGFR4) has been proved to be correlated with progression and prognosis in many cancers. However, the significance of FGFR4 in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is still not well elucidated. METHODS:In our experiment, we detected FGFR4 expression in 237 samples of NSCLC ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Huang HP,Feng H,Qiao HB,Ren ZX,Zhu GD

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer remains the leading cause of death in cancer patients. Severe treatment side effects and late stage of disease at diagnosis continue to be an issue. We investigated whether local treatment using 2-diethylaminoethyl-dextran methyl methacrylate copolymer with p53 (DDMC-p53) with or without cisplatin and/or m...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Hohenforst-Schmidt W,Zarogoulidis P,Stopek J,Vogl T,Hübner F,Turner JF,Browning R,Zarogoulidis K,Drevelegas A,Drevelegas K,Darwiche K,Freitag L,Rittger H

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewing's sarcoma is a rare and highly aggressive cancer most frequently arising in people under 20 years of age. We report an uncommon case of primary paraesophageal Ewing's sarcoma in a 25-year-old male harboring the infrequent EWSR1/ERG fusion transcript with multiple splice variants coexisting in the same tumor. The...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Tarazona N,Navarro L,Cejalvo JM,Gambardella V,Pérez-Fidalgo JA,Sempere A,Navarro S,Cervantes A

更新日期：2015-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:HES1 is the target of Notch signaling which is reported to affect cell differentiation and maintain the cells in G0 phase in various tissues including the hematopoietic tissue. HES1 expression appears to be an independent prognostic factor for survival in a heterogeneous group of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients....

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Tian C,Tang Y,Wang T,Yu Y,Wang X,Wang Y,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in both sexes, accounting for over one quarter of cancer deaths. Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) comprises 85%-90% of lung cancer diagnoses and despite advances in multimodality therapies, 5-year survival rates remain dismal with a median survival for pat...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Kanaan Z,Kloecker GH,Paintal A,Perez CA

更新日期：2015-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognostic value of inflammatory index in esophageal cancer (EC) has not been established. In the present study, therefore, we initially evaluated a novel prognostic system, named the COCC (COmbination of C-reactive protein [CRP] and carcinoembryonic antigen [CEA]), for making a prognosis in patients wit...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Huang Y,Liu JS,Feng JF

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy and the second most common cause of cancer-related death in men. Despite high cure rates with surgery and/or radiation, 30%-40% of patients eventually develop advanced cancer. Docetaxel is one of the most effective and well established chemotherapeutic agents for prostate canc...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Zhou F,Chen X,Fan S,Tai S,Jiang C,Zhang Y,Hao Z,Zhou J,Shi H,Zhang L,Liang C

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have reported an association between the A23G polymorphism (rs 1800975) in the xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XPA) gene and risk of digestive system cancers. However, the results are inconsistent. In this study, we performed a meta-analysis to assess the association between XPA A23G polymorph...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： He L,Deng T,Luo H

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lapatinib is a dual epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and HER2 inhibitor. Overexpression of these receptors is frequently observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). As growing proportion of HNSCC is characterized by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, we aimed at evaluating the effica...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Fumagalli I,Dugue D,Bibault JE,Clémenson C,Vozenin MC,Mondini M,Deutsch E

更新日期：2015-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:High-mobility group protein 2 (HMGA2) and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-associated proteins play key roles in cancer progression and metastasis. However, the clinical significance of HMGA2 and its relationship with EMT markers in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is unclear. This study aimed to assess ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Xia YY,Yin L,Tian H,Guo WJ,Jiang N,Jiang XS,Wu J,Chen M,Wu JZ,He X

更新日期：2015-01-17 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：AIM:To investigate the significance of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)2, and HER3 expression on survival outcomes in Chinese gastric cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded specimens from 121 patients who underwent gastrectomy at Sh...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Tang D,Liu CY,Shen D,Fan S,Su X,Ye P,Gavine PR,Yin X

更新日期：2014-12-16 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:Bevacizumab plus taxane chemotherapy improves progression-free survival (PFS) versus taxane monotherapy in the first-line treatment of HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (MBC) and appears promising in the second-line setting. This retrospective analysis evaluated the efficacy and safety of this combinati...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Redondo A,Martínez V,Zamora P,Castelo B,Pinto A,Cruz P,Higuera O,Mendiola M,Hardisson D,Espinosa E

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a patient with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL) with central nervous system involvement at the time of diagnosis who achieved complete remission for over 5 years in response to therapy. The patient, a 71 year-old woman, was previously healthy with the exception of taking verapamil for...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Sawada T,Omuro Y,Kobayashi T,Hishima T,Koizumi F,Kanemasa Y,Shimoyama T,Sasaki E,Maeda Y

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant methylation of CpG dinucleotides is a commonly observed epigenetic modification in human cancer. Thus, detection of aberrant gene promoter methylation as a tool for diagnosis of tumors or as a prognostic marker has been widely described for many types of cancers, including nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). E...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Xue R,Yang C,Zhao F,Li D

更新日期：2014-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:One of the most challenging aspects of breast carcinoma chemotherapy is the rapid acquirement of drug resistance. Improving the sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs is very important for successful treatment. Mus81 plays an important role in maintaining the stability of the genome and DNA repair. However, rece...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Qian Y,Liu Y,Yan Q,Lv J,Ni X,Wu Y,Dong X

更新日期：2014-10-21 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：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical outcomes of conventional fractionated helical tomotherapy in patients with small to medium hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) without portal vein tumor thrombosis. METHODS:Patients with up to four HCC lesions not treatable by surgery or percutaneous ablative ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Jung J,Kong M,Hong SE

更新日期：2014-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway is a critical oncogenic driver signal in a number of malignancies. The discovery of activating mutations in the MAPK pathway has led to the development of MAPK pathway inhibitors. Selumetinib is a potent and selective inhibitor of MEK1 and MEK2, which are essential d...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Kim DW,Patel SP

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hypoxia is a common phenomenon encountered in solid cancers, leading to chemotherapy resistance and therefore to aggressiveness of the disease. The homeostatic response to hypoxia is mediated by hypoxiainducible factor-1 (HIF-1). The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of HIF1α in patients with prim...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Braicu EI,Luketina H,Richter R,Cacsire Castillo-Tong D,Lambrechts S,Mahner S,Concin N,Mentze M,Zeillinger R,Vergote I,Sehouli J

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Iliac vein-ureteral fistula is a rare cause of hematuria. The diagnosis of an iliac vein-ureteral fistula can be elusive even with the use of multiple methods. With regards to the treatment, there appears to be a shift in management from primarily open surgical to primarily angiographic management. We present a unique...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Luo JD,Liu B,Wang P,Zhou F,Xu XL,Li SQ,Cai SL,Wang YM

更新日期：2014-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:"Gefitinib" is a first-generation epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine-kinase inhibitor. More than half of patients receiving gefitinib develop acne-like eruption. Evozac(®) Calming Skin Spray (Evaux Laboratoires, Évaux-les-Bains, France) is made of Évaux thermal spring water and commonly used for the t...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Wang Y,Yang Y,Xu J,Yu J,Liu X,Gao R,Zhang L

更新日期：2014-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations and the response to first-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS:A total of 266 patients with stage IIIB or IV NSCLC who received platin...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Fang S,Wang Z,Guo J,Liu J,Li C,Liu L,Shi H,Liu L,Li H,Xie C,Zhang X,Sun W,Li M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two decades ago, lymphatic mapping of sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) was introduced into surgical cancer management and was termed sentinel node navigated surgery. Although this technique is now routinely performed in the management of breast cancer and malignant melanoma, it is still under investigation for use in other ...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Tausch C,Baege A,Rageth C

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the management and prognosis of primary choriocarcinoma (PCC) in male patients. METHODS:The clinical records of males with PCC who were treated at Peking Union Medical College Hospital between 1990 and 2012 were analyzed retrospectively. The literature regarding this clinical condition was also re...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Jiang F,Xiang Y,Feng FZ,Ren T,Cui ZM,Wan XR

更新日期：2014-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progression-free survival (PFS) and time to progression (TTP) are frequently used to establish the clinical efficacy of anti-cancer drugs. However, the surrogacy of PFS/TTP for overall survival (OS) remains a matter of uncertainty in metastatic breast cancer (mBC). This study assessed the relationship betwee...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Beauchemin C,Cooper D,Lapierre MÈ,Yelle L,Lachaine J

更新日期：2014-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in the treatment of patients with liver metastases. Between August 2006 and July 2011, patients with 1-4 liver metastases were enrolled and treated with SBRT using the CyberKnife(®) system at Tianjin Medical U...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Yuan ZY,Meng MB,Liu CL,Wang HH,Jiang C,Song YC,Zhuang HQ,Yang D,Wang JS,Wei W,Li FT,Zhao LJ,Wang P

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the clinical significance of cyclic adenosine monophosphate-responsive element-binding (CREB) and phosphorylated CREB (pCREB) expression in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Immunohistochemistry and Western blot analyses were performed to detect the expression and subcellul...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Yu L,Guo X,Zhang P,Qi R,Li Z,Zhang S

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor cells before and after epidermal growth-factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy might display different characteristics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of prior EGFR TKI therapy on the efficacy of subsequent pemetrexed plus platinum (PP) in advanced chemonaïv...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Tseng JS,Yang TY,Chen KC,Hsu KH,Yu CJ,Liao WY,Tsai CR,Tsai MH,Yu SL,Su KY,Chen JJ,Chen HY,Chang GC

更新日期：2014-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a man with an advanced nonkeratinizing squamous cell thymic carcinoma harboring c-KIT exon 13 missense mutation K642E. This aberration is rare and has never been described previously in patients with thymic cancers. It has been found in a small number of cases of gastrointestinal stromal tumor an...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Catania C,Conforti F,Spitaleri G,Barberis M,Preda L,Noberasco C,Lazzari C,Toffalorio F,de Marinis F,Manzotti M,De Pas TM

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, 10 years after the first demonstration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs), prognostic significance in metastatic breast cancer using the US Food and Drug Administration-cleared system CellSearch(®), the potential utility of CTCs in early clinical development of drugs, their role as a surrogate marker of respon...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Raimondi C,Gradilone A,Naso G,Cortesi E,Gazzaniga P

更新日期：2014-04-17 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：:In the last decade, the advent of biological targeted therapies has revolutionized the management of several types of cancer, especially in the realm of hematologic malignancies. One of these pathways, and the center of this review, is the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) pathway. The PI3K pathway seems to play an...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Castillo JJ,Iyengar M,Kuritzky B,Bishop KD

更新日期：2014-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, "ipilimumab," an anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) monoclonal antibody, has been demonstrated to improve overall survival in metastatic melanoma. "CTLA-4" is an immune-checkpoint molecule that downregulates pathways of T-cell activation. Ipilimumab, by targeting CTLA-4, is able to remove the CTL...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Della Vittoria Scarpati G,Fusciello C,Perri F,Sabbatino F,Ferrone S,Carlomagno C,Pepe S

更新日期：2014-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognosis of ipsilateral supraclavicular lymph node metastasis (ISLM) without evidence of distant metastases at diagnosis in Chinese women with breast cancer and to elucidate the clinical value of adjuvant radiotherapy. METHODS:We performed a retrospective an...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Wu SG,Sun JY,Zhou J,Li FY,Lin Q,Lin HX,He ZY

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the need for pulmonary surgery in the treatment of refractory gestational trophoblastic neoplasia with lung metastasis after normalization of serum beta human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) level with salvage chemotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A review of medical records of patients with refractor...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Feng F,Hu H,Wu L,Ren T,Wan X,Xiang Y

更新日期：2014-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Experimental disruption of the telomere overhang induces a potent DNA damage response and is the target of newly emerging cancer therapeutics. Introduction of T-oligo, an eleven-base oligonucleotide homologous to the 3'-telomeric overhang, mimics telomere disruption and induces DNA damage responses through a...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Mulnix RE,Pitman RT,Retzer A,Bertram C,Arasi K,Crees Z,Girard J,Uppada SB,Stone AL,Puri N

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The expression of an array of signaling molecules, along with the assessment of real-time cell proliferation, has been performed in U87 glioma cell line and in patients' glioblastoma established cell cultures in order to provide a better understanding of cellular and molecular events involved in glioblastoma pa...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Cruceru ML,Enciu AM,Popa AC,Albulescu R,Neagu M,Tanase CP,Constantinescu SN

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:miRNAs (miRs) are short RNA molecules that are involved in the posttranscriptional regulation of mRNA. The roles of miRs in tumor pathogenesis have only recently become a focus of research. It is becoming increasingly clear that miRs are important regulators of apoptosis, proliferation, invasion, and metastasis in can...

journal_title：OncoTargets and therapy

authors： Cheng Q,Yi B,Wang A,Jiang X

更新日期：2013-11-18 00:00:00