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Objective To study the relationship between postoperative recurrence time and relat-ed clinical factors in patients with breast cancer. Methods The clinical data of 170 patients with recur-rent breast cancer were analyzed retrospectively. The recurrence time and the related influencing factors were analyzed using Kaplan-Meier test. Results The one-way analysis of variance showed that endocrine therapy,estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor(ERPR)status,Ki-67 and lymph node metastasis were related to the recurrence time(P < 0. 05). Pearson correlation analysis showed that age,neutrophil-to-lym-phocyte ratio(NLR)and platelet-to-lymphocyte(PLR)were related to the recurrence time(P < 0. 05). Fi-nally,Cox multivariate analysis showed that endocrine therapy,lymph node metastasis and Ki-67 were in-dependent prognostic factors of relapse(P < 0. 05). Conclusion To develop personalized follow-up and adjuvant treatment strategy according to the characteristics of patients may prevent breast cancer from re-currence.
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Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of recombinant human Ad-p53( rAd-p53) injection combined with cisplatin in treating malignant pleural effusion by conducting a Meta-analysis. Methods A comprehensive collection of randomized controlled studies(RCTs)of rAd-p53 combined with cisplatin versus single cisplatin in the treatment of malignant pleural effusion was retrieved form Cochrane Library,Pubmed, EMBase,CBM,CNKI,Wanfang and VIP databases. Meta-analysis was conducted by RevMan 5. 2 software. Results Ten RCTs involving 538 patients were identified in the study. The Meta-analysis results showed that rAd-p53 combined with cisplatin group had a higher hydrothorax total remission rate than single cisplatin group (RR = 1. 67,95% CI:0. 90-2. 01;Z = 5. 51,P = 0. 000 01). The PS score in rAd-p53 combined with cisplatin group was better than that in single cisplatin group(RR = 1. 76,95% CI:1. 45-2. 14;Z = 5. 69,P <0. 000 01). The incidence rate of adverse reaction of heating in the former was higher than that in the latter (RR = 3. 10,95% CI:2. 25-4. 27;Z = 6. 94,P < 0. 000 01). There were no significant differences in adverse reactions of chest pain(RR = 0. 99,95% CI:0. 50-1. 96;Z = 0. 04,P = 0. 97),gastrointestinal reaction (RR = 1. 16,95% CI:0. 90-1. 50;Z = 1. 13,P = 0. 26)and marrow suppression(RR = 1. 09,95% CI:0. 81-1. 47;Z = 0. 59,P = 0. 55)between the two groups. Conclusion rAd-p53 combined with cisplatin therapy for the treatment of malignant pleural effusion is superior to single cisplatin therapy. Mean while,fever is self-limited,and the safety is identified. It is worthy for promotion of rAd-p53 injection combined with cisplatin inclinical treatment of advanced malignant pleural effusion.
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Programmed death1-ligand(PD-L1)is a new member of B7 family,whose receptor is pro-grammed death-1(PD-1). The interaction between PD-L1 and PD-1 can down-regulate the activation of immune response. There are some differences in the expression of PD-1 and PD-L1 in normal tissues and tumor tissues, which may provide a new way for the immunotherapy of carcinoma.
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Objective To evaluate the feasibility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in assessing the radiosensitizing effect of oleanolic acid (OA) in C6 rat glioma model,and to explore the possible mechanism of radiosensitizing effect of OA.Methods Thirty-two C6 glioma-bearing SD rats were divided into 4 groups by random number table:group A without OA and radiotherapy,group B with OA alone,group C with radiotherapy alone,group D with OA and radiotherapy.18F-FDG PET/CT was performed before radiotherapy,at 24 h and 7 d after radiotherapy.The tumor SUVmax was measured.All rats were sacrificed and tumor tissues were excised for HE and immunohistochemistry staining.Paired t test,one-way analysis of variance,LSD-t test and Spearman correlation analysis were performed to analyze the data using SPSS 13.0.Results There was no statistically significant difference in SUVmax among the 4 groups (SUVmax of groups A,B,C,D:5.252± 0.536,5.261±0.544,5.273±0.520,5.232±0.507) before treatment (F=0.008,P＞0.05).At 24 h postradiotherapy,SUVmax of groups C and D (4.766±0.511 and 4.403 ±0.486) decreased significantly (t =14..788,13.366,both P＜0.05);while groups A and B (5.680±0.635 and 5.763±0.689) increased significantly (t =-11.578,-8.651,both P＜0.05;F=10.550,P＜0.05).However,there was no statistically significant difference between groups C and D (t =1.453,P＞0.05).At 7 d post-radiotherapy,SUVmax of groups C and D decreased significantly (t =9.750,10.530,both P＜0.05);while SUVmax of groups A and B (t=-35.353,-6.884,both P＜0.05) increased significantly (F=97.691,P＞0.05).SUVmax of Group D decreased significantly compared with that of group C (t =5.329,P＞0.05).Less tumor cells and more areas of necrosis were observed in group D compared with those in other groups by HE staining.The expression of HIF-1α was lower in group D than that in other groups by immunohistochemistry staining.HIF-1α expression was positively correlated with SUVmax(r=0.853,P＜0.05).Conclusion 18F-FDG PET/CT has potential to evaluate the radiosensitizing effect of OA in vivo,and the radiosensitization of OA might be related to the down regulation of HIF-1α.
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Objective To observe heart functions of the patient with cancer receiving combined chemotherapy of paclitaxel plus cisplatin through troponin test and speckle tracking echocardiography. Methods 43 patients who had been scheduled to receive combined chemotherapy of paclitaxel plus cisplatin were recruited in the study. Ser-um cTnT and cTnI levels were measured before chemotherapy,after the first cycle of chemotherapy,middle cycle of chemotherapy and after the last cycle of chemotherapy. In all patients, the lobal longitudinal systolic strain( GSL) and strain rate(GSRs)of the LV as well as peak early-diastolic strain rate (GSRe) and peak late-diastolic strain rate ( GSRa) were measured by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography at every stage. Results The patients' serum cTnT and cTnI level after chemotherapy were increased gradually(P0. 05), but compared to those of the middle and last stage of chemotherapy, significant difference (P<0.01) existed. Conclusion Paclitaxel plus cisplatin induce certain subclinical myocardial injury to patient's heart. Cardiac troponin level and speckle tracking echocardiography have important value in the obser-vation of heart functions of the patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy.
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Objective To investigate the radiosensitization effect and underlying mechanism of Paeonol on human lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549 in vitro. Methods Cells were assigned to following groups:control,Paeonol alone,irradiation alone,Paeonol combined with irradiation.The effect of Paeonol on cell proliferation was evaluated by the MTT assay. Clonogenic assay was performed to measure the radiosensitization effect of Paeonol under three concentrations around 20％ IC50.Cell apoptosis was determined by TUNEL assay and flow cytometry (FCM).The expression of Survivin protein was analyzed by Western blot.Results Cell growth was inhibited by Paeonol in a dose-dependent manner and the IC50 of Paeonol was (25.2 ± 2.1 ) mg/L. Clonogenic assay showed that Paeonol could markedly enhance cell radiosensitivity and the sensitizing enhancement ratio (SER) was 1.29.After the pretreatment of Paeonol with different concentrations,radiation-induced apoptosis increased with the doses at 24,48,and 72 h post-irradiation ( t =4.95,3.03,3.78,4.59,2.88,3.70,5.54,P ＜ 0.05 ). Moreover,the protein expression of Survivin was obviously down-regulated by 22.6％ - 56.7％ ( t =4.15,7.30,13.47,P ＜0.05 ) due to the treatment of Paeonol.When the Paeonol-treated cells were further irradiated with 6 Gy X-rays,the expression of Survivin was reduced to 22.2％ - 69.4％ ( t =4.30,8.36,16.34,P ＜ 0.05 ).Conclusions Paeonol had radiosensitization effect on the human lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549 in vitro,where the down-regulated Survivin protein might be involved.
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Clinical oncology is becoming more and more important as the tumor incidence increases year by year. According to the need of clinical teaching, some important contents in teaching should be emphasized. And some ideas should be pard attention to such as chronic disease needing long-period and long period of treatment of chronic tumor diseases, necessary pathlolgical diagnosis, in despensible evidence-based medicine, multidisciplinary treatment combined with individualized treatment, caring psychological problems and pain in cancer patients, recognizing tumor research progresses by way of molecular targeted therapy. Finally, some teaching methods to raise study interest in a flexible way were put forward.
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Objective:To investigate the effect and elucidate the mechanism of the selective cyclooxygenase-2(COX-2)inhibitor NS-398 on apoptosis and survivin, XIAP and c-IAP1 expressions of hepatocarcinoma cell lines. Methods:The proliferation of hepatocarcinoma BEL-7402 cells treated with NS-298 at different concentrations were evaluated by MTT assay. The apoptosis was detected by flow cytometry (FCM) and TUNEL assay. Expressions of COX-2, survivin, XIAP and c-IAP1 were analyzed by immunocytochemical staining. Results: NS-398 significantly inhibited cell proliferation of BEL-7402 cells and induced apoptosis. Immunocytochemisty indicated that the expressions of COX-2, survivin, XIAP and c-IAP1 were significantly down-regulated in BEL-7402 cells by NS-398 treatment compared with untreatment group (P<0.01). Conclusion:NS-398 inhibits the proliferation and induced apoptosis of BEL-7402 cells. The mechanism may be related with down-regulation of the survivin, XIAP and c-IAP1 expression.
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Objective To investigate the technique of radio-stereotactic mammography aspiration biopsy(SCNB) and the clinical usage.Methods The stereotactic mammography aspiration biopsy was performed on 38 breast focuses,the results were compared with pathology.The technique and operation skills of SCNB were studied.Results In this 38 breast focuses,the accuracy of diagnostic aspiration,misplay and false negativity were 84.2%,7.89%and 7.89% respectively.No false positive was found.Conclusion In this technique,the distance between the needle tip and focus central was calculated by computer.This is a effective,easy operate and safe tool for the localization and very valuable in the diagnosis of a early cancer.
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AIM To study immunomodulation and antitumor activity of paeonol. METHODS Paeonol was administered singlely to HepA bearing mice. 14 d later, the inhibition of tumor weight were observed. IL-2 and TNF-? content in serum, IL-2 secretion by splencytes, TNF-? production by PM? were measured by RIA. RESULTS Paeonol possess markedly inhibitory activity on the growth of HepA tumor in mice, and IL-2 and TNF-? were induced signficantly. CONCLUSION Paeonol has the effects of antitumor. This effect may be derived from inducing IL-2 and TNF-? production.
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Aim To investigate the inhibitory effect of paeonol (Pae) on the human esophageal cancer cell line Eca-109 in vitro and in vivo and its effect on apoptosis.Methods Cytotoxic effect of Pae on Eca-109 cells cultured in vitro was measured by MTT assay.Anti-tumor activity was performed on BALB/c nude mice xenografts model.The morphologic changes of tumor tissue were observed under light microscope and transmission electron microscope.The apoptosis index was assessed by TUNEL.Results Pae had significant in- hibitory effect on the proliferation of Eca-109 cells,and the IC50 value was 0.342 mmol?L-1.In the model of human esophageal cancer xenografts in BALB/c nude mice,the inhibitory rates of Pae group (25、50、100、200 mg?kg-1) were 10.67%、23.54%、27.91% and 34.46% respectively.In vivo administration of Pae 100 mg?kg-1 combined with cisplatin 5 mg?kg-1 resulted in a significant inhibition of Eca-109 tumor growth with the inhibitory rate of 77.91%,compared with cisplatin used alone (58.71%).The more apoptotic tumor cells could be seen under light microscope in every theraperutic groups than those in control.Changes of ultrastructure of tumor cells including concentration and side accumulation of the nuclear chromatin,and the fragmentation of the nuclear was observed under transmission electronic microscope.Apoptosis body was also found.The apoptosis indexes of every theraperutic groups were significantly different from the control.Conclusion Pae can inhibit the cell growth and induce apoptosis in human esophageal cancer cell line Eca-109 in vitro and in vivo.
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AIM To investigate the effect of paeonol on proliferation and apoptosis of K 562. METHODS The inhibitory effect of paeonol on K 562 cells proliferation was assayed by MTT dye reduction. HE staining were used to observe the morphology of apoptotic cells, and Flow cytometric analysis were also used to analyze the K 562 apoptosis. RESULTS Pae at the concentration of 7.81～250 mg?L -1 significantly inhibited proliferation of K 562 cells in dose-dependent manner. Typical apoptotic changes were observed in K 562 cells under the light microscope. By FCM methods, the apoptotic rates of K 562 cells were increased from 10.01% to 34.16% after treatment of Pae at concentrations from 7.81 to 125 mg?L -1 for 24 h, which showed obvious concentration-effect relationship. The apoptotic rates of K 562 cells were also increased when Pae (6.25, 25 and 100 mg?L -1) was treated for 6, 12 and 24 h, which showed obvious time-effect relationship. CONCLUSION Paeonol may inhibit K 562 cell proliferation and induce its apoptosis.
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AIM To determine the concentration of paeonol in the bulk drug and injection, a method of reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) was developed. METHODS Lichrospher C_ 18 column(4.6 mm?250 mm, 5 ?m)was used with methanol-acetonitrile-water(30∶40∶30)as mobile phase at a flow rate of 0.8 ml?min -1 . 20 ?l of sample was injected into the C_ 18 column where the temperature was 25℃. The detection wavelength was 274 nm. RESULTS The linear regression equation for paeonol was = 3 772.525 8 X- 0.747 4 (r = 1.000 0, n =5) under the linearity range from 0.02 mg?L -1 to 25.60 mg?L -1 . The average recovery was 99.87%. The relative standard deviations of the intra-day and inter-day were less than 4%. CONCLUSION The method is simple and rapid, which may be used for the determination of paeonol and its preparation for different purpose.