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Cancers, Volume 11, Issue 6

June 2019 - 153 articles

Cover Story: Despite being the most deadly gynecological cancer, there has been little improvement in the clinical management of ovarian cancer over the last two decades. Tumor molecular analyses have identified important alterations involved in ovarian carcinogenesis, but this development has not modified the outcomes of most patients. Moreover, invasive procedures required for tumor sampling are not easy to use for clinical purposes. In recent years, circulating tumor biomarkers (“liquid biopsies”) have been massively explored. In this issue of Cancers, we describe the methods of analysis and results related to liquid biopsies related to ovarian cancer screening and early diagnosis, prognosis evaluation, prediction of response to systemic therapies, and monitoring of residual subclinical disease. We also detail why their use has not yet been validated in routine practice. View this paper
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Articles (153)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,290 Views
19 Pages

Chemotherapeutic Drugs Inhibiting Topoisomerase 1 Activity Impede Cytokine-Induced and NF-κB p65-Regulated Gene Expression

  • Tabea Riedlinger,
  • Marek Bartkuhn,
  • Tobias Zimmermann,
  • Sandra B. Hake,
  • Andrea Nist,
  • Thorsten Stiewe,
  • Michael Kracht and
  • M. Lienhard Schmitz

25 June 2019

Inhibitors of DNA topoisomerase I (TOP1), an enzyme relieving torsional stress of DNA by generating transient single-strand breaks, are clinically used to treat ovarian, small cell lung and cervical cancer. As torsional stress is generated during tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,665 Views
17 Pages

Loss of PTEN in Fallopian Tube Epithelium Results in Multicellular Tumor Spheroid Formation and Metastasis to the Ovary

  • Matthew Dean,
  • Vivian Jin,
  • Tova M. Bergsten,
  • Julia R. Austin,
  • Daniel D. Lantvit,
  • Angela Russo and
  • Joanna E. Burdette

25 June 2019

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) can originate in the fallopian tube and then spread to the ovary. Our objective was to evaluate the role of multicellular tumor spheroids (MTS) in ovarian metastasis. By testing a panel of murine oviductal epi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,351 Views
18 Pages

MiRNAs Are Involved in Tall Cell Morphology in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

  • Laura A. Boos,
  • Anja Schmitt,
  • Holger Moch,
  • Paul Komminoth,
  • Cedric Simillion,
  • Ilaria Marinoni,
  • Yuri E. Nikiforov,
  • Marina N. Nikiforova,
  • Aurel Perren and
  • Matthias S. Dettmer

25 June 2019

Five percent of papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) show an adverse clinical outcome (ACO). The tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinomas (TCV) is a good predictor of an ACO, however, the identification of tall-cells is subjective. Micro RNAs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,752 Views
17 Pages

Systematic Analysis of Gene Expression in Lung Adenocarcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma with a Case Study of FAM83A and FAM83B

  • Ling Cai,
  • Danni Luo,
  • Bo Yao,
  • Donghan M. Yang,
  • ShinYi Lin,
  • Luc Girard,
  • Ralph J. DeBerardinis,
  • John D. Minna,
  • Yang Xie and
  • Guanghua Xiao

25 June 2019

Introduction: In our previous study, we constructed a Lung Cancer Explorer (LCE) database housing lung cancer-specific expression data and clinical data from over 6700 patients in 56 studies. Methods: Using this dataset of the largest collection of l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,675 Views
19 Pages

Utility of Circulating Cell-Free RNA Analysis for the Characterization of Global Transcriptome Profiles of Multiple Myeloma Patients

  • Maoshan Chen,
  • Sridurga Mithraprabhu,
  • Malarmathy Ramachandran,
  • Kawa Choi,
  • Tiffany Khong and
  • Andrew Spencer

25 June 2019

In this study, we evaluated the utility of extracellular RNA (exRNA) derived from the plasma of multiple myeloma (MM) patients for whole transcriptome characterization. exRNA from 10 healthy controls (HC), five newly diagnosed (NDMM), and 12 relapsed...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,220 Views
16 Pages

Exo-miRNAs as a New Tool for Liquid Biopsy in Lung Cancer

  • Orazio Fortunato,
  • Patrizia Gasparini,
  • Mattia Boeri and
  • Gabriella Sozzi

25 June 2019

Lung cancer is the predominant cause of cancer-related deaths. The high mortality rates are mainly due to the lack of diagnosis before the cancer is at a late stage. Liquid biopsy is a promising technique that could allow early diagnosis of lung canc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,599 Views
30 Pages

Radiosensitization and a Less Aggressive Phenotype of Human Malignant Glioma Cells Expressing Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) Mutant Protein: Dissecting the Mechanisms

  • Jacqueline Kessler,
  • Tim Hohmann,
  • Antje Güttler,
  • Marina Petrenko,
  • Christian Ostheimer,
  • Urszula Hohmann,
  • Matthias Bache,
  • Faramarz Dehghani and
  • Dirk Vordermark

25 June 2019

The presence of an isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) mutation is associated with a less aggressive phenotype, increased sensitivity to radiation, and increased overall survival in patients with diffuse glioma. Based on in vitro experimentations in ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,160 Views
16 Pages

Targeting of Histone Demethylases KDM5A and KDM6B Inhibits the Proliferation of Temozolomide-Resistant Glioblastoma Cells

  • Massimo Romani,
  • Antonio Daga,
  • Alessandra Forlani,
  • Maria Pia Pistillo and
  • Barbara Banelli

24 June 2019

Lysine histone demethylases (KDMs) are considered potential therapeutic targets in several tumors, including glioblastoma (GB). In particular, KDM5A is involved in the acquisition of temozolomide (TMZ) resistance in adult GB cells and UDX/KDM6B regul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,729 Views
13 Pages

Prognostic Role of Albumin, Bilirubin, and ALBI Scores: Analysis of 1000 Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Undergoing Radioembolization

  • Mark Antkowiak,
  • Ahmed Gabr,
  • Arighno Das,
  • Rehan Ali,
  • Laura Kulik,
  • Daniel Ganger,
  • Christopher Moore,
  • Michael Abecassis,
  • Nitin Katariya and
  • Samdeep Mouli
  • + 4 authors

24 June 2019

Introduction: We compared the efficacy of the ALBI (albumin–bilirubin) score to the established Child–Pugh (CP) grade in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients treated with yttrium-90 radioembolization (Y90). We further assessed the indi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,995 Views
13 Pages

Role of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase in Stage III Colorectal Cancer

  • Debora Basile,
  • Lorenzo Gerratana,
  • Angela Buonadonna,
  • Silvio Ken Garattini,
  • Tiziana Perin,
  • Emanuela Grassilli,
  • Gianmaria Miolo,
  • Maria Grazia Cerrito,
  • Claudio Belluco and
  • Giulio Bertola
  • + 5 authors

24 June 2019

Background: Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) is involved in the immune response and its deficiency impairs B cell maturation. We evaluated the expression of a novel BTK isoform, p65BTK, in colorectal cancer (CRC), to identify its impact on survival. Ma...

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