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Objective To retrospectively analyze the clinical data of 47 young NSCLC patients mutation style of EGFR and PD-L1 expression in tumor cells, to understand their clinicopathological and molecular characteristics. Methods We enrolled 47 young (≤40 years old) patients confirmed as NSCLC who underwent surgical resection, and 94 old patients (≥60 years old) were matched as 1:2 by R language. EGFR mutation status was detected by ARMS-PCR, and the expression of PD-L1 was detected by immunohistochemistry. Results The median age of 47 young patients with NSCLC was 37 years old. The disease was more common in women and the majority type was adenocarcinoma. In youth group, the 19del and 20ins were more frequent, but the exon 21 L858R point mutation proportion was higher in elder group. The expression of PD-L1 was significantly increased in the solid predominant histological subtype. The PD-L1 expression in 19del patients was higher than that in the patients with L858R mutation in youth group. Conclusion The majority of young NSCLC patients are female, nonsmokers and suffered from adenocarcinoma cancer. The proportion of EGFR alteration in 19del and 20ins in youth group is higher than that in elder group. The positive rate of PD-L1 expression in solid predominant histological subtype is higher than that with other subtypes. The expression of PD-L1 in young patients with EGFR 19del is higher than that with L858R.
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BACKGROUND@#Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly aggressive malignancy characterized by rapid growth, early metastasis and acquired therapeutic resistance, and the prognosis is extremely poor. Studies have proved that the stem cell marker CD44 is correlated with tumor recurrence and treatment resistance, however, there are limited reports yet concerning on the CD44 expression and its clinical prognostic significance in SCLC patients. The purpose of this study is to investigate the expression of CD44 in tumor tissues as well as serum of SCLC patients and explore its correlation with the clinical characteristics, therapeutic effect and prognosis.@*METHODS@#The tumor tissues and serum samples of 47 newly diagnosed SCLC patients were collected. Immunohistochemistry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were applied to detect CD44. The relationship between CD44 level and the clinical characteristics as well as prognosis of the patients was analyzed.@*RESULTS@#The stem cell marker CD44 was detectable both in serum sample and tumor tissue of SCLC patients. The positive rate of CD44 in tumor tissue was significantly higher in patients with performance status (PS) 2 than that of patients with PS 0-1 (85.71% vs 30%, P=0.017). Patients were divided in to different groups according to the treatment efficacy. The CD44 immunohistochemical score and serum level in the disease progression group were significantly higher than those in the disease control group, and the differences were statistically significant (P=0.006, P=0.034), Univariate analysis depicted that the progression-free survival (PFS) of CD44 positive patients was significantly shorter than that of CD44 negative patients (5.23 mon vs 9.03 mon, P=0.036).@*CONCLUSIONS@#The positive expression of CD44 in tumor tissues of pre-treatment SCLC patients is correlated with poor PFS. The clinical significance of CD44 is worthy to be further studied.
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Objective:Through the analysis of the evaluation index system of the major rankings of universities and hospitals, this paper aims to provide a reference for the discipline construction of affiliated hospitals in universities.Methods:This paper comprehensively analyzes and compares the evaluation objectives and indicators of the five major rankings of universities and the three major rankings of hospitals in China and abroad.Results:Each main rankings have its own characteristics that both positive and with possible limitations.Conclusions:Hospital management departments can refer certain indicators in order to identify possible gaps of the hospital discipline development. Also, tailored corresponding measurements for discipline development can be developed in combination with real-needs.
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Objective:To investigate the journals and research directions of SCI papers published by the first affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen university from 2007 to 2016. To further study the trend of published journals, as well as the relationship between the research directions and departments.Methods:According to the data from Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China and the Web of Science, SCI papers of our hospital from 2007 to 2016 were searched and collected, detailed information on published journals and research directions of the papers were analyzed.Results:From 2007 to 2016, scientists of our hospital published 2 999 SCI papers in 897 kinds of journals in total, among which almost 60% papers were published in 166 kinds of journals. PLoS One published the largest number, counted as 125 papers. There were 16 kinds of journals with impact factor (IF)> 10, published 25 papers from 12 departments. A total number of 76 research directions were involved in all these papers, and the largest number of papers was in oncology, accounted for 10.3%. There were 1 647 papers in the top 10 research directions, accounted for 54.92%. Among the 76 research directions, 62 research directions involved more than 2 departments.Conclusions:The distribution of SCI journals published by the first affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen university is centralized, with few high-impact achievements. Interdisciplinary research is common and widespread, but the degree of concentration is not enough.
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Objective This paper aimed to discuss the construction strategy to promote research integrity in medical science from the perspective of hospital research administrators,and to provide theoretical basis for fulfilling the national strategic requirement of implementing "Scientific research integrity construction ".Methods Analyze and summarize the connotation,manifestations,causes and countermeasures of research integrity and research misconduct.Results The misconduct in medical scientific research occurred in various aspects,including scientific research projects,research papers,scientific achievements and other different stages.Behind reasons include weak sense of research integrity,lack of moral integrity education and training,improper academic evaluation system,lack of sound supervision,reward and punishment mechanism,etc.Conclusions A lot of strategies could adopted to promote the construction of research integrity and development of medical scientific research,for instance,strengthening scientific research integrity education,establishing a multi-dimensional evaluation system,improving the supervision,reward and punishment mechanism of scientific research integrity,as well as promote a better scientific research atmosphere.
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Objective This article conducted the statistical analysis of SCI papers published during 2013-2017 at the first affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen university ,to understand the SCI paper outcomes as to provide reference for future policy making and research administration development .Methods We analyzed the SCI papers published by the First Affiliated Hos-pital of Sun Yat-sen University from 2013 to 2017 ."Article" and"Review" type SCI papers published by the hospital as the first completion unit were statistically analyzed from the aspects of quantity ,impact factors ,journals and discipline distribu-tion .Results A total of 2268 SCI papers were published in 5 years ,distributed in 1162 journals .The quantity and the average impact factor both increased year by year ,but mainly concentrated in traditional dominant disciplines .Conclusions The SCI papers were increasing annually since 2013 .However ,we still need to improve the quantity and quality of high-level articles ,to promote the development of disciplines ,to strengthen the construction of public experimental platforms ,to continue building talent teams ,to improve the reward and evaluation system ,and to further enhance the overall scientific research level of the hospital .
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According to the actual situation that neurosurgery professional postgraduate is un-even and the ability of operation is low and combined with new requirements of medical development, the author discusses concretely the neurosurgery master graduate students' clinical ability cultivation from the necessity and teaching measures of adding neurosurgery microscopy techniques course, neural micro dissection course, neuroimaging curriculum course. The specific course orienta-tion andproject drive-independent inquiry teaching mode are the characteristics of cultivation measures. The key point for the implementation of measures lies in the teachers' effective guidance of students' intrinsic motivation according to the discipline direction, on the basis of grasping curriculum positioning.
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Objective To observe cerebral apoplexy patients complicated with carotid atherosclerosis plaque given aggressive lipid lowering treatment on the prognosis of stroke and reduce the recurrence rate through the large sample study on neurological department of internal medicine.Methods 300 cases of cerebral infarction complicated with different degree of neck lesions were selected and randomly divided into 3 groups,each group had 100 cases.Intensive lipid-lowering group received fluvastatin,80mg/d + 100mg aspirin,conventional dose group received fluvastatin,40mg/d + 100mg aspirin,aspirin group was given aspirin 100mg.After 4 weeks,8 weeks,12 weeks,16 weeks,20 weeks,24 weeks,blood lipid level,changes in internal carotid artery plaque (CIMT),plaque area,and the incidence rate of cerebral vascular events after 24 weeks were observed.Results The results of intensive lipid-lowering treatment group IMT (1.06 ± 0.36) mm,plaque area (8.09 ± 0.47) mm3,the incidence rate of cerebral vascular events after 24 weeks (12％),serum lipid levels and regular dose group after treatment with IMT (1.19 ±0.39) mm,plaque area (9.91 ± 0.78) mm3,the incidence rate of cerebral vascular events after 24 weeks (18 ％),serum lipid levels after aspirin group were significantly reduced(P ＜ 0.05).Aspirin group before and after treatment,IMF,plaque area and lipid levels had no significant differences(P ＞ 0.05).Intensive lipid-lowering treatment group compared with the conventional dose group,IMT,plaque area and lipid levels improved obviously(P ＜ 0.05),the recurrence rate of ischemic cerebral vascular disease had significant difference compared with the other two groups (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Intensive lipid-lowering treatment on blood lipid levels,delay and reverse the carotid atherosclerosis is superior to conventional dose using fluvastatin group and simply antiplatelet group,and can prevent the recurrence of ischemic cerebrovascular disease.
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Objective To understand affective characteristic of Chinese words. Method 1300 adjectives and nouns of Chinese words were rated in five point scale by 65 participants in three dimensions: emotional valence,arousal and familiarity. Results Neither age effect nor gender effect were found for the word scores in each scale of each dimension. The correlation coefficients between each two dimensions were significant (P＜0.01):0. 787 for valence-arousal, 0. 550 for valence-familiarity and 0. 600 for arousal-familiarity.Conclusion The affective vocabulary system of Chinese words can be used as a tool in future emotional research.
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Objective To study the relationship between the emotion disorder and cognitive function impairment relation and its influence factors with the epilepsy patients.Methods We collected 320 cases epilepsy patients in hospital and 56 cases contrast normally in People’s Hospital of the centre of Zhanjiang, and Carry on the determine of the cognitive function separately, the determine of the emotion status, and the measurement for the quality of life, then carry on statistical analysis.Results In 320 cases with epilepsy patients, 259 cases persons has intellectual Impairment (80.9) (IQ