Prognostic value of tumor‐infiltrating lymphocytes and PD‐L1 expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Jie Hu, Takeshi Toyozumi, Kentaro Murakami, Satoshi Endo, Yasunori Matsumoto, Ryota Otsuka, Tadashi Shiraishi, Shinichiro Iida, Hiroki Morishita, Tenshi Makiyama, Yuri Nishioka, Masaya Uesato, Koichi Hayano, Akira Nakano, Hisahiro Matsubara

“…Kaplan–Meier analysis showed that overall survival (OS) was significantly associated with decreased CD8+ TILs and PD‐L1 TC‐positive expression, which promote ESCC progression and metastasis. Conclusion Tumor depth, CD8, and PD‐L1 TC were independent prognostic factors in ESCC, and a predictive nomogram with these three risk factors improved the accuracy of predicting OS in patients with ESCC after surgical resection. …”
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Novel Prognostic Factors Associated with Cell Cycle Control in Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Cancer Patients by Raffaele Pezzani, Loris Bertazza, Elisabetta Cavedon, Simona Censi, Jacopo Manso, Sara Watutantrige-Fernando, Gianmaria Pennelli, Francesca Galuppini, Susi Barollo, Caterina Mian

“…PTTG1 expression was statistically different among the groups with or without regional lymph node metastasis (p<0.0001) and advanced stage disease (p<0.01). …”
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Glucose‐induced LINC01419 reprograms the glycolytic pathway by recruiting YBX1 to enhance PDK1 mRNA stability in hepatocellular carcinoma by Yanfang Liu, Junjiao Song, Qili Shi, Bing Chen, Wenying Qiu, Yizhe Liu, Shenglin Huang, Xianghuo He

“…Here we revealed that glucose‐induced LINC01419 promoted the growth and metastasis of HCC cells by driving metabolic reprogramming. …”
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MicroRNA Regulation of Endothelial Junction Proteins and Clinical Consequence by Yugang Zhuang, Hu Peng, Victoria Mastej, Weiguo Chen

“…Abnormal tight junction miRNA regulation accompanies cerebral middle artery ischemia, brain trauma, glioma metastasis, and so forth. The major components of adherens junctions include VE-cadherin, β-catenin, plakoglobin, P120, and vinculin. …”
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Therapeutic Implications of PPARγ in Human Osteosarcoma by Eric R. Wagner, Bai-Cheng He, Liang Chen, Guo-Wei Zuo, Wenli Zhang, Qiong Shi, Qing Luo, Xiaoji Luo, Bo Liu, Jinyong Luo, Farbod Rastegar, Connie J. He, Yawen Hu, Barrett Boody, Hue H. Luu, Tong-Chuan He, Zhong-Liang Deng, Rex C. Haydon

“…Furthermore, these agents have the potential to be used as chemopreventive agents for the OS patients who undergo the resection of the primary bone tumors in order to prevent local recurrence and/or distal pulmonary metastasis.…”
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Injectable supramolecular hydrogel co-loading abemaciclib/NLG919 for neoadjuvant immunotherapy of triple-negative breast cancer by Binyu Zhu, Ying Cai, Lingli Zhou, Lei Zhao, Jiameng Chen, Xiaoting Shan, Xujie Sun, Qian You, Xiang Gong, Wen Zhang, Helen He Zhu, Pengcheng Zhang, Yaping Li

“…The neoadjuvant immunotherapy reduces tumor recurrence and pulmonary metastasis and prolongs the survival of animals. This hydrogel provides a potential platform for neoadjuvant immunotherapy of triple-negative breast cancer with reduced toxicity compared with free abemaciclib.…”
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Diagnostic Value of Glycosylated Extracellular Vesicle microRNAs in Gastric Cancer by Wang S, Ma C, Ren Z, Zhang Y, Hao K, Liu C, Xu L, He S, Zhang J

“…The markers also showed excellent performance in indicating perineural invasion status and lymph node metastasis in the testing cohort.Discussion: The model demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing patients with GC, especially in differentiating early-stage GC from benign patients. …”
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Clinical analysis of molecular typing of 146 cases of endometrial carcinoma by Bo Zhang, Bo Zhang, Dan Zhou, Shuo Zhang, Jinbowen Yan, Qingwei Meng, Qiubo Lv

“…There were significant differences observed among the four TCGA types and pathological types, pathological grades, FIGO stage, lymph node metastasis, and LVSI. The progression-free survival (PFS) rates of patients with POLE hypermutation, MSI-H type, CNL type, and CNH type were 100%, 100%, 93.62%, and 73.3%, respectively. …”
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Molecular Crosstalking among Noncoding RNAs: A New Network Layer of Genome Regulation in Cancer by Marco Ragusa, Cristina Barbagallo, Duilia Brex, Angela Caponnetto, Matilde Cirnigliaro, Rosalia Battaglia, Davide Barbagallo, Cinzia Di Pietro, Michele Purrello

“…Such a hidden network of RNA-RNA competitive interactions pervades and modulates the physiological functioning of canonical protein-coding pathways involved in proliferation, differentiation, and metastasis in cancer. Moreover, the pivotal role of ncRNAs as keystones of network structural integrity makes them very attractive and promising targets for innovative RNA-based therapeutics. …”
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Impact of thoracic radiotherapy on first‐line treatment outcomes in ES‐SCLC patients by Xiaoli Mu, Yixin Zhou, Qing Liu, Jiantao Wang, Feng Xu, Feng Luo, Ke Wang, Lu Li, Panwen Tian, Yalun Li, Jiewei Liu, Yan Zhang, Jiyan Liu, Yan Li

“…Multivariate analysisidentified treatment group and liver metastasis as independent prognosticfactors (P < 0.05). …”
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The necroptosis-related lncRNA ENSG00000253385.1 promotes the progression of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by targeting the miR-16-2-3p/VDAC1 axis by Xiaoyang Duan, Jian Shi, Ran Hou, Yajie Huang, Chunyan Wang, Huazhen Du

“…High lncRNA ENSG00000253385.1 expression, positive lymph node metastasis and clinical stage III were associated with poor overall survival (OS) in patients with ESCC, and were independent risk factors for prognosis of patients with ESCC. …”
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Emerging roles of mitochondrial sirtuin SIRT5 in succinylation modification and cancer development by Zhangmin Ke, Zhangmin Ke, Kaikai Shen, Li Wang, Hao Xu, Xia Pan, Zhenjue Qian, Yuting Wen, Tangfeng Lv, Xiuwei Zhang, Yong Song

“…SIRT5 exhibits dual functionalities: it can promote tumor proliferation, metastasis, drug resistance, and metabolic reprogramming, thereby acting as an oncogene; conversely, it can also inhibit tumor cell growth and induce apoptosis, functioning as a tumor suppressor gene. …”
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EPIGENETICS TODAY AND TOMORROW by B. F. Vanyushin

“…Use of specific small RNAs in the therapy of cancer and other diseases appears to be particularly promising, especially in connection with directed inhibition of transcription of genes responsible for cell malignization and metastasis. The therapeutic action of many known small biologically active peptides seems to be expressed mainly at the epigenetic level. …”
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Prognostic value of serum inflammatory markers in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma undergoing surgery: a two-center retrospective cohort study by Yaqin Dong, Fan Wang, Jiaying Deng, Tong Tong, Xiangxun Chen, Liming Wu, Yichun Wang, Mei Kang, Yutong Xu, Guangjie Shi, Liyang Zhu

“…Results The Multi-variable Cox regression analysis revealed that tumor, node, metastasis stage, smoking status, neutrophil-platelet score, and prognostic nutritional index were independent postoperative prognostic factors for patients with esophageal cancer (P < 0.05). …”
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PTOV1 exerts pro-oncogenic role in colorectal cancer by modulating SQSTM1-mediated autophagic degradation of p53 by Yongli Fan, Yuqin Li, Xia Luo, Shiqi Xiang, Jia Hu, Jingchun Zhan, Weilong Chang, Rui Deng, Xianwen Ran, Yize Zhang, Yudie Cai, Weiwei Zhu, Huifen Wang, Zhibo Liu, Di Wang

“…The upregulated PTOV1 promoted cell proliferation, migration, invasion, tumor growth and metastasis of CRC cells in vitro and in vivo. At the molecular level, PTOV1 destabilized p53 by activating autophagy and recruiting p53 for the cargo receptor SQSTM1 directed autophagic degradation. …”
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Analisis Ketahanan Hidup Lima Tahun Kanker Tiroid yang Dikelola di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Oktahermoniza Oktahermoniza, Wirsma Arif Harahap, Tofriza Tofriza, Rosfita Rasyid

“…Didapatkan 100 (85,5%) %) penderita sehat bebas tumor, 7 (6%) penderita kambuh lokal, 1 (0,9%) metastasis jauh serta 9 (7,7%) penderita meninggal. …”
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Gravity-based microfiltration reveals unexpected prevalence of circulating tumor cell clusters in ovarian and colorectal cancer by Anne Meunier, Javier Alejandro Hernández-Castro, Nicholas Chahley, Laudine Communal, Sara Kheireddine, Newsha Koushki, Nadia Davoudvandi, Sara Al Habyan, Benjamin Péant, Anthoula Lazaris, Andy Ng, Teodor Veres, Luke McCaffrey, Diane Provencher, Peter Metrakos, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, David Juncker

“…Finally, we analyze blood from 17 epithelial ovarian cancer patients with either localized or metastatic disease, and from 13 colorectal cancer liver metastasis patients. Results Here, we show that GµF optimized for cell cluster isolation captures cCTCs from blood while minimizing unwanted cluster disaggregation, with ~85% capture efficiency. …”
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Insights in biomarkers complexity and routine clinical practice for the diagnosis of thyroid nodules and cancer by Maria de Lurdes Godinho de Matos, Mafalda Pinto, Ana Gonçalves, Sule Canberk, Maria João Martins Bugalho, Paula Soares

“…The overexpression of miRNAs is correlated with tumor aggressiveness, high tumor node metastasis (TMN) stage, and recurrence, representing a real signature of thyroid cancer, particularly PTC. …”
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The Impact of Nutritional Status and Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (CD4+ and CD8+) on Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Patients by Lukman K, Septianto R, Rudiman R, Ruchimat T, Sribudiani Y, Nugraha P, Primastari E, Budiman D

“…Nutritional status, age, histological type, tumor site, stage, and metastasis showed no significant correlation with the expression of either CD4+ or CD8+. …”
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Expression and Significances of Contactin-1 in Human Gastric Cancer by Ji-Wei Yu, Sheng-Hua Wu, Rui-qi Lu, Ju-gang Wu, Xiao-Chun Ni, Gou-cai Zhou, Hai-guang Jiang, Lin-Hai Zheng, Xiao-Qiang Li, Guang-Ye Du, Bo-Jian Jiang

“…All of them correlated with lymphatic metastasis, which might play an important role in the lymphatic invasion via lymphangiogenesis pathway in GC.…”
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