Correlation of TUBB3 expression with chemotherapy sensitivity and clinical outcome of advanced gastric cancer treated with paclitaxel-based chemotherapy / 中国肿瘤临床

Objective:To investigate the expression of class IIIβ-tubulin (TUBB3) in advanced gastric cancer and analyze its correlation with the chemotherapeutic effect of paclitaxel and the prognosis of patients. Methods:This study reviewed 49 cases with advanced gastric cancer, diagnosed from December 2008 to December 2011 at Shaoyang Central Hospital. All patients were treated with paclitax-el or docetaxel-based chemotherapy. TUBB3 expression was determined using immunohistochemistry. Relationships of the expression of TUBB3 protein with chemotherapy response, progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) were analyzed. Results:Among the 46 valid cases treated with paclitaxel or docetaxel-based regimen, treatment response was as follows:complete response (CR) in 1 patient, partial response (PR) in 17 patients, stable disease (SD) in 22 patients, and progression disease (PD) in 6 patients. The overall response rate (CR+PR) was 39.13％(18/46). The chemotherapy response rates in low and high TUBB3 expression groups were 54.17％(13/24) and 22.73％(5/22), respectively (χ2=4.736, P=0.029). The patients with low TUBB3 expression had significantly longer median PFS and OS than those with high TUBB3 expression (PFS 5.9 vs. 3.9 months, P=0.032;OS 11.6 vs. 7.9 months, P=0.001). Univar-iate analysis and multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that the expression of TUBB3 was an independent prognostic factor in advanced gastric cancer. Conclusions:The present study demonstrates that TUBB3 expression in advanced gastric cancer is associated with chemotherapy response and prognosis;especifically, the low expression group had a better chemotherapy response and progno-sis than the high expression group. The result of this study may provide a new sight for tailored chemotherapy and for predicting prog-nosis of individuals with advanced gastric cancer.

Evaluation of screening performance of HPV DNA test on specimens from different sites of the female genital tract / 中华肿瘤杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To evaluate the diagnostic performance of different specimens for detecting CIN2(+), and to find the solution of the problem that why the performance of self-collected specimen is worse than cervical specimen collected by physician.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The cervix, lower 1/3 vagina, upper 1/3 vagina and self-collected specimens from each of the 806 women who took part in this multi-center screening program from May 2006 to April 2007 were tested by hybrid capture 2 (HC2) technique. The diagnostic performance of HC2 on the four specimens for detecting CIN2(+) lesions was calculated. Linear array was performed on the four specimens from 489 out of the 806 women and the diagnostic performance of linear array on the four specimens for detecting CIN2(+) lesions was also calculated. Z test was used to compare the area under ROC and McNemar or χ(2) test was used to compare the sensitivity and specificity of different specimens.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The area under ROC of the cervix, 1/3 upper vagina, 1/3 lower vagina and self-collected samples testing by HC2 for detecting CIN2(+) lesions were 0.902, 0.793, 0.769 and 0.773, respectively (P < 0.001). Using 1 RUL/CO as the cut-point of HC2, the sensitivity of the cervix, upper vagina, lower vagina and self-collected samples were 98.0%, 91.8%, 83.7% and 81.6%. Compared with the cervical specimen, the sensitivity of self-collected specimen for detecting CIN2(+) lesions was significantly lower (P = 0.008). Lowering the cutoff value for HC2 test could improve the sensitivity of self-collected specimen, but it significantly compromised the specificity. The sensitivity of self-collected specimen tested by linear array for detecting CIN2(+) lesions was 95.7% and it was not significantly different compared with the sensitivity of cervical specimen (97.9%) tested by HC2.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The performance of self-collected specimen tested by HC2 for detecting CIN2(+) lesions is lower than that of physician-collected cervical specimen, and lowering the cutoff value can't improve its diagnostic performance. Using linear array as the HPV DNA test can significantly improve the screening diagnostic performance of self-collected specimens.</p>

Distribution of type-specific human papillomavirus and its characters on age in paraffin-embedded adenocarcinoma specimens / 肿瘤研究与临床

Objective Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is necessary to the development of cervical cancer.Until now,the distribution of specific HPV type has not been identified clearly yet.Besides,the relationship between age and the HPV type-specific distribution in cervical adenocarcinoma needs to be further investigated.Methods This study included 32 specimens of cervical adenocarcinoma out of a multicenter clinical study in China.The specimen blocks were sliced by sandwich method.DNA was amplified by SPF10-PCR method.DNA genotyping used LiPA method.All biopsy specimens had pathologic diagnosis.The prevalence of HPV type-specific distribution was described and the differences were analyzed statistically.Results 32 adenocarcinoma cases were included in this sttudy.HPV positive rate was 53.1％ (17/32).HPV-18 was the most prevalent type,which took up 47.4 ％ (8/17) of the total HPV positive cases,followed by HPV-16,which took up 26.3 ％ (5/17) of the total HPV positive cases.Other HPV types detected were HPV-39,HPV-45 and HPV-66.One multi-infection case was found (HPV-18 and HPV-66 co-infection).The average ages of HPV-16 and HPV-18 were 48.6 and 40.6 years old respectively,which showed statistically difference (P =0.049).When the patients younger than 50 years old were compared with the patients equal or older than 50 years old as two age groups,HPV positive rate did not show significantly statistical difference (P =0.074) between the two age groups.The prevalence of HPV-18 manifested significant differences between the two age groups in both HPV positive adenocarcinoma cases and overall adenocarcinoma cases (P =0.029and P =0.003 respectively).The prevalence of HPV-16 did not show any significant statistical difference between the two age groups in either HPV positive adenocarcinoma cases or overall adenocarcinoma cases (P =0.6 and P =1 respectively).HPV-16 and/or HPV-18 infection (at least one positive) in HPV positive adenocarcinoma cases did not have statistical significance (P =0.052),while in overall adenocarcinoma cases,HPV-16 and/or HPV-18 infection presented significant statistical difference (P =0.005).Conclusion HPV-18 and HPV-16 were two most prevalent HPV types in cervical adenocarcinoma.HPV infection and HPV-18infection were more common in young women.The prevalence of HPV-16 was more common in older adenocarcinoma cases compared with HPV-18.Those findings will provide evidence for the evaluation of HPV vaccine in preventing cervix related diseases.

Effects of the extract from semen viticis negundo with acetoactate on human gastric carcinoma SGC-7901 cell in vitro and in vivo / 中国药理学通报

Aim To study the effects of EVn-50 on human gastric carcinoma SGC-7901 cells in vitro and invivo. Methods Human gastric carcinoma SGC-7901 cells were cultured in vitro. The inhibitory rate of cells was determined by cell counting and the cell growth curve was made. Plate clone formation assay was carried out to detect the phenotypes of colony formation. Trail of human gastric carcinoma xenografts in nude mouse model was used to draw the transplant tumor growth curve and test inhibition rate of EVn-50 on human gastric carcinoma. The histopathological changes were observed by lightmicroscopy and electronmicroscopy. Results In vitro,EVn-50 at 1,10,100 mg?L-1inhibited the growth and proliferation of SGC-7901 cells in a dose-dependent manner and a time-dependent manner; The colony-forming rate was reduced drastically compared with control group(P

Inhibitory effects of rosiglitazone enhances cisplatin on growth of lung adenocarcinoma in nude mice / 中国药理学通报

Aim To investigate the effects of rosiglitazone(ROZ)combined with cisplatin(DDP)on the growth of transplanted lung adenocarcinoma in mice and the corresponding mechanism.Methods The human lung adenocarcinoma mode was established with A549 cell in nude mice.Twenty eight female Balb/c-nu mice with lung adenocarcinoma were randomly divided into seven groups.① control group;② low-dose DDP group(1 mg?kg-1);③ high-dose DDP group(4 mg?kg-1);④ low-dose ROZ group(10 mg?kg-1);⑤ high-dose ROZ group(30 mg?kg-1);⑥ low-dose DDP plus low-dose ROZ group;⑦ low-dose DDP plus high-dose ROZ group;all the mice were sacrificed at 48 h after the last injection.Subcutaneous tumor was subjected to histological examination.Expressions of PPAR?、PTEN and pAkt in tumor tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry.Results ① In every treatment group tumor growth was suppressed significantly.Intraperitoneal injection of low and high-dose DDP,low and high-dose ROZ,low-dose DDP plus low-dose ROZ and low-dose DDP plus high-dose ROZ group resulted in a significant inhibition of the growth of A549 cells in vivo compared with that of control group(P