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- Holgersson, Georg, et al.
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The prognostic value of pre-treatment thrombocytosis in two cohorts of patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with curatively intended chemoradiotherapy
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Ingår i: Neoplasma (Bratislava). - Bratislava : AEPress. - 0028-2685 .- 1338-4317. ; 64:6, s. 909-915
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Chemoradiotherapy is the standard of care for inoperable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This treatment, however, offers only a small chance of cure and is associated with many side effects. Little research has been made concerning which patients benefit most/least from the treatment. The present study evaluates the prognostic value of anemia, leukocytosis and thrombocytosis at diagnosis in this treatment setting. In the present study, data were collected retrospectively for 222 patients from two different phase II studies conducted between 2002-2007 in Sweden with patients treated with chemoradiotherapy for stage IIIA-IIIB NSCLC. Clinical data and the serum values of hemoglobin (Hgb), White blood cells (WBC) and Platelets (Plt) at enrollment were collected for all patients and studied in relation to overall survival using Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimates and a multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression model. The results showed that patients with thrombocytosis (Plt > 350 x 109 /L) had a shorter median overall survival (14.5 months) than patients with normal Plt at baseline (23.7 months). Patients with leukocytosis (WBC > 9 x 109 /L) had a shorter median survival (14.9 months) than patients with a normal WBC at baseline (22.5 months). However, in a multivariate model including all lab parameters and clinical factors, only thrombocytosis and performance status displayed a prognostic significance. In Conclusion, thrombocytosis showed to be an independent prognostic marker associated with shorter overall survival in stage III NSCLC treated with curatively intended chemoradiotherapy. This knowledge can potentially be used together with established prognostic factors, such as performance status when choosing the optimal therapy for the individual patient in this clinical setting
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- Karlsson, I, et al.
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Local delivery of temozolomide via a biologically inert carrier (Temodex) prolongs survival in glioma patients, irrespectively of the methylation status of MGMT
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Ingår i: Neoplasma (Bratislava). - : AEPRESS SRO. - 0028-2685 .- 1338-4317. ; 66:2, s. 288-293
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Glioma is the most common brain malignancy. Standard first-line therapy for glioma includes surgery, radiotherapy and systemic administration of temozolomide. However, temozolomide does not reach the brain in sufficient doses when administered orally and has poor efficiency in more than half of the patients. Strategies to improve the treatment of glial malignancies are therefore needed. We have recently developed a system (Temodex) for local administration of temozolomide by encapsulating the drug in a biologically inert matrix. Here, we assessed the effect of Temodex in combination with standard therapy in a small-scale clinical study. Since the efficacy of temozolomide therapy is known to depend on the methylation status of the O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase gene (MGMT) promoter, we also analyzed whether the effect of Temodex was influenced by the methylation status of MGMT. Our data show that the combination of standard therapy and Temodex was more efficient than standard therapy alone, promoting the overall patient survival by up to 33 weeks. Moreover, the efficacy of Temodex was not dependent on the methylation status of MGMT. Local Temodex administration in combination with standard therapy thereby emerges as a novel therapeutic option, with applicability that is independent on the methylation status of the MGMT promoter.
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- Luo, B., et al.
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Intratumoral polymorphism of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta-87 T > C in colorectal cancer
- 2019
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Ingår i: Neoplasma (Bratislava). - : AEPRESS SRO. - 0028-2685 .- 1338-4317. ; 66:4, s. 609-618
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARD) is a nuclear receptor transcription factor whose single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), especially PPARD -87 Tamp;gt;C (rs2016520), may play an important role in regulation of PPARD expression. However its expression patterns as well as contribution to colorectal cancer (CRC) are still controversial. In this study, the presence of the intratumoral heterogeneity of PPARD -87 Tamp;gt;C (rs2016520) polymorphism and its influence in CRC were investigated. Tumor masses from primary CRC patients were collected during the tumorectomy, specimens from different sites of the same tumor mass were sampled and stored individually. The SNP of PPARD -87 Tamp;gt;C was detected by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP), and the expression of PPARD in vivo was observed by immunohistochemistry. The correlation of PPARD -87 Tamp;gt;C intra-tumoral polymorphism and the clinicopathological parameters of patients was analyzed statistically. Tumor samples were collected from 106 CRC patients (70 males and 36 females) with an average age of 61.04 +/- 13.67 years. A total number of 808 samples (7.60 +/- 1.60 per patient) were mainly harvested at peripheral superficial (n=376), central superficial (n=163), invasive front (n=112) and mesenteric cancer foci (n=42) of tumor tissues as well as cancerous adjacent mucosa (n=104). PCR-RFLP analysis showed that T/T (n=460, 56.9%) and T/C (n=334, 41.3%) were the main genotypes of -87 Tamp;gt;C among these samples. Furthermore, intratumoral genotype of -87 Tamp;gt;C was homogeneous in 90 patients and heterogeneous in other 16 patients. The intratumoral heterogeneity was related to patient age (p=0.016), tumor location (p=0.011) and the grade of differentiation (p=0.022). For patients with intratumoral heterogeneity, immunochemistry showed that the expressions of PPARD were not influenced by T/T or T/C genotypes. Intratumoral heterogeneity of PPARD -87 Tamp;gt;C widely existed in CRC, and associated with patient age, tumor location and differentiation. However, the immunochemistry assay revealed that there is no significant link between heterogeneity and expression of PPARD.
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- Söderlund, Gustav, et al.
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Inhibition of puromycin-induced apoptosis in breast cancer cells by IGF-I occurs simultaneously with increased protein synthesis
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Ingår i: Neoplasma (Bratislava). - 0028-2685 .- 1338-4317. ; 51:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of the following work was to study the apoptosis inducing effect of puromycin in MCF-7 breast cancer cells and compare this effect with cycloheximide and emetine, 2 other inhibitors of protein synthesis. We also wished to investigate if the apoptosis modulating effect of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) was similar for the 3 inhibitors. An immunological assay, quantifying mono- and oligonucleosome fragments and morphological criteria after nuclear staining, were used to study apoptosis. Protein synthesis was measured by incorporation of 3H-leucine in the cells, and solution hybridization and Western blot were performed to estimate IGF-I receptor m-RNA and IGF-I receptor protein respectively. Puromycin at 0.5 μg/ml induced a high level of apoptosis in MCF-7 breast cancer cells, although there was still a non-negligible amount of synthesized protein. In the case of cycloheximide and emetine, apoptosis occured when protein synthesis was almost completely blocked. IGF-I at a concentration of 10 ng/ml significantly reduced the level of apoptosis induced by puromycin, emetine, or cycloheximide. We also noticed a parallel increase in 3H-leucine incorporation when apoptosis induced by puromycin was lowered as an effect of IGF-I, in contrast to cycloheximide and emetine where IGF-I reduced the apoptosis level without increasing the 3H-leucine incorporation. At a higher concentration of puromycin (5. 7 μg/ml), which blocked protein synthesis, IGF-I at 10 ng/ml did not reduce apoptosis. The level of IGF-I receptor m-RNA was not influenced by the use of a concentration of puromycin (0.5 μg/ml) inducing a high degree of apoptosis. These results suggest, that reduction of puromycin-induced apoptosis by IGF-I occurs simultaneously with increased protein synthesis, in contrast to emetine and cycloheximide. Furthermore it would appear that puromycin-induced apoptosis is not caused by reduced levels of IGF-I receptors.
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