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Objective@#To investigate the value of planned neck dissection combined with induction chemotherapy and concurrent chemoradiotherapy in regional control and the outcome of locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.@*Methods@#A prospective randomized controlled study totally enrolled sixty-four patients of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas(include oropharynx, hypopharynx, and larynx) in stages Ⅳa-Ⅳb with lymph node metastase was were N2-N3. All patients firstly received 2-3 cycles of induction chemotherapy(ICT), then divided into two groups randomly, according to the efficacy of ICT. Group A(the study group) received planned neck dissection(PND) and concurrent chemoradiotherapy(CCRT). Group B(the control group) received concurrent chemoradiotherapy(CCRT). The differences in clinicopathologic features, local recurrence(LR), regional recurrence(RR), disease-free survival(DFS), and overall survival(OS) between the two groups were estimated. SPSS 19.0 software was used to analyze the data.@*Results@#Group A enrolled twenty-one patients, and group B enrolled forty-three patients.The follow-up of all patients were 4-55 months, median follow-up time was 22 months. In study group, two-year OS and DFS were 80.9% and 68.3%, respectively. In control group, two-year OS and DFS were 90.7% and 67.1%, respectively. There was no significant difference in gender(P=0.215), age(P=0.828), primary tumor site(P=0.927), LR(P=0.126), DFS(P=0.710), and OS(P=0.402) between the two groups, while the RR(χ2=5.640, P<0.05) and distant metastasis(χ2=10.363, P<0.01) showed significant differences between the two groups.@*Conclusion@#The ICT+ PND+ CCRT treatment model has benefit on regional control of locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
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Objective@#To investigate the value of detecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in patients with local advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LAHNSCC).@*Methods@#Twenty cases of LAHNSCC and eight healthy cases as the negative control were collected. The clinicopathological factors were evaluated. The LAHNSCC CTCs were enriched by specific antibody nanofluidic chip immunoassay using CytoSorter CTCs sorting system. LAHNSCC CTCs were identified by immunofluorescence staining. The relationships between CTCs and the clinicopathological features of LAHNSCC were analyzed. The numbers of CTCs were monitored and compared two weeks after inductive chemotherapy and at the end of the treatment.@*Results@#CTCs were detect in 15 (75%) 20 patients with LASHNCC, with an average number of 22.4 CTCs. There was a correlation between the numbers of CTCs and age or N staging (P<0.05). Among the 15 cases with CTCs, 13 cases received inductive chemotherapy, for whom CTCs were detected again after inductive chemotherapy in all of these 13 patients, with an average number of 9.5 CTCs. Ten of the fourteen cases (71.4%) were still CTCs detected After whole treatments CTCs were detected in 14 patients, of them, 10 (71.4%) patients showed positive CTCs, with an average 1.6 CTCs. The numbers of CTCs decreased after either inductive chemotherapy or the whole treatment. The number of detected CTCs after whole treatment decreased nearly to background levels.@*Conclusions@#CTCs have a high detection rate in the peripheral blood of patients with LAHNSCC, especially in patients ≥60 years old and with ≥ N2 stage before treatment. Real-time detection of dynamic change of CTCs may assist to evaluate therapeutic effect.
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Objective To screen and identify the dengue virus-specific antigens,then establish the ELISA detection method for dengue virus antibody.Methods Using bioinformatic software DNAStar and ANTHEPROT to analyze the hydrophilicity,flexibility,surface probability and antigenicity of dengue virus type 1-4,Japanese encephalitis virus and Yellow fever virus M,E and NSI protein amino acid sequence and also consider the influence of secondary structure.Then in accordance with epitopes localion and amino acid sequence similarity,forecast the share and specific epitopes.Reference the sequence information of different dengue virus strains in GenBank to analyze the epitopes conservative.Based on the results of bioinformatic analysis,5 specific epitopes were amplified and inserted into prokaryotic expression vector pMAL-C2x or pET32a.Then the vectors was transferred into E.coli Rosetta( DE3 ).lsopropyl-β-D-thiogalactoside(IPTG) was used to induce the expression of gene segments.SDS-PAGE were used to identify the expression proteins,and the antigenicity were tested using Western blot.Using the antigen selected by Western blot,ELISA method for dengue virus antibody detection was established.Results Eighty shared epitopes and 25 specific epitopes were forecasted,and 5 antigenic fragments encloude analyzed epitopes from dengue virus type 2 and 3 were expressed in E.coli successfully.One dengue virus type 1-4 shared antigens (Den-Ag5),one dengue virus type 2 and 4 shared antigens( DenAg3),one dengue virus type 1-3 shared antigens(Den-Ag2) and two dengue virus type 1,2 and 4 shared antigens( Den-Ag1,Den-Ag4)were conformed using Western blot.Using antigens Den-Ag5,Den-Ag1 and DenAg2,the ELISA method for dengue virus antibody detection were established.Conclusion Based on the bioinformatic analysis and Western blot verification,5 dengue virus specific antigen were conformed,and the ELISA detection method for dengue virus antibody were established.
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Objective To determine long-term survival of 214 patients of lung cancer with brain metastases and to detect the potential prognostic factors.Methods A retrospective review was pedormed evaluating patients diagnosed as lung cancer with brain metastasis from Jan 1992 to Dec 2001 at Zhejiang Cancer Hospital.Two hundred and fourteen cases were enrolled.All hospital records were thoroughly reviewed in a retrospective manner.The management of the brain metastases were as follows: 8 patients underwent surgical resection and postoperative whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT); 2 cases received resection and chemotherapy; 10 had resection alone; 10 underwent WBRT alone,36 had chemotherapy alone; 15 received the combination of resection,chemotherapy and WBRT; 104 were performed with chemotherapy combined with WBRT; 29 had only supportive care.Survival time was measured from the date of the first treatment for malignancy to the date of death or the last follow-up.Seven further potential prognostic factors were investigated for survival including age,gender,T or N status,number of extra cranial metastases,pathological type and treatment modality.Statistical analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier method and Cox-regression analysis.Results The overall median survival time was 10 months (95% CI9.06--10.94) and the 1,3,5 year survival rates were 7.46%,1.14% and 0,respectively.In the univariate model,none of the following variables had effect on survival: age,gender,T stage of the tumor,nodal status,number of extra cranial metastases and histological type.Univariate analysis showed a better survival for the combination of surgical resection,chemotherapy and radiation (P=0.00).Based on Cox-regression analysis,treatment modality was the only independent predictor of survival Conclusions Aggressive combined therapy of brain metastases may achieve a survival advantage.Excellent overall survival of lung cancer with brain metastases has been achieved with a combination of WBRT with surgical resection and chemotherapy.
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Objective: To observe the effect of Shenfu Injection on carcinemia and study its mechanism.Methods: Mice C57 Lewis lung cancer model were established.The changes of physiological conditions(body weight,food and water intake),the serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-?(TNF-?),interleukin-6(IL-6) and interleukin-1(IL-1) were observed in the experiment.Results: Shenfu Injection can signifi cantly increase water and food intake of carcinemia mice,and inhibited the loss of body weigh(P
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Objective To explore the relationship among HBV load ,IFN-? and IL-4 in sera from patients with CHB.Methods Fluorescence quantitative PCR(FQ-PCR) was used to detect quantity of HBV DNA,and ELISA was used to determine contents of IFN-? and IL-4.According to HBV DNA quantity(copies/ml),the patients with chronic hepatitis B(CHB) were divided into high(≥10 7/ml),middle(10 6～10 5/ml) and low (
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OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of female genital tract infection diseases and the relative risk factors so as to find an interventional strategy. METHODS Totally 1 230 cases were from gynecologic clinic and family planning clinic,1 000 women were workers,teachers,cadres and medical professionals who had routine gynecologic examination in our hospital.Pelvic examination and laboratory tests were taken at the same time. RESULTS Among 1 230 cases,the rate of suffering general gynecological inflammation diseases was 90.2%,the highest was cervicitis(52.4%),the next was vulvitis and vaginitis(32.2%),and pelvic inflammation diseases(5.6%).Laboratory tests indicated the rate of suffering bacterial vaginosis was 14.7%,the vulvovaginal candidiasis was 11.1% and the Trichomonas vaginitis was 2.6%,From 1 000 women for healthy medical examination,the bacterial vaginosis was 9.3%,the vulvovaginal candidiasis was 5.2% and the Trichomonas vaginitis was 0.9%. CONCLUSIONS The general gynecological inflammation diseases and sexually transmitted diseases(STD) are important among women′s psychological and physical health.The strategy for prevention is early diagnosis and treatment,stopping the path of transmission and pay the attention to hygiene health and healthy medical examination.
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Objective To establish a specific,sensitive and applied method for the detection and differentiation of dengue virus types Ⅰ-Ⅳ,Japanese encephalitis virus and yellow fever virus.Methods Based on the genomes sequence analysis,6 pairs of primers were designed.The special capture probes of dengue virus types Ⅰ-Ⅳ,Japanese encephalitis virus and yellow fever virus were amplified,cloned and sequenced.Then the microwell plates were precoated using these capture probes,and the forward primers were labeled using biotin.The samples were then amplified using the biotin labeled forward primers and reward primers.The microwell plate hybridization was processed for detecting and differentiating the virus.The precoated DNA concentration,precoated time,hybridization temperature and hybridization time were optimized carefully.Results The A value of positive samples were over 0.5,while the average A value of the negative samples was less than 0.1.The S/N value exceeded 10.0.Sensitivity experiment suggested the method of PCR-ELISA could detect the virus RNA in 107 times dilution,while RT-PCR could detect the virus RNA in only 106 times dilution.The stability experiment of PCR-ELISA using DVⅠ suggested that the within-batch coefficient of variation was 6.21%,the between-batch coefficient of variation was 9.92%;the within-batch coefficient of variation in negative control was 1.92%,and the between-batch coefficient of variation in negative control was 3.68%.No visible changes were found on the performance of the coated microwell plates when stored in 4℃for 6 monthes.Conclusion PCR-ELISA is a more sensitive and specific method than RT-PCR is in the early detection and type identification of dengue Ⅰ-Ⅳ types virus,Japanese encephalitis virus and yellow fever virus.