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Gill J, Yendamuri K, Chatterjee U, Yao S, Oladeru OT, Singh AK, Ma SJ. Racial/ethnic differences in 21-gene recurrence score and survival among patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. BMC Cancer 2024; 24:461. [PMID: 38614979 PMCID: PMC11015648 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-024-12238-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/15/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite numerous studies on racial/ethnic disparities among patients with breast cancer, there is a paucity of literature evaluating racial/ethnic differences in 21-gene recurrence score (RS) and survival differences stratified by RS risk categories. We thus performed an observational cohort study to examine racial/ethnic disparities in the context of RS. METHODS The National Cancer Database (NCDB) was queried for female patients diagnosed between 2006 and 2018 with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, pT1-3N0-1aM0 breast cancer who received surgery followed by adjuvant endocrine therapy and had RS data available. Logistic multivariable analysis (MVA) was built to evaluate variables associated with RS ≥ 26. Cox MVA was used to evaluate OS. Subgroup analyses were performed to compare the magnitude of racial/ethnic differences stratified by RS. P values less than 0.017 were considered statistically significant based on Bonferroni correction. RESULTS A total of 140,133 women were included for analysis. Of these, 115,651 (82.5%), 8,213 (5.9%), 10,814 (7.7%), and 5,455 (3.9%) were NHW, Hispanic, Black, and API women, respectively. Median (IQR) follow up was 66.2 months (48.0-89.8). Logistic MVA showed that, compared with NHW women, Black women were associated with higher RS (≥ 26 vs < 26: adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.19, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.12-1.26, p < 0.001), while HW (aOR 0.93, 95% CI 0.86-1.00, p = 0.04) and API women (aOR 1.03, 95% CI 0.95-1.13, p = 0.45) were not. Cox MVA showed that, compared with NHW women, Black women had worse OS (adjusted hazards ratio [aHR] 1.10, 95% CI 1.02-1.19, p = 0.012), while HW (aHR 0.85, 95% CI 0.77-0.94, p = 0.001) and API (aHR 0.66, 95% CI 0.56-0.77, p < 0.001) women had better OS. In subgroup analysis, similar findings were noted among those with RS < 26, while only API women were associated with improved OS among others with RS ≥ 26. CONCLUSION To our knowledge, this is the largest study using nationwide oncology database to suggest that Black women were associated with higher RS, while HW and API women were not. It also suggested that Black women were associated with worse OS among those with RS < 26, while API women were associated with improved OS regardless of RS when compared to NHW women.
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- Jasmin Gill
- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, 460 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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Bellman P, Gonzalez-Lugo JD, Shahzad M, Amin MK, Khalid MF, Suleman N, Ahmed N, Singh AK, Yacoub A, Zhang D, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Successful treatment with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide in a VEXAS syndrome patient with associated myelodysplastic syndrome: a case report and systematic review. Front Oncol 2024; 14:1383730. [PMID: 38665946 PMCID: PMC11043578 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1383730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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Vacuoles, E1 syndrome, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic (VEXAS) syndrome is a chronic inflammatory disorder that affects various organ systems. It is associated with hematologic malignancies and is generally refractory to therapies. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) may be considered for selected patients. We report a case wherein systemic and hematological manifestations completely resolved in a patient with VEXAS and associated myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), following the administration of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide as part of the preparation for allo-HSCT. We conducted a systematic literature review and included 86 patients with VEXAS syndrome and associated MDS. Most cases presented with musculoskeletal involvement (71%) and anemia (72%) with lower-risk MDS. Most patients responded to corticosteroids (CS) but had a recurrence of symptoms with CS taper and were refractory to other immunosuppressive agents. Hypomethylating agents and Janus kinase inhibitors achieved a complete response in some cases. Further research is needed to develop more effective treatment strategies.
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- Polina Bellman
- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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Gogoi BB, Yeasin M, Paul RK, Deka D, Malakar H, Saikia J, Rahman FH, Maiti CS, Sarkar A, Handique JG, Kanrar B, Singh AK, Karak T. Pollution indices of selected metals in tea (Camellia sinensis L.) growing soils of the Upper Assam region divulge a non-trifling menace of National Highway. Sci Total Environ 2024; 920:170737. [PMID: 38340860 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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The study investigated the influence of a National Highway (NH) traversing tea estates (TEs) on heavy metal (HM) contamination in the top soils of Upper Assam, India. The dispersion and accumulation of six HMs, viz. cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn), within tea-growing soils were assessed using diverse indices: contamination factor (CF), degree of contamination (DC), enrichment factor (EF), geo-accumulation index (Igeo), modified degree of contamination (MDC), Nemerow pollution index (PINemerow), pollution load index (PLI), potential ecological risk factor (Eri), and potential ecological risk index (RI). The order of HM prevalence was Fe > Mn > Zn > Ni > Cu > Cd. Elevated Cd levels near the NH prompted immediate attention, while Cd and Zn showed moderate pollution in CF, EF, and RI. The remaining metals posed minimal individual risk (Eri< 40), resulting in an overall contamination range of "nil to shallow," signifying slight contamination from the studied metals. From MDC values for investigated metals, it was found to be "zero to very low degree of contamination" at all locations except the vicinity of NH. Soil pollution, as determined by PLI, indicated unpolluted soils in both districts, yet PINemerow values indicated slight pollution. The statistical analysis revealed that there is a significant decrease in most of the indices of HM as the distance from NH increases. The application of multivariate statistical techniques namely Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis showed the presence of three distinct homogenous groups of distances based on different indices. This investigation underscores NH-associated anthropogenic effects on TE soil quality due to HM deposition, warranting proactive mitigation measures.
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- Bidyot Bikash Gogoi
- Upper Assam Advisory Centre, Tea Research Association, Dikom, 786101 Dibrugarh, Assam, India; Department of Chemistry, D.H.S.K. College, Dibrugarh 786001, Assam, India; Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh 786004, Assam, India
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- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- North Bank Advisory Centre, Tea Research Association, Thakurbari 784 503, Assam, India
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- Tea Research Association, Tocklai Tea Research Institute, Cinnamara, 785008 Jorhat, Assam, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh 786004, Assam, India
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- ICAR-NBSS and LUP, Regional Center Kolkata, Block DK, Sector II, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700091, India
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- Department of Horticulture, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus, Medziphema 797106, Nagaland, India
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- Department of Horticulture, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus, Medziphema 797106, Nagaland, India
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- TLabs, Tea Research Association, Kolkata 700 016, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Soil Science, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus, Medziphema 797106, Nagaland, India
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- Department of Soil Science, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus, Medziphema 797106, Nagaland, India.
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Mushtaq MU, Shahzad M, Amin MK, Lutfi F, DeJarnette S, Al-Ramahi JS, Li K, Ahmed N, Bansal R, Abdelhakim H, Shune L, Abdallah AO, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP, Singh AK. Outcomes with HLA-matched unrelated donor versus haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation. Leuk Lymphoma 2024; 65:493-502. [PMID: 38164945 DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2023.2300708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/25/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
Abstract
We investigated the outcomes after adult haploidentical (haplo) and matched unrelated donor (MUD) hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in a single-center study (n = 452) including 276 MUD and 176 haplo transplants. Myeloablative (37%) and reduced-intensity conditioning (63%) were performed. Graft sources included peripheral blood (50%) and bone marrow (50%). GVHD prophylaxis included tacrolimus/methotrexate (53%) and post-transplant cyclophosphamide-based (47%). In MUD versus haplo HCT recipients, a similar incidence of neutrophil engraftment (18 vs 17 days, p = 0.895), grade II-IV acute GVHD (51% vs 50%, p = 0.773), relapse (26% vs 23%, p = 0.578), non-relapse mortality (22% vs 23%, p = 0.817), 1-year disease-free survival (62% vs 63%. p = 0.921), and 1-year overall survival (73% vs 74%, p = 0.744) were observed. Earlier platelet engraftment (22 vs 27 days, p < 0.001) and higher chronic GVHD (45% vs 35%, p = 0.040) were noted in MUD as compared to haplo HCT. Allogeneic transplantation should be done promptly whenever indicated, utilizing either matched unrelated or haploidentical donors.
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- Muhammad Umair Mushtaq
- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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Shahzad M, Iqbal Q, Tariq E, Ammad-Ud-Din M, Butt A, Mushtaq AH, Ali F, Chaudhary SG, Anwar I, Gonzalez-Lugo JD, Abdelhakim H, Ahmed N, Hematti P, Singh AK, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Outcomes with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in TP53-mutated myelodysplastic syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2024; 196:104310. [PMID: 38423375 DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2024.104310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
Abstract
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Allo-HSCT) in TP53-mutated myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). A literature search was performed on PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, and Clinicaltrials.gov. After screening 626 articles, eight studies were included. Data were extracted following the PRISMA guidelines and analyzed using the meta-package by Schwarzer et al. We analyzed 540 patients. The pooled median 3 (1-5) year overall survival was 21% (95% CI 0.08-0.37, I2=91%, n=540). The pooled relapse rate was 58.9% (95% CI 0.38-0.77, I2=93%, n=487) at a median of 1.75 (1-3) years. The pooled 4-year progression- free survival was 34.8% (95% CI 0.15-0.57, I2=72%, n=105). Outcomes of Allo-HSCT for TP53-mutated MDS patients remain poor, with 21% OS at three years; however, Allo-HSCT confers a survival advantage as compared to non-transplant palliative therapies. Our findings suggest the need to explore novel therapeutic agents in prospective clinical trials.
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- Moazzam Shahzad
- Department of Hematology/Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Hematology/Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
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Iovoli AJ, Smith K, Yu H, Kluczynski MA, Jungquist CR, Ray AD, Farrugia MK, Gu F, Singh AK. Association of Insomnia and Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Worse Oral Mucositis and Quality of Life in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy. Cancers (Basel) 2024; 16:1335. [PMID: 38611012 PMCID: PMC11011024 DOI: 10.3390/cancers16071335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) undergoing radiation therapy (RT) often experience sleep disturbances that may contribute to oral mucositis (OM) and quality of life (QOL). METHODS Patients with HNC treated with RT at a single institution were examined. Sleep questionnaires were given on the first day of RT to assess for insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Patient-reported QOL and oral mucositis were assessed during RT. Associations between insomnia and OSA with QOL were assessed using the Mann-Whitney U test. Linear mixed models assessed associations with OM. RESULTS Among 87 patients, 34 patients (39%) had subthreshold or greater insomnia and 47 patients (54%) screened positive for OSA. Upon RT completion, patients with subthreshold or greater insomnia had worse physical function (p = 0.005), fatigue (p = 0.01), insomnia (p < 0.001), and sticky saliva (p = 0.002). Patients screening positive for OSA had worse physical function (p = 0.01), sticky saliva (p = 0.02), fatigue (p = 0.007), insomnia (p = 0.009), and pain (p = 0.005). Upon linear mixed model evaluation, subthreshold or greater insomnia (p = 0.01) and positive OSA screen (p = 0.002) were associated with worse OM. CONCLUSION Insomnia and OSA are highly prevalent in patients with HNC undergoing RT. These sleep disturbances are associated with worse QOL and OM during treatment.
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- Austin J. Iovoli
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (A.J.I.); (K.S.); (M.K.F.)
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (A.J.I.); (K.S.); (M.K.F.)
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- Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA;
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- Department of Clinical Research Services, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA;
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- School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, 312 Wende Hall, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA;
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- Department of Cancer Prevention & Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA;
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (A.J.I.); (K.S.); (M.K.F.)
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- CORDS Oncology, Bristol Myers Squibb, 3401 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA;
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (A.J.I.); (K.S.); (M.K.F.)
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Shahzad M, Khalid MF, Amin MK, Ammad-Ud-Din M, Ilyas U, Mushtaq AH, Butt A, Anwar I, Chaudhary SG, Ahmed N, Shune L, Singh AK, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Use of Endpoints in Phase III Randomized Controlled Trials for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Over the Last 15 Years: A Systematic Review. Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther 2024; 17:88-94. [PMID: 38560970 DOI: 10.56875/2589-0646.1118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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This systematic review aimed to evaluate the proportion of primary and secondary endpoints in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) phase III randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and analyze their trends in time and study sponsorship status. The Chi-square test and logistic regression analyses were performed using SPSS version 28. A total of 147 HSCT phase III RCTs from 2006 to 2021 reported 197 primary and 600 secondary endpoints. Overall survival (OS, 17 %), progression-free survival (PFS, 15 %), graft versus host disease (GVHD, 8 %), event-free survival (EFS, 8 %), and organ function (8 %) were the most common primary endpoints. GVHD (12.3 %, n = 74), safety/toxicity/adverse events (11.8 %, n = 71), OS (11.5 %, n = 69), PFS (9.3 %, n = 56), and relapse rate (RR; 7.5 %, n = 45) were the most common secondary endpoints during 2006-2021. After 2013, an increase was noted in the use of PFS as a primary endpoint (12 %-18 %, p = 0.196), while the use of OS as a primary endpoint declined (20 %-13 %, p = 0.170). An increase was observed in using the secondary endpoints RR (5 %-10 %, p = 0.047) and NRM (3 %-6 %, p = 0.047). EFS was used more (14 % vs. 4 %, p = 0.012) than ORR (11 % vs. 2 %, p = 0.003) as a primary endpoint in pharmaceutical-compared to non-pharmaceutical-sponsored studies. As secondary endpoints, the use of EFS (4 % vs. 1 %, p = 0.013) and ORR (4 % vs. 1 %, p = 0.028) was higher, whereas that of organ systems/functions (1.5 % vs. 5.5 %, p = 0.022) and GVHD (6.5 % vs. 15 %, p = 0.002) was lower in pharmaceutical-compared to non-pharmaceutical sponsored studies. GVHD-free relapse-free survival was reported as a primary endpoint in 2 % of studies, while only 5 % reported quality of life as a secondary endpoint. We described commonly used endpoints in HSCT phase III RCTs and patterns in their use over time by funding source and study intervention category.
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- Moazzam Shahzad
- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, H. Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, H. Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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McGuirk M, Shahzad M, Amin MK, Khan MA, Bellman P, Mudaranthakam DP, DeJarnette S, Lutfi F, Ahmed N, Bansal R, Abdelhakim H, Gorsline C, Shoemaker DM, Abdallah AO, Shune L, Abhyankar SH, Singh AK, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Predictors of cytomegalovirus reactivation after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation: Insights from a real-world experience. Transpl Immunol 2024; 84:102039. [PMID: 38513813 DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2024.102039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 03/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate factors associated with cytomegalovirus (CMV) viremia and CMV disease and its impact on post-transplant outcomes including overall survival (OS) following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Allo-SCT). METHODS We conducted a single-center retrospective study including 452 Allo-SCT recipients (matched unrelated donor, MUD 61%; haploidentical, haplo 39%) from 2016 to 2021. Data were analyzed using SPSS v28. Descriptive (chi-square and t-test), Kaplan-Meier and regression analyses were conducted. RESULTS The median age was 57 years. Sixty-one percent were males and 84.3% were Caucasians. CMV serostatus was positive in 59.1% of recipients. The median follow-up was 24.4 months. CMV viremia and CMV disease were observed in 181 (40%) and 32 (7%) patients, respectively. Among CMV seropositive recipients, 65% developed CMV viremia and 11% were noted to have CMV disease compared to 4% and 1% in seronegative recipients, respectively (p < 0.001). Patients with CMV disease had significantly lower OS than those without CMV disease (median 14.1 months vs. not reached, p = 0.024); however, OS was not associated with CMV viremia (median not reached in both groups, p = 0.640). Letermovir prophylaxis was used in 66% (n = 176/267) of CMV seropositive recipients, but no impact was observed on the incidence of CMV viremia or CMV disease and OS. CONCLUSIONS CMV disease leads to significantly inferior survival after an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Recipient CMV seropositive status was associated with the risk of CMV viremia and CMV disease, and this was not abrogated with the use of Letermovir prophylaxis.
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- Matthew McGuirk
- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America.
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Levis MJ, Hamadani M, Logan B, Jones RJ, Singh AK, Litzow M, Wingard JR, Papadopoulos EB, Perl AE, Soiffer RJ, Ustun C, Ueda Oshima M, Uy GL, Waller EK, Vasu S, Solh M, Mishra A, Muffly L, Kim HJ, Mikesch JH, Najima Y, Onozawa M, Thomson K, Nagler A, Wei AH, Marcucci G, Geller NL, Hasabou N, Delgado D, Rosales M, Hill J, Gill SC, Nuthethi R, King D, Wittsack H, Mendizabal A, Devine SM, Horowitz MM, Chen YB. Gilteritinib as Post-Transplant Maintenance for Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Internal Tandem Duplication Mutation of FLT3. J Clin Oncol 2024:JCO2302474. [PMID: 38471061 DOI: 10.1200/jco.23.02474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2023] [Revised: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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PURPOSE Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) improves outcomes for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) harboring an internal tandem duplication mutation of FLT3 (FLT3-ITD) AML. These patients are routinely treated with a FLT3 inhibitor after HCT, but there is limited evidence to support this. Accordingly, we conducted a randomized trial of post-HCT maintenance with the FLT3 inhibitor gilteritinib (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02997202) to determine if all such patients benefit or if detection of measurable residual disease (MRD) could identify those who might benefit. METHODS Adults with FLT3-ITD AML in first remission underwent HCT and were randomly assigned to placebo or 120 mg once daily gilteritinib for 24 months after HCT. The primary end point was relapse-free survival (RFS). Secondary end points included overall survival (OS) and the effect of MRD pre- and post-HCT on RFS and OS. RESULTS Three hundred fifty-six participants were randomly assigned post-HCT to receive gilteritinib or placebo. Although RFS was higher in the gilteritinib arm, the difference was not statistically significant (hazard ratio [HR], 0.679 [95% CI, 0.459 to 1.005]; two-sided P = .0518). However, 50.5% of participants had MRD detectable pre- or post-HCT, and, in a prespecified subgroup analysis, gilteritinib was beneficial in this population (HR, 0.515 [95% CI, 0.316 to 0.838]; P = .0065). Those without detectable MRD showed no benefit (HR, 1.213 [95% CI, 0.616 to 2.387]; P = .575). CONCLUSION Although the overall improvement in RFS was not statistically significant, RFS was higher for participants with detectable FLT3-ITD MRD pre- or post-HCT who received gilteritinib treatment. To our knowledge, these data are among the first to support the effectiveness of MRD-based post-HCT therapy.
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- CIBMTR/Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Northside Hospital Cancer Institute, Atlanta, GA
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- Catholic Hematology Hospital, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center, Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Walter and Eliza Hill Institute of Medical Research and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Schrand TV, Iovoli AJ, Almeida ND, Yu H, Malik N, Farrugia M, Singh AK. Differences between Survival Rates and Patterns of Failure of Patients with Lung Adenocarcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma Who Received Single-Fraction Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. Cancers (Basel) 2024; 16:755. [PMID: 38398146 PMCID: PMC10886818 DOI: 10.3390/cancers16040755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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We investigated the survival and patterns of failure in adenocarcinoma (ADC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with single-fraction stereotactic body radiation therapy (SF-SBRT) of 27-34 Gray. A single-institution retrospective review of patients with biopsy-proven early stage ADC or SCC undergoing definitive SF-SBRT between September 2008 and February 2023 was performed. The primary outcomes were overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). The secondary outcomes included local failure (LF), nodal failure (NF), and distant failure (DF). Of 292 eligible patients 174 had adenocarcinoma and 118 had squamous cell carcinoma. There was no significant change in any outcome except distant failure. Patients with ADC were significantly more likely to experience distant failure than patients with SCC (p = 0.0081). In conclusion, while SF-SBRT produced similar LF, NF, DFS, and OS, the higher rate of distant failure in ADC patients suggests that ongoing trials of SBRT and systemic therapy combinations should report their outcomes by histology.
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- Tyler V. Schrand
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (T.V.S.); (A.J.I.); (N.D.A.); (N.M.); (M.F.)
- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (T.V.S.); (A.J.I.); (N.D.A.); (N.M.); (M.F.)
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (T.V.S.); (A.J.I.); (N.D.A.); (N.M.); (M.F.)
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA;
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (T.V.S.); (A.J.I.); (N.D.A.); (N.M.); (M.F.)
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (T.V.S.); (A.J.I.); (N.D.A.); (N.M.); (M.F.)
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; (T.V.S.); (A.J.I.); (N.D.A.); (N.M.); (M.F.)
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Shah M, Noronha V, Patil V, Menon N, Singh AK, Shah A, Kumar P, Roychoudhary O, Peelay Z, Janu A, Purandare N, Chakrabarty N, Patil V, Kaushal R, Shetty O, Pai T, Chandrani P, Chougule A, Prabhash K. The Role of Systemic Therapy in Patients with Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer and a Poor Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2024; 36:128-129. [PMID: 38097463 DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2023.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2023] [Revised: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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- M Shah
- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Biostatistics, Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Radiodiagnosis, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Radiodiagnosis, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Radiodiagnosis, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology Molecular Laboratory, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Maze D, Arcasoy MO, Henrie R, Cerquozzi S, Kamble R, Al-Hadidi S, Yacoub A, Singh AK, Elsawy M, Sirhan S, Smith E, Marcoux C, Viswabandya A, Daly A, Sibai H, McNamara C, Shi Y, Xu W, Lajkosz K, Foltz L, Gupta V. Upfront allogeneic transplantation versus JAK inhibitor therapy for patients with myelofibrosis: a North American collaborative study. Bone Marrow Transplant 2024; 59:196-202. [PMID: 37938736 PMCID: PMC10849956 DOI: 10.1038/s41409-023-02146-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
Abstract
Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is the only curative therapy for myelofibrosis (MF) and is recommended for patients with higher risk disease. However, there is a risk of early mortality, and optimal timing is unknown. JAK inhibitor (JAKi) therapy may offer durable improvement in symptoms, splenomegaly and quality of life. The aim of this multicentre, retrospective observational study was to compare outcomes of patients aged 70 years or below with MF in chronic phase who received upfront JAKi therapy vs. upfront HCT in dynamic international prognostic scoring system (DIPSS)-stratified categories. For the whole study cohort, median overall survival (OS) was longer for patients who received a JAKi vs. upfront HCT, 69 (95% CI 57-89) vs. 42 (95% CI 20-not reached, NR) months, respectively (p = 0.01). In patients with intermediate-2 and high-risk disease, median OS was 55 (95% CI 36-73) months with JAKi vs. 36 (95% CI 20-NR) months for HCT (p = 0.27). An upfront HCT strategy was associated with early mortality and difference in median OS was not observed in any risk group by 5 years of follow-up. Within the limitations of a retrospective observational study, we did not observe any benefit of a universal upfront HCT approach for higher-risk MF.
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- Dawn Maze
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Hematology, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta Health Service Calgary Zone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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- Myeloma Section, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Hematology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta Health Service Calgary Zone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Hematology, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Maze D, Arcasoy MO, Henrie R, Cerquozzi S, Kamble R, Al-Hadidi S, Yacoub A, Singh AK, Elsawy M, Sirhan S, Smith E, Marcoux C, Viswabandya A, Daly A, Sibai H, McNamara C, Shi Y, Xu W, Lajkosz K, Foltz L, Gupta V. Correction: Upfront allogeneic transplantation versus JAK inhibitor therapy for patients with myelofibrosis: a North American collaborative study. Bone Marrow Transplant 2024; 59:295. [PMID: 38279008 PMCID: PMC10849954 DOI: 10.1038/s41409-023-02194-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2024]
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- Dawn Maze
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Hematology, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta Health Service Calgary Zone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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- Myeloma Section, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Hematology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta Health Service Calgary Zone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Hematology, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Yadav LP, Gangadhara K, Apparao VV, Yadav V, Mishra DS, Singh AK, Rane J, Kaushik P, Janani P, Kumar R, Verma AK, Kumar S, Malhotra SK, Shekhawat N. Genetic diversity, morphological traits, quality traits and antioxidants potentiality of Coccinia grandis germplasm under rainfed semi-arid region. Sci Rep 2024; 14:868. [PMID: 38195737 PMCID: PMC10776759 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49091-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024] Open
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The present study was conducted to evaluate the genetic variability for morphological and qualitative traits of Coccinia for development of trait specific lines at ICAR-Central Horticultural Experiment Station (CIAH-RS), Panchmahals (Godhra), Gujarat during 2020-2022. In this study, we evaluated 26 gynoecious accessions to assess the genetic divergence through principal component and cluster analysis. The experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design with three replications under rainfed semi-arid conditions. High values of PCV and GCV were observed for variables such as NFFP (25.13 and 22.20), PL (23.14 and 20.69), FD (24.01 and 21.46), AFW (22.98 and 20.13), NFPY (26.38 and 24.40), FYP (37.57 and 31.29), FY (35.55 and 33.20), AsC (28.65 and 27.73), Ac (24.32 and 21.06), TSS (37.23 and 35.94), DPPHL (20.71 and 20.38), FRAPL (21.08 and 20.92), TPF(20.81 and 20.45) respectively. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance as per cent of mean was observed for vine length (VL), internodal length (IL), number of female flowers per plant (NFFP), fruit length (FL), peduncle length (PL), fruit diameter (FD), average fruit weight (AFW), number of fruit per plant per year (NFPY), fruit yield per plant (FYP), fruit yield (FY), ascorbic acid (AsC), acidity (Ac), total soluble solids (TSS), total phenols in leaves TPL), total flavonoids in leaves TFL, CUPRAC in leaves (CUPRACL), DPPH in leaves (DPPHL), FRAP in leaves (FRAPL), Total phenols in fruits (TPF), Total flavonoids in fruits (TFF), CUPRAC in fruits (CUPRACF) and DPPH in fruits (DPPHF). The FYP exhibited a significant positive correlation with variables like VL (0.6833), IL (0.2991), NFFP (0.8107), FD (0.5245), AFW (0.6766), NFPY (0.7659), ASC (0.4611), TSS (0.5004) and TPF (0.4281). The estimates of genetic parameters revealed scope for further improvement of fruit yield by selection. Of the eight principal components, PC-I through PC-VIII had eigen values greater than 1 and it accounts 85.02% of the total variation for 26 gynoecious accessions of Ivy gourd. The eigen values of PC-I comprised 5.775% of total variation followed by PC-II (4.250%), PC-III (3.175%), PC-IV (2.588%), PC-V (1.828%), PC-VI (1.447%), PC-VII (1.179%) and PC-VIII (1.013%).The cluster VI and cluster I having highest mean values for most of traits under study. Thus, genotypes from the distinct cluster like cluster VI and I for should be used for selection of parents and varietal improvement for further breeding programme in ivy gourd.
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- Lalu Prasad Yadav
- ICAR-Central Horicultulal Experiment Station (CIAH RS), Godhra, 389340, Gujarat, India.
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- ICAR-Central Horicultulal Experiment Station (CIAH RS), Godhra, 389340, Gujarat, India
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- ICAR-Central Horicultulal Experiment Station (CIAH RS), Godhra, 389340, Gujarat, India
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- ICAR-Central Horicultulal Experiment Station (CIAH RS), Godhra, 389340, Gujarat, India
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- ICAR-Central Horicultulal Experiment Station (CIAH RS), Godhra, 389340, Gujarat, India
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- ICAR-Central Horicultulal Experiment Station (CIAH RS), Godhra, 389340, Gujarat, India
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- ICAR-Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Beechwal, Bikaner, 334006, Rajasthan, India
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- Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125 004, Haryana, India
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- ICAR-Central Potato Research Station, Shillong, 793 009, Meghalaya, India
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- ICAR-Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Beechwal, Bikaner, 334006, Rajasthan, India
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- ICAR-Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Beechwal, Bikaner, 334006, Rajasthan, India
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- Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125 004, Haryana, India
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- ICAR-Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture, Pusa, 110012, New Delhi, India
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- ICAR-NBPGR Regional Station Jodhpur, C/o CAZRI, Jodhpur, 342003, Rajasthan, India
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Iovoli AJ, Yu H, Advani PG, Turecki L, Malhotra HK, Malik NK, Fung-Kee-Fung S, Singh AK, Farrugia MK. Sinoatrial Node Dose Is Associated With Worse Survival in Patients Undergoing Definitive Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Central Lung Cancers. Pract Radiat Oncol 2024; 14:e40-e47. [PMID: 37804882 DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2023.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/09/2023]
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PURPOSE Our purpose was to evaluate the clinical consequences of sinoatrial node (SAN) and atrioventricular node (AVN) irradiation in patients undergoing stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for central non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumors. METHODS AND MATERIALS A single-institutional retrospective review of patients with primary NSCLC undergoing definitive SBRT for centrally located thoracic tumors from February 2007 to December 2021 was performed. The SAN and AVN were contoured in accordance with a published contouring atlas, and the maximum dose (Dmax) and mean dose (Dmean) for each structure were calculated. Sequential log rank testing between the 50th and 90th percentiles was used to identify potential cutoff values for the corresponding dosimetric parameters and overall survival. RESULTS Among 93 eligible patients, the median age was 72.5 years (IQR, 66.6-78.3), and median follow-up was 32.4 months (IQR, 13.0-49.6). The median SAN Dmax and Dmean were 95 cGy (range, 9-5394) and 58 cGy (range, 7-3168), respectively. The median AVN Dmax and Dmean were 45 cGy (range, 4-2121) and 34 cGy (range, 3-1667), respectively. Candidate cutoff values for SAN Dmax and Dmean were 1309 and 836 cGy, respectively. No associations between AVN parameters and survival outcomes were identified. Upon multivariate Cox regression, the SAN Dmax cutoff (hazard ratio [HR], 2.03 [1.09-3.79]; P = .026) and SAN Dmean cutoff (HR, 2.22 [1.20-4.12]; P = .011) were significantly associated with overall survival. For noncancer-associated survival, the SAN Dmax cutoff trended toward significance (HR, 2.02 [0.89-4.57]; P = .092), and the SAN Dmean cutoff remained significantly associated (HR, 2.34 [1.05-5.18]; P = .037). CONCLUSIONS For patients undergoing SBRT for NSCLC, SAN Dmax and Dmean were significantly associated with worse overall survival using cut-off values of 1309 and 836 cGy, respectively. Further studies examining the effect of SAN irradiation during SBRT are warranted.
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- Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
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- Internal Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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Yadav S, Singh AK, Selvaraj RK, Applegate TJ, Bhattacharya P, Shinall SB, Fenn LS, Shanmugasundaram R, Kim WK. Research Note: Effect of dietary xylo-oligosaccharide on growth performance, intestinal histomorphology, and specific cecal bacteria in broiler chickens. Poult Sci 2024; 103:103189. [PMID: 37939588 PMCID: PMC10665916 DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.103189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
Abstract
This study was conducted to evaluate the prebiotic effect of xylo-oligosaccharide (XOS) supplemented in a corn-soybean meal (SBM) based conventional diet on growth performance, intestinal histomorphology, and quantification of specific bacteria in the ceca of broilers. A total of 240 d of hatch Cobb 500 male broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 4 dietary treatments (corn-SBM-based control diet) containing 0, 0.05, 0.1, and 0.2% XOS. The broilers were raised for 21 d in 6 replicate cages, each containing 10 birds. Growth performance parameters were obtained weekly. Additionally, small intestinal tissues were collected to evaluate histomorphometry and whole ceca were collected to quantify bacterial populations on D21. The results showed that inclusion of XOS has similar body weight (BW), body weight gain (BWG), feed intake (FI), and feed conversion ratio (FCR) as the control group during the 21-day study. The results further indicate a tendency for the jejunum villus to crypt ratio (VH:CD) to increase in birds given 0.05 and 0.2% XOS (P = 0.08). Cecal bacteria quantification showed a linear increase in Bifidobacterium with increasing XOS levels (P < 0.0001) and a decrease Clostridium perfringens levels compared to birds fed the control diet (P < 0.0001). However, there were no differences in the total counts of Lactobacillus and E. coli. Together these results showed that while there were no differences in growth parameters up to 21 d, the histomorphology findings and the increase in Bifidobacterium, along with the reduction in C. perfringens observed in the XOS groups, suggest a beneficial impact of XOS inclusion on gut health. Further research with longer feeding periods and higher XOS levels should be conducted to explore potential positive effects on both growth and gut health parameters.
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- S Yadav
- Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Rayonier Advanced Materials, Inc., Jesup, GA 31545, USA
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- Rayonier Advanced Materials, Inc., Jesup, GA 31545, USA
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- Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Athens, GA 30605, USA
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- Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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Al-Ramahi JS, Shahzad M, Nguyen A, Li K, Amin MK, Ahmed N, Lutfi F, DeJarnette S, Chaudhary SG, Bansal R, Abdelhakim H, Shune L, Abdallah AO, Singh AK, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Favorable outcomes following CD34-selected stem cell boost for poor graft function after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 2024; 59:134-137. [PMID: 37833526 DOI: 10.1038/s41409-023-02125-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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- Joe S Al-Ramahi
- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
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Sahu H, Patil VM, Menon N, Singh AK, Biswas S, Janu A, Chakraborty N, Prabhash K, Noronha V. Infections in Patients with Advanced-stage Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-mutant Lung Cancer - a Post-hoc Analysis of a Randomised Trial. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2023; 35:811-812. [PMID: 37838606 DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2023.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/16/2023]
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- H Sahu
- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Radiology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Iovoli AJ, Prasad S, Ma SJ, Fekrmandi F, Malik NK, Fung-Kee-Fung S, Farrugia MK, Singh AK. Long-Term Survival and Failure Outcomes of Single-Fraction Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Early Stage NSCLC. JTO Clin Res Rep 2023; 4:100598. [PMID: 38124792 PMCID: PMC10730364 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtocrr.2023.100598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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Introduction This study aims to report our 13-year institutional experience with single-fraction stereotactic body radiation therapy (SF-SBRT) for early stage NSCLC. Methods A single-institutional retrospective review of patients with biopsy-proven peripheral cT1-2N0M0 NSCLC undergoing definitive SF-SBRT between September 2008 and May 2022 was performed. All patients were treated to 27 Gy with heterogeneity corrections or 30 Gy without. Primary outcomes were overall survival and progression-free survival. Secondary outcomes included local failure, nodal failure, distant failure, and second primary lung cancer. Results Among 263 eligible patients, the median age was 76 years (interquartile range [IQR]: 70-81 y) and median follow-up time was 27.2 months (IQR: 14.25-44.9 mo). Median tumor size was 1.9 cm (IQR: 1.4-2.6 cm), and 224 (85%) tumors were T1. There were 92 patients (35%) alive at the time of analysis with a median follow-up of 34.0 months (IQR: 16.6-50.0 mo). Two- and five-year overall survival was 65% and 26%, respectively. A total of 74 patients (28%) developed disease progression. Rates of five-year local failure, nodal failure, distant failure, and second primary lung cancer were 12.7%, 14.7%, 23.5%, and 12.0%, respectively. Conclusions Consistent with multiple prospective randomized trials, in a large real-world retrospective cohort, SF-SBRT for peripheral early stage NSCLC was an effective treatment approach.
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- Austin J. Iovoli
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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Al-Ramahi JS, Shahzad M, Li K, DeJarnette S, Chaudhary SG, Lutfi F, Ahmed N, Balusu R, Bansal R, Abdelhakim H, Shune L, Singh AK, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic: outcomes after SARS-CoV-2 infection in hematopoietic cell transplant and cell therapy recipients. Leuk Lymphoma 2023; 64:1981-1991. [PMID: 37574842 DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2023.2243355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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We investigated the outcomes after Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) in hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) or chimeric antigen receptor-T cell (CART) therapy recipients in a single-centre study including all (n = 261)HCT/CART recipients (allogeneic-HCT 49%, autologous-HCT 40%, CART 11%). The median age was 60 (22-80) years. COVID severity was mild (74%), moderate (11%), and severe/critical (16%) with a mortality rate of 7% and a median duration of infection of 5.7 weeks. Significant predictors of COVID severe disease or mortality included concurrent infection (HR 14.9, 95% CI 2.2-5.6) and immunosuppressive therapy (OR 4.8, 95% CI 1.2-3.4).HCT/CART recipients have a higher risk of mortality with COVID and warrant vigilant interventions.
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- Joe S Al-Ramahi
- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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Biswas B, Thakur K, Pote TD, Sharma KD, Krishnan SG, Singh AK, Sharma TR, Rathour R. Genetic and molecular analysis of leaf blast resistance in Tetep derived line RIL4 and its relationship to genes at Pita/Pita 2 locus. Sci Rep 2023; 13:18683. [PMID: 37907574 PMCID: PMC10618204 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46070-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023] Open
Abstract
The Vietnamese indica landrace 'Tetep' is known worldwide for its durable and broad spectrum-resistance to blast. We performed genetic and molecular analyses of leaf blast resistance in a Tetep derived recombinant inbred line 'RIL4' which is resistant to both leaf and neck blast. Phenotypic analysis of segregating F2 progenies suggested that leaf blast resistance in RIL4 was controlled by a dominant gene tentatively designated as Pi-l(t). The gene was mapped to a 2.4 cm region close to the centromere of chromosome 12. The search for the gene content in the equivalent genomic region of reference cv. Nipponbare revealed the presence of five NBS-LRR genes, two of which corresponded to the alleles of Pita and Pi67 genes previously identified from Tetep. The two other genes, LOC_Os12g17090, and LOC_Os12g17490 represented the homologs of stripe rust resistance gene Yr10. The allelic tests with Pita2 and Pi67 lines suggested that the leaf blast resistance gene in RIL4 is either allelic or tightly linked to these genes. The genomic position of the leaf blast resistance gene in RIL4 perfectly coincided with the genomic position of a neck blast resistance gene Pb2 previously identified from this line suggesting that the same gene confers resistance to leaf and neck blast. The present results were discussed in juxtaposition with past studies on the genes of Pita/Pita2 resistance gene complex.
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- B Biswas
- CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, Palampur, 176062, India
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- College of Horticulture and Forestry, Dr YSP University of Horticulture and Forestry, Thunag, 175048, India
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- CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, Palampur, 176062, India
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- CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, Palampur, 176062, India
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- Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, 110001, India
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- CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, Palampur, 176062, India.
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Iovoli AJ, Turecki L, Qiu ML, Khan M, Smith K, Yu H, Ma SJ, Farrugia MK, Singh AK. Severe Oral Mucositis After Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2337265. [PMID: 37819659 PMCID: PMC10568356 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.37265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023] Open
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Importance Oral mucositis (OM) is a common and debilitating adverse effect observed in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) receiving radiation therapy (RT). Previous studies examining associations between OM and clinical outcomes were performed in the era of 3-dimensional conformal RT planning with low rates of concurrent chemotherapy, and thus may not reflect current practice. Objective To prospectively assess patient-reported OM and identify its associations with clinical outcomes and quality of life. Design, Setting, and Participants This cohort study performed at a single institution included 702 consecutive patients who underwent definitive or adjuvant intensity-modulated RT (IMRT) for primary HNC from February 9, 2015, to May 27, 2022. Data were analyzed from November 28, 2022, to August 18, 2023. Main Outcomes and Measures Severity of OM was assessed based on highest reported mouth and throat soreness (MTS) score during radiotherapy according to the Oral Mucositis Weekly Questionnaire-Head and Neck Cancer survey, which was administered weekly during IMRT. Linear mixed models were used to compare mean MTS scores grouped by disease site and chemotherapy regimen. Fisher exact tests and 1-way analysis of variance tests were performed to identify associations between severity of OM and clinical outcomes. Results Among 576 eligible patients, the median age was 62.5 (IQR, 56.3-69.1) years, and 451 patients (78.3%) were men. In terms of race and ethnicity, 6 patients (1.0%) were American Indian or Alaska Native; 2 (0.3%), Asian; 31 (5.4%), Black; 8 (1.4%), Hispanic or Latino; 509 (88.4%), White; and 28 (4.9%), unknown. The most common treatment site was oropharynx (268 [46.5%]), and most patients received concurrent chemotherapy (464 [80.6%]). By the end of treatment, 360 patients (62.5%) developed severe OM and 568 (98.6%) developed some degree of OM. Linear mixed models found no significant differences in OM between HNC disease sites. Groups with greater highest severity of OM reported had higher rates of measured outcomes (listed respectively by MTS score 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4): feeding tube placement (0%, 3.6% [2 of 56], 6.6% [10 of 152], 14.7% [40 of 272], and 21.6% [19 of 88]; P = .001), hospitalization (12.5% [1 of 8], 10.7% [6 of 56], 15.1% [23 of 152], 23.9% [65 of 272], and 28.4% [25 of 88]; P = .02), opiate use (0%, 19.6% [11 of 56], 42.8%[65 of 152], 61.4% [167 of 272], and 64.8% [57 of 88]; P < .001) and experienced greater weight loss (median, -0.7 [IQR, -1.7 to -0.4] kg; median, 3.9 [IQR, 1.1 to 6.1] kg; median, 5.0 [IQR, 2.2 to 7.7] kg; median, 4.7 [IQR, 2.1 to 7.7] kg; and median, 7.7 [IQR, 2.8 to 10.6] kg; P < .001). Conclusions and Relevance In this cohort study of patients with HNC, 62.5% developed severe OM. Higher severity of OM was associated with feeding tube placement, hospitalization, opiate use, and weight loss. Improvements in OM prevention and management are needed.
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- Austin J. Iovoli
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- currently a medical student at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- currently a medical student at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- currently a medical student at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
- currently affiliated with Department of Radiation Oncology, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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Iovoli AJ, Stephans KL, Bogart JA, Tian L, Videtic GM, Singh AK. Change in Quality of Life after Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) on a Prospective Trial of Peripheral Stage I or II Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Predicts Survival. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e26-e27. [PMID: 37784997 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) We previously reported the results of a randomized, multi-institutional phase II clinical trial evaluating one versus three fractions of SBRT for peripheral Stage I to II non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A secondary objective to compare quality of life (QOL) data and its association with survival outcomes is reported. MATERIALS/METHODS Medically inoperable patients with biopsy-proven peripheral T1-2N0M0 NSCLC were enrolled. Patients were randomized to 30 Gy in 1 fraction (arm 1) or 60 Gy in 3 fractions (arm 2) and stratified by performance status. QOL scores from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) and EORTC QLQ Lung Cancer-Specific Module (EORTC QLQ-LC13) questionnaires were required at baseline and each follow-up visit. Univariate models were generated to evaluate associations between QOL scores and survival with 95% confidence intervals (CI) calculated at each time point. RESULTS Among 98 patients enrolled (49 in each arm), 88 patients had data available for QOL analysis. At 6 month follow up, patients with stable or decreased (n = 49) versus those with increased global QOL scores (n = 27) had worse progression-free survival (HR [Hazards' Ratio] 2.32 [CI, 1.14-4.73], p = 0.021) and overall survival (HR 2.13 [CI, 1.01-4.51], p = 0.048). Similar results persisted at the 12 month follow up for progression-free survival (HR 3.90 [CI, 1.52-10.04], p = 0.016) and overall survival (HR 3.25 [CI, 1.25-8.43], p = 0.016). Median overall survival for patients with stable or decreased global QOL versus increased global QOL at 6 month follow up was 39.0 vs 60.3 months (p = 0.032). CONCLUSION Change in QOL is an early predictor of survival following SBRT for patients with peripheral early-stage NSCLC.
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- A J Iovoli
- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY
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- University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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Iovoli AJ, Yu H, Advani PG, Malhotra H, Fung-Kee-Fung S, Malik NK, Singh AK, Farrugia MK. Sinoatrial Node Irradiation in Patients Undergoing Definitive Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for Central Lung Cancers. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e27. [PMID: 37785020 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) The clinical consequences of sinoatrial node (SAN) and atrioventricular node (AVN) irradiation in patients undergoing thoracic stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) remains unclear. We examined the relationship between SAN and AVN dose with survival outcomes in patients with central non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumors. MATERIALS/METHODS A single-institutional retrospective review of patients with primary NSCLC undergoing definitive SBRT for centrally located tumors from February 2007 to December 2021 was performed. Central tumors were defined as within 2 cm of the proximal airway, mediastinum, great vessels, or spinal cord whereas ultracentral tumors were directly abutting any of the above structures. All patients underwent five-fraction SBRT to a total dose of 50 to 60 Gy. The SAN and AVN were contoured in accordance with a published contouring atlas and the maximum dose (Dmax) and mean dose (Dmean) for each structure were calculated. Sequential log rank testing between the 50th and 90th percentiles was used to identify potential cutoff values for the corresponding dosimetric parameters and non-cancer associated survival. RESULTS Among 93 eligible patients, the median age was 72.5 years (Inter-Quartile Range [IQR], 66.6-78.3), median follow up was 32.4 months (IQR, 13.0-49.6), and 48 patients were female (52%). There were 49 ultracentral tumors (53%) and the median planning target volume (PTV) was 31.0 cc (IQR, 18.0-53.3). The median SAN Dmax and Dmean were 95 cGy (IQR, 37-1,072) and 58 cGy (IQR, 26-641), respectively. The median AVN Dmax and Dmean were 45 cGy (IQR, 19-506) and 34 cGy (IQR, 15-160), respectively. Candidate cutoff values for SAN Dmax and Dmean were 1,309 cGy and 814 cGy, respectively. No significant cutoff values were identified for either AVN parameter. Kaplan-Meier analysis for the proposed SAN Dmean constraint was significantly associated with overall (p = 0.016) and non-cancer associated survival (p = 0.028). The SAN Dmax constraint was significantly associated with only overall survival (p = 0.029). In a multivariate model, the SAN Dmean cutoff significantly correlated with both overall (Hazard Ratio [HR] 2.1 [1.13-3.78], p = 0.019) and non-cancer associated survival (HR 2.39 [1.12-5.10], p = 0.025) whereas the SAN Dmax cutoff was only significantly associated with overall survival (HR 1.95 [1.03-3.68], p = 0.041). CONCLUSION SAN Dmax and Dmean were associated with significantly worse overall survival using cut-off values of 1,309 cGy and 814 cGy, respectively. SAN dose should be considered in radiation planning and further study on the consequence of SAN irradiation during SBRT is warranted.
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- A J Iovoli
- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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Garg A, Nathawat R, Singh AK, Dixit S, Acharya M. Corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) in eye bank. Indian J Ophthalmol 2023; 71:3128-3130. [PMID: 37602597 PMCID: PMC10565914 DOI: 10.4103/ijo.ijo_1994_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
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This case series highlights the challenges in eye banking and the importance of a quality assurance program. Three cases triggered corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to improve the processes. Case 1 emphasized training to prevent retrieval failures. Case 2 stressed the need for blood samples and comprehensive documentation. In Case 3, mishandling led to policy revisions and staff training. CAPA involved identifying concerns, root cause analysis, action plans, implementation, checks, and closure. Errors can occur in man, machinery, process, and policies. Continuous CAPA ensures continuous quality improvement and safe corneal tissue transplantation, benefiting patients in need.
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- Aastha Garg
- Department of Cornea and Anterior Segment, Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Eye Bank, Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Quality Control, Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Eye Bank, Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Cornea and Anterior Segment, Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India
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Giap F, Ma SJ, Oladeru OT, Hong YR, Yu B, Mailhot Vega RB, Brooks ED, Singh AK, Okunieff PG, Mendenhall NP, Bradley JA. Palliative care utilization and racial and ethnic disparities among women with de novo metastatic breast cancer in the United States. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2023; 200:347-354. [PMID: 37269438 PMCID: PMC10653207 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-023-06963-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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PURPOSE The potential disparities in palliative care delivery for underrepresented minorities with breast cancer are not well known. We sought to determine whether race and ethnicity impact the receipt of palliative care for patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the National Cancer Database for female patients diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer between 2010 and 2017 who received palliative care following diagnosis of MBC to assess the proportion of patients who received palliative care, including non-curative-intent local-regional or systemic therapy. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to identify variables associated with receiving palliative care. RESULTS 60,685 patients were diagnosed with de novo MBC. Of these, only 21.4% (n = 12,963) received a palliative care service. Overall, there was a positive trend in palliative care receipt from 18.2% in 2010 to 23.0% in 2017 (P < 0.001), which persisted when stratified by race and ethnicity. Relative to non-Hispanic White women, Asian/Pacific Islander women (aOR 0.80, 95% CI 0.71-0.90, P < 0.001), Hispanic women (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0.69, 95% CI 0.63-0.76, P < 0.001), and non-Hispanic Black women (aOR 0.94, 95% CI 0.88-0.99, P = 0.03) were less likely to receive palliative care. CONCLUSIONS Fewer than 25% of women with MBC received palliative care between 2010 and 2017. While palliative care has significantly increased for all racial/ethnic groups, Hispanic White, Black, and Asian/Pacific Islander women with MBC still receive significantly less palliative care than non-Hispanic White women. Further research is needed to identify the socioeconomic and cultural barriers to palliative care utilization.
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- Fantine Giap
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, 2015 North Jefferson Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32206, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, 2015 North Jefferson Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32206, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, 2015 North Jefferson Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32206, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, 2015 North Jefferson Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32206, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, 2015 North Jefferson Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32206, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, 2015 North Jefferson Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32206, USA.
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Namgial T, Singh AK, Singh NP, Francis A, Chattopadhyay D, Voloudakis A, Chakraborty S. Correction to: Differential expression of genes during recovery of Nicotiana tabacum from tomato leaf curl Gujarat virus infection. Planta 2023; 258:51. [PMID: 37490148 PMCID: PMC10368538 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-023-04206-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/26/2023]
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- T Namgial
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, 11855, Greece
- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, 11855, Greece.
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
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Namgial T, Singh AK, Singh NP, Francis A, Chattopadhyay D, Voloudakis A, Chakraborty S. Differential expression of genes during recovery of Nicotiana tabacum from tomato leaf curl Gujarat virus infection. Planta 2023; 258:37. [PMID: 37405593 PMCID: PMC10322791 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-023-04182-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/06/2023]
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MAIN CONCLUSION Nicotiana tabacum exhibits recovery response towards tomato leaf curl Gujarat virus. Transcriptome analysis revealed the differential expression of defense-related genes. Genes encoding for cysteine protease inhibitor, hormonal- and stress-related to DNA repair mechanism are found to be involved in the recovery process. Elucidating the role of host factors in response to viral infection is crucial in understanding the plant host-virus interaction. Begomovirus, a genus in the family Geminiviridae, is reported throughout the globe and is known to cause serious crop diseases. Tomato leaf curl Gujarat virus (ToLCGV) infection in Nicotiana tabacum resulted in initial symptom expression followed by a quick recovery in the systemic leaves. Transcriptome analysis using next-generation sequencing (NGS) revealed a large number of differentially expressed genes both in symptomatic as well as recovered leaves when compared to mock-inoculated plants. The virus infected N. tabacum results in alteration of various metabolic pathways, phytohormone signaling pathway, defense related protein, protease inhibitor, and DNA repair pathway. RT-qPCR results indicated that Germin-like protein subfamily T member 2 (NtGLPST), Cysteine protease inhibitor 1-like (NtCPI), Thaumatin-like protein (NtTLP), Kirola-like (NtKL), and Ethylene-responsive transcription factor ERF109-like (NtERTFL) were down-regulated in symptomatic leaves when compared to recovered leaves of ToLCGV-infected plants. In contrast, the Auxin-responsive protein SAUR71-like (NtARPSL) was found to be differentially down-regulated in recovered leaves when compared to symptomatic leaves and the mock-inoculated plants. Lastly, Histone 2X protein like (NtHH2L) gene was found to be down-regulated, whereas Uncharacterized (NtUNCD) was up-regulated in both symptomatic as well as recovered leaves compared to the mock-inoculated plants. Taken together, the present study suggests potential roles of the differentially expressed genes that might govern tobacco's susceptibility and/or recovery response towards ToLCGV infection.
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- T Namgial
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, 11855, Greece
- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, 11855, Greece.
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
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Caudell JJ, Torres-Saavedra PA, Rosenthal DI, Axelrod RS, Nguyen-Tan PF, Sherman EJ, Weber RS, Galvin JM, El-Naggar AK, Konski AA, Echevarria MI, Dunlap NE, Shenouda G, Singh AK, Beitler JJ, Garsa A, Bonner JA, Garden AS, Algan O, Harris J, Le QT. Long-Term Update of NRG/RTOG 0522: A Randomized Phase 3 Trial of Concurrent Radiation and Cisplatin With or Without Cetuximab in Locoregionally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 116:533-543. [PMID: 36549347 PMCID: PMC10247515 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Revised: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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PURPOSE The combination of cisplatin and radiation or cetuximab and radiation improves overall survival of patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck carcinoma. NRG Oncology conducted a phase 3 trial to test the hypothesis that adding cetuximab to radiation and cisplatin would improve progression-free survival (PFS). METHODS AND MATERIALS Eligible patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer sixth edition stage T2 N2a-3 M0 or T3-4 N0-3 M0 were accrued from November 2005 to March 2009 and randomized to receive radiation and cisplatin without (arm A) or with (arm B) cetuximab. Outcomes were correlated with patient and tumor features. Late reactions were scored using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (version 3). RESULTS Of 891 analyzed patients, 452 with a median follow-up of 10.1 years were alive at analysis. The addition of cetuximab did not improve PFS (hazard ratio [HR], 1.06; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.89-1.26; P = .74), with 10-year estimates of 43.6% (95% CI, 38.8- 48.4) for arm A and 40.2% (95% CI, 35.4-45.0) for arm B. Cetuximab did not reduce locoregional failure (HR, 1.21; 95% CI, 0.95-1.53; P = .94) or distant metastasis (HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.54-1.14; P = .10) or improve overall survival (HR, 0.97; 95% CI, 0.80-1.16; P = .36). Cetuximab did not appear to improve PFS in either p16-positive oropharynx (HR, 1.30; 95% CI, 0.87-1.93) or p16-negative oropharynx or nonoropharyngeal primary (HR, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.73-1.21). Grade 3 to 4 late toxicity rates were 57.4% in arm A and 61.3% in arm B (P = .26). CONCLUSIONS With a median follow-up of more than 10 years, this updated report confirms the addition of cetuximab to radiation therapy and cisplatin did not improve any measured outcome in the entire cohort or when stratifying by p16 status.
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- Jimmy J Caudell
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL.
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- NRG Oncology Statistics and Data Management Center, American College of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology, Head and Neck Surger, and Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, CHUM - Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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- Head and Neck Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology, Head and Neck Surger, and Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core (IROC) Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology, Head and Neck Surger, and Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Chester County Hospital/University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Louisville, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, KY
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center LAPS, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Center, Birmingham, AL
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology, Head and Neck Surger, and Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
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- NRG Oncology Statistics and Data Management Center, American College of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford Cancer Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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Yu B, Ma SJ, Khan M, Gill J, Iovoli A, Fekrmandi F, Farrugia MK, Wooten K, Gupta V, McSpadden R, Kuriakose MA, Markiewicz MR, Al-Afif A, Hicks WL, Seshadri M, Ray AD, Repasky EA, Singh AK. Association of pre-treatment lymphocyte-monocyte ratio with survival outcome in patients with head and neck cancer treated with chemoradiation. BMC Cancer 2023; 23:572. [PMID: 37344761 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-023-11062-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Given the role of systematic inflammation in cancer progression, lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (LMR) from peripheral blood has been suggested as a biomarker to assess the extent of inflammation in several solid malignancies. However, the role of LMR as a prognostic factor in head and neck cancer was unclear in several meta-analyses, and there is a paucity of literature including patients in North America. We performed an observational cohort study to evaluate the association of LMR with survival outcomes in North American patients with head and neck cancer. METHODS A single-institution, retrospective database was queried for patients with non-metastatic head and neck cancer who underwent definitive chemoradiation from June 2007 to April 2021 at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Primary endpoints were overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS). The association of LMR with OS and CSS was examined using nonlinear Cox proportional hazard model using restricted cubic splines (RCS). Cox multivariable analysis (MVA) and Kaplan-Meier method were used to analyze OS and CSS. Pre-radiation LMR was then stratified into high and low based on its median value. Propensity scored matching was used to reduce the selection bias. RESULTS A total of 476 patients met our criteria. Median follow up was 45.3 months (interquartile range 22.8-74.0). The nonlinear Cox regression model showed that low LMR was associated with worse OS and CSS in a continuous fashion without plateau for both OS and CSS. On Cox MVA, higher LMR as a continuous variable was associated with improved OS (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 0,90, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.82-0.99, p = 0.03) and CSS (aHR 0.83, 95% CI 0.72-0.95, p = 0.009). The median value of LMR was 3.8. After propensity score matching, a total of 186 pairs were matched. Lower LMR than 3.8 remained to be associated with worse OS (HR 1.59, 95% CI 1.12-2.26, p = 0.009) and CSS (HR 1.68, 95% CI 1.08-2.63, p = 0.02). CONCLUSION Low LMR, both as a continuous variable and dichotomized variable, was associated with worse OS and CSS. Further studies would be warranted to evaluate the role of such prognostic marker to tailor interventions.
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- Brian Yu
- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14214, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Oral Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA.
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Ma SJ, Khan M, Chatterjee U, Santhosh S, Hashmi M, Gill J, Yu B, Iovoli A, Farrugia M, Wooten K, Gupta V, McSpadden R, Yu H, Kuriakose MA, Markiewicz MR, Al-Afif A, Hicks WL, Seshadri M, Ray AD, Repasky E, Singh AK. Association of Body Mass Index With Outcomes Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Chemoradiotherapy. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2320513. [PMID: 37368400 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.20513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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Importance Combined modality therapy, such as chemoradiotherapy, often results in significant morbidity among patients with head and neck cancer. Although the role of body mass index (BMI) varies based on cancer subtypes, its association with treatment response, tumor recurrence, and survival outcomes among patients with head and neck cancer remains unclear. Objective To evaluate the role of BMI in treatment response, tumor recurrence, and survival outcomes among patients with head and neck cancer undergoing chemoradiotherapy. Design, Setting, and Participants This retrospective, observational, single-institution cohort study conducted at a comprehensive cancer center included 445 patients with nonmetastatic head and neck cancer who underwent chemoradiotherapy from January 1, 2005, to January 31, 2021. Exposure Normal vs overweight or obese BMI. Main Outcomes and Measures Metabolic response after chemoradiotherapy, locoregional failure (LRF), distant failure (DF), overall survival (OS), and progression-free survival (PFS), with Bonferroni correction used to adjust for multiple comparisons and P < .025 being considered statistically significant. Results A total of 445 patients (373 men [83.8%]; median age, 61 years [IQR, 55-66 years]; 107 [24.0%] with normal BMI, 179 [40.2%] with overweight BMI, and 159 [35.7%] with obese BMI) were included for analysis. Median follow-up was 48.1 months (IQR, 24.7-74.9 months). On Cox proportional hazards regression multivariable analysis, only overweight BMI was associated with improved OS (5-year OS, 71.5% vs 58.4%; adjusted hazard ratio [AHR], 0.59 [95% CI, 0.39-0.91]; P = .02) and PFS (5-year PFS, 68.3% vs 50.8%; AHR, 0.51 [95% CI, 0.34-0.75]; P < .001). On logistic multivariable analysis, overweight BMI (91.6% vs 73.8%; adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 0.86 [95% CI, 0.80-0.93]; P < .001) and obese BMI (90.6% vs 73.8%; AOR, 0.89 [95% CI, 0.81-0.96]; P = .005) were associated with complete metabolic response on follow-up positron emission tomography-computed tomography after treatments. On Fine-Gray multivariable analysis, overweight BMI was associated with reduction in LRF (5-year LRF, 7.0% vs 25.9%; AHR, 0.30 [95% CI, 0.12-0.71]; P = .01), but not DF (5-year DF, 17.4% vs 21.5%; AHR, 0.92 [95% CI, 0.47-1.77]; P = .79). Obese BMI was not associated with LRF (5-year LRF, 10.4% vs 25.9%; AHR, 0.63 [95% CI, 0.29-1.37]; P = .24) or DF (5-year DF, 15.0% vs 21.5%; AHR, 0.70 [95% CI, 0.35-1.38]; P = .30). Conclusion In this cohort study of patients with head and neck cancer, when compared with normal BMI, overweight BMI was an independent factor favorably associated with complete response after treatments, OS, PFS, and LRF. Further investigations are warranted to improve understanding on the role of BMI among patients with head and neck cancer.
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- Sung Jun Ma
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
- Department of Neurosurgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
- Department of Surgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Oral Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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Chen J, Long MD, Sribenja S, Ma SJ, Yan L, Hu Q, Liu S, Khoury T, Hong CC, Bandera E, Singh AK, Repasky EA, Bouchard EG, Higgins M, Ambrosone CB, Yao S. An epigenome-wide analysis of socioeconomic position and tumor DNA methylation in breast cancer patients. Clin Epigenetics 2023; 15:68. [PMID: 37101222 PMCID: PMC10131486 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-023-01470-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 04/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Disadvantaged socioeconomic position (SEP), including lower educational attainment and household income, may influence cancer risk and outcomes. We hypothesized that DNA methylation could function as an intermediary epigenetic mechanism that internalizes and reflects the biological impact of SEP. METHODS Based on tumor DNA methylation data from the Illumina 450 K array from 694 breast cancer patients in the Women's Circle of Health Study, we conducted an epigenome-wide analysis in relation to educational attainment and household income. Functional impact of the identified CpG sites was explored in silico using data from publicly available databases. RESULTS We identified 25 CpG sites associated with household income at an array-wide significance level, but none with educational attainment. Two of the top CpG sites, cg00452016 and cg01667837, were in promoter regions of NNT and GPR37, respectively, with multiple epigenetic regulatory features identified in each region. NNT is involved in β-adrenergic stress signaling and inflammatory responses, whereas GPR37 is involved in neurological and immune responses. For both loci, gene expression was inversely correlated to the levels of DNA methylation. The associations were consistent between Black and White women and did not differ by tumor estrogen receptor (ER) status. CONCLUSIONS In a large breast cancer patient population, we discovered evidence of the significant biological impact of household income on the tumor DNA methylome, including genes in the β-adrenergic stress and immune response pathways. Our findings support biological effects of socioeconomic status on tumor tissues, which might be relevant to cancer development and progression.
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- Jianhong Chen
- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA.
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Jurdi NE, Martens MJ, Brunstein CG, O'Donnell P, Lee SJ, D'Souza A, Logan B, Hong S, Singh AK, Sandhu K, Shapiro RM, Horowitz MM, Hamilton BK. Heath-related Quality of Life in Double Umbilical Cord Blood vs. Haploidentical Marrow Transplantation: a QOL Analysis Report of BMT CTN 1101. Transplant Cell Ther 2023:S2666-6367(23)01240-X. [PMID: 37088401 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2023.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2023] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network study 1101 (BMT CTN 1101, NCT01597778) was a multicenter phase III randomized trial comparing the clinical outcomes and quality of life (QOL) of patients with hematological malignancies receiving double umbilical cord blood transplants (dUCBT) or HLA-haploidentical bone marrow transplants (haplo-BM) after reduced intensity conditioning. Five-year follow up found no significant differences in progression free survival (PFS) or overall survival (OS) between the two cohorts. The impact of alternative donor source on QOL, however, is unknown. METHODS English and Spanish speaking patients completed the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), SF-36, EQ-5D, and Global QOL patient-reported outcome (PRO) assessments pre-transplant and at 12 and 24 months post-transplant. We compared longitudinal QOL measures between dUCBT and haplo-BMT and investigated the association of QOL and clinical outcomes using an inverse probability weighted-independent estimating equations (IPW-IEE) method accounting for missingness and baseline variables. RESULTS We found no significant differences in any of the QOL scores between the treatment arms at pre-transplant, 12, and 24 months. Pre-transplant scores were the only significant predictors of post-transplant QOL scores. Relapse and Grade III-IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) were associated with significant declines in mean FACT-BMT and SF-36 physical component scores. Chronic GVHD was associated with a decline in mean EQ-5D utility scores. We found no significant association between pre-transplant QOL scores and OS or PFS. CONCLUSIONS Donor type did not impact post-transplant QOL. Pre-transplant QOL scores and clinical events of GVHD and relapse were the only predictors of post-transplant QOL. QOL was not associated with survival in either treatment arm. PROs may be a valuable tool in pre-transplant risk assessment strategies to improve QOL outcomes.
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- Najla El Jurdi
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Duke University, Durham, NC
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
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- Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
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Ma SJ, Gill J, Yendamuri K, Chatterjee U, Waldman O, Dunne-Jaffe C, Fekrmandi F, Shekher R, Iovoli A, Yao S, Oladeru OT, Singh AK. Association of progesterone receptor status with 21-gene recurrence score and survival among patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. BMC Cancer 2023; 23:330. [PMID: 37041481 PMCID: PMC10088125 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-023-10796-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 04/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Progesterone receptor (PR)-negative tumors have been shown to have worse prognosis and were underrepresented in recent trials on patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer. The role of PR-negative status in the context of 21-gene recurrence score (RS) and nodal staging remains unclear. METHODS The National Cancer Database (NCDB) was queried for women diagnosed between 2010 and 2017 with ER-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, pT1-3N0-1a breast cancer. Logistic and Cox multivariable analyses (MVA) were performed to identify association of PR status with high RS (> 25) and overall survival (OS), respectively. RESULTS Among 143,828 women, 130,349 (90.6%) and 13,479 (9.4%) patients had PR-positive and PR-negative tumors, respectively. Logistic MVA showed that PR-negative status was associated with higher RS (> 25: aOR 16.15, 95% CI 15.23-17.13). Cox MVA showed that PR-negative status was associated with worse OS (adjusted hazards ratio [aHR] 1.20, 95% CI 1.10-1.31). There was an interaction with nodal staging and chemotherapy (p = 0.049). Subgroup analyses using Cox MVA showed the magnitude of the chemotherapy benefit was greater among those with pN1a, PR-negative tumors than pN1a, PR-positive tumors (PR-positive: aHR 0.57, 95% CI 0.47-0.67; PR-negative: aHR 0.31, 95% CI 0.20-0.47). It was comparable among those with pN0 tumors regardless of PR status (PR-positive: aHR 0.74, 95% CI 0.66-0.82; PR-negative: aHR 0.63, 95% CI 0.51-0.77). CONCLUSION PR-negative tumors were independently correlated with higher RS and were associated with greater OS benefits from chemotherapy for pN1a tumors, but not pN0 tumors.
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- Sung Jun Ma
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York 12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York 12 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, 2000 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, FL, 32608, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA.
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Tomar P, Rajoriya JS, Ojha BK, Singh AK, Deshpande D, Choubey P, Raje A, Mishra GK, Perumal P. Tinospora cordifolia modulates the seminal parameters, leakage of intracellular enzymes and seminal antioxidants in equilibrated and cryopreserved semen of Sahiwal bulls. Reprod Domest Anim 2023. [PMID: 37009827 DOI: 10.1111/rda.14352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Revised: 03/05/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/04/2023]
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The present study was undertaken to assess the effects of stem extract of Tinospora cordifolia (Giloy or Guduchi) in the semen extender on seminal parameters, leakage of intracellular enzymes and antioxidants in semen of Sahiwal bull. A total of 48 ejaculates from four bulls were selected for the study. Spermatozoa of 25×106 were incubated in 100, 300 and 500 μg of stem extract of Guduchi as Gr II, III and IV, respectively and pre-freeze and post-thaw semen samples were analysed for seminal parameters (motility, viability, total sperm abnormality; TSA, plasma membrane integrity; PMI, and acrosomal integrity; AcI), intracellular enzymes (aspartate aminotransferase; AST and lactate dehydrogenase; LDH) and seminal antioxidants (superoxide dismutase; SOD and catalase) in comparison with an untreated control group (Gr I). The results revealed that stem extract treated semen had significantly (p<0.05) higher motility, viability, PMI, AcI, SOD and catalase and had significantly (p<0.05) lower TSA, AST and LDH compared to those in untreated control group at pre-freeze and post-thaw stages. Semen treated with 100 μg stem extract /25×106 spermatozoa had significantly (p<0.05) higher motility, viability, PMI, AcI, SOD and catalase and had significantly (p<0.05) lower TSA, AST and LDH compared to those in control, 300, and 500 μg treated groups at pre-freeze and post-thaw stages. Further, these seminal parameters and antioxidants were showing decreasing trend and TSA and leakage of intra-cellular enzymes were showing increasing trend from Gr II to Gr IV at pre-freeze and post-thaw stages. Thus, 100 μg/25×106 spermatozoa were optimum or suitable dose for cryopreservation of Sahiwal bull semen. The study concluded that T. cordifolia stem extract 100 μg/25×106 spermatozoa in the semen extender can be effectively utilized to reduce the oxidative stress and improve the pre-freeze and post-thaw seminal parameters in Sahiwal bull. However, further studies on effects of different concentrations of stem extract on in-vitro or in-vivo fertility trials are to be conducted to assess the impact of the stem extract supplementation in the semen extender on field pregnancy outcome in bovine species.
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- P Tomar
- NDVSU-College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- NDVSU-College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- NDVSU-College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- NDVSU-College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Central Semen Station, Bhadbhada, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Central Semen Station, Bhadbhada, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- NDVSU-College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- NDVSU-College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- ICAR-Central, Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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Chow J, Khan A, Gaudieri M, Wasik BJ, Conway A, Soh KT, Repasky EA, Schwaab T, Wallace PK, Abrams SI, Singh AK, Muhitch JB. Tumor and immune remodeling following radiotherapy in human renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 2023; 11:jitc-2022-006392. [PMID: 37080610 PMCID: PMC10124322 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2022-006392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Studies evaluating peripheral patient samples show radiation can modulate immune responses, yet the biological changes in human tumors particularly at the cellular level remain largely unknown. Here, we address how radiation treatment shapes the immune compartment and interactions with cancer cells within renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patient tumors. METHODS To identify how radiation shaped the immune compartment and potential immune interactions with tumor cells we evaluated RCC tumors from patients treated only with nephrectomy or with radiation followed by nephrectomy. Spectral flow cytometry using a 35-marker panel was performed on cell suspensions to evaluate protein expression within immune subsets. To reveal how radiation alters programming of immune populations and interactions with tumor cells, we examined transcriptional changes by single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq). RESULTS Spectral flow cytometry analysis revealed increased levels of early-activated as well as effector programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1)+ CD8 T-cell subsets within irradiated tumors. Following quality control, scRNAseq of tumor samples from nephrectomy-only or radiation followed by nephrectomy-treated patients generated an atlas containing 34,626 total cells. Transcriptional analysis revealed increased transition from stem-like T-cell populations to effector T cells in irradiated tumors. Interferon (IFN) pathways, that are central to radiation-induced immunogenicity, were enriched in irradiated lymphoid, myeloid, and cancer cell populations. Focused cancer cell analysis showed enhanced antigen presentation and increased predicted TRAIL-mediated and IFN-mediated interactions between tumor cells and the same effector T-cell subsets increased by radiation. TRAIL and IFN pathways enriched in irradiated tumors were associated with survival in patients treated with immunotherapy. CONCLUSIONS These findings identify the source of IFN enrichment within irradiated RCC and reveal heightened levels of PD-1+ CD8+ T-cell subsets and increased probability of interactions with tumor cells following standalone radiation treatment. This study provides a window into the irradiated tumor-immune microenvironment of patients and rationale for treatment combinations.
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- Jacky Chow
- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Flow and Image Cytometry, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Flow and Image Cytometry, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Urology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Flow and Image Cytometry, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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Qiu ML, Iovoli AJ, Khan M, Farrugia MK, Ma SJ, Singh AK. Prophylactic High-Dose Gabapentin Reduces Opiate Use during Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:cancers15072003. [PMID: 37046669 PMCID: PMC10093545 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15072003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Background: The role of prophylactic high-dose gabapentin for the management of oral mucositis during radiation therapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) remains controversial. Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis was performed on primary HNSCC patients treated at our institution. Kruskal–Wallis and Fisher’s exact tests were used to compare the patients’ baseline characteristics. Multivariate competing risk and logistic regressions were performed to evaluate time to first opioid use and feeding tube placement. Results: In total, 480 consecutive HNSCC patients were included. Within this cohort, 186 patients received 3600 mg gabapentin, 182 received 300 to 3200 mg gabapentin, and 112 received no gabapentin. The time to first opioid use was greater in the 3600 mg group compared with the no gabapentin group (34.3 vs. 23.9 days, p < 0.001) and to the 300 to 3200 mg group (28.0 days, p < 0.001). The proportion of patients requiring opioids at any point during RT was lower in the 3600 mg gabapentin group compared with the no gabapentin group (31.8% vs. 60.1%, p < 0.001) and with the 300 to 3200 mg group (63.8%, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Prophylactic use of 3600 mg gabapentin was well tolerated, halved overall opioid use, and delayed the time to first opioid use during radiation therapy.
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Huang K, Prasad S, Ma SJ, Yu H, Iovoli AJ, Farrugia MK, Dexter EU, Demmy TL, Malik NK, Singh AK. Association of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio with survival in peripheral early-stage non-small cell lung cancer after stereotactic body radiation therapy. BMC Cancer 2023; 23:254. [PMID: 36932396 PMCID: PMC10024425 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-023-10719-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The role of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as a predictor for survival in single fraction SBRT-treated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients remains unclear. We performed an observational cohort study to determine the role of pretreatment NLR in predicting survival of early-stage NSCLC patients after single fraction SBRT. METHODS A single-institution database of peripheral early-stage NSCLC patients treated with SBRT from February 2007 to May 2022 was queried. Optimal threshold of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) was defined based on maximally selected rank statistics. Cox multivariable analysis (MVA), Kaplan-Meier, and propensity score matching were performed to evaluate outcomes. RESULTS A total of 286 patients were included for analysis with median follow up of 19.7 months. On Cox multivariate analysis, as a continuous variable, NLR was shown to be an independent predictor of OS (adjusted hazards ratio [aHR] 1.06, 95% CI 1.02-1.10, p = 0.005) and PFS (aHR 1.05, 95% CI 1.01-1.09, p = 0.013). In addition, NLR was associated with DF (aHR 1.11, 95% CI 1.05-1.18, p < 0.001). Maximally selected rank statistics determined 3.28 as the cutoff point of high NLR versus low NLR. These findings were confirmed upon propensity matching. CONCLUSIONS Pretreatment NLR is an independent predictor for survival outcomes of peripheral early-stage NSCLC patients after single fraction SBRT.
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- Karen Huang
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Cornell University, 410 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 665 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA.
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Shahzad M, Hussain A, Tariq E, Anwar I, Faisal MS, Syed L, Karam A, Chaudhary SG, Ahmed N, Bansal R, Khurana S, Singh AK, Byrd KP, Hematti P, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Outcomes of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Maintenance Therapy with or without Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Philadelphia Chromosome Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in First Complete Remission: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 2023; 23:178-187. [PMID: 36682989 DOI: 10.1016/j.clml.2023.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare outcomes of tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) maintenance therapy with or without allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in first remission (CR1). A literature search was performed on PubMed, Cochrane, and Clinical trials.gov. After screening 1720 articles, 12 studies were included. Proportions and odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were computed. I2 provides an estimate of the percentage of variability in results across studies that is due to real differences and not due to chance. Of 1039 patients, 635 (61%) had TKI alone and 404 (39%) patients had HSCT followed by TKI. At 3 years, a trend towards poor overall survival (OS; OR 0.67, 95% CI 0.39-1.15, I2 = 68%), (disease-free survival; OR 0.58, 95% CI 0.26-1.29, I2 = 76%), and higher relapse rate (RR; OR = 2.52, 95% CI = 1.66-3.83, I2 = 26%) was seen with TKI alone compared to HSCT-TKI. Although HSCT followed by TKI maintenance in Ph+ ALL has long been considered standard of care, the introduction of potent third-generation TKIs and bispecific T-cell engagers such as Blinatumomab has significantly improved outcomes while sparing the need for HSCT in newly diagnosed patients.
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- Moazzam Shahzad
- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
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Kumar G, Singh AK, Agarwal D. Structural and functional characterization of RNA dependent RNA polymerase of Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MnRdRp). J Biomol Struct Dyn 2023; 41:12825-12837. [PMID: 36757137 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2023.2175384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Macrobrachium rosenbergii is a highly valued farmed freshwater species and its production has been affected globally by white tail disease caused by M. rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV). MrNV is a single stranded positive sense RNA virus encoding RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) for genome replication. Due to its essentiality for pathogenesis, it is an important drug target. The domain prediction of the complete sequence revealed the presence of two enzymatic regions namely methyl transferase and RdRp separated by transmembrane region. The predicted three-dimensional (3D) structure of MnRdRp using AlphaFold 2 shows that the structure is composed of three major sub-domains common for other polymerases namely fingers, palm and thumb. Structural similarity search revealed its similarity with other flaviviridea members especially with BVDV RdRp (BvdvRdRp). The structure of fingers and palm sub-domains is more conserved than the thumb sub-domain. A small α-helix named 'priming helix' having conserve Tyr was identified at position 829-833 with a potential role in de novo initiation. Analysis of electrostatic potential revealed that nucleotide and template channels are electropositive. Metal binding residues were identified as Asp599, Asp704 and Asp705. The α and β phosphates of incoming nucleotide interact with two Mn2+, Arg455 and Arg537. For recognition of 2'-OH of incoming rNTP, Asp604, Ser661 and Asn670 were identified which can form H-bond network with 2'-OH group. Docking study revealed that Dasabuvir can potentially inhibit MnRdRp. The study concluded that the overall structure and function of MnRdRp are similar to Flaviviridae polymerases and their inhibitors can work against this enzyme.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Gulshan Kumar
- College of Fisheries Science Gunla, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
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- College of Fisheries Science Gunla, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
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- TNJFU, Institute of Fisheries Post Graduate Studies, OMR, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Shahzad M, Chaudhary SG, Tariq E, Mushtaq AH, Anwar I, Ahmed N, Bansal R, Lutfi F, Balusu R, Abdelhakim H, Yacoub A, Hematti P, Singh AK, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Use of endpoints in phase III randomized controlled trials for acute myeloid leukemia over the last 15 years: a systematic review. Leuk Lymphoma 2023; 64:273-282. [PMID: 36282773 DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2022.2136947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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We systematically evaluated the primary and secondary endpoints used in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) phase III randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We included 238 phase III AML RCTs in the past 15 years that reported 279 primary endpoints and 657 secondary endpoints. Overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), event-free survival (EFS), and complete remission (CR) were primary endpoints in 120 (43%), 34 (12%), 30 (11%), and 41 (15%) studies, respectively. OS (12.5%), PFS (13.2%), CR (14%), safety (11%), and EFS (9%) were commonly reported secondary endpoints. Among primary endpoints, a higher use of OS (OR 2.03, 95%CI 1.10-3.75, p = 0.023) and lower use of PFS (OR 0.25, 95%CI 0.12-0.52, p < 0.001) was observed from 2014 to 2021 compared to 2006-2013; CR was frequently used in relapsed/refractory compared to frontline RCTs (OR 2.20, 95%CI 1.11-4.38, p = 0.025); EFS was frequently used in frontline compared to relapsed/refractory AML RCTs (OR 10.11, 95%CI 1.34-76.34, p = 0.025). A higher trend in the use of clinically meaningful and objective endpoint of OS over the last 15 years.
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- Moazzam Shahzad
- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.,Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.,University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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Mushtaq MU, Al-Ramahi JS, Li K, Shahzad M, DeJarnette S, Nguyen A, Chaudhary SG, Lutfi F, Balusu R, Ahmed N, Bansal R, Abdelhakim H, Shune L, Singh AK, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP. Outcomes with CD34-Selected Stem Cell Boost for Poor Graft Function and Graft Failure after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s2666-6367(23)00298-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Sasidharan JK, Patra MK, Khan JA, Singh AK, Karikalan M, De UK, Saxena AC, Dubal ZB, Singh SK, Kumar H, Krishnaswamy N. Differential expression of inflammatory cytokines, prostaglandin synthases and secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor in the endometrium and circulation in different graded CEH-pyometra in bitch. Theriogenology 2023; 197:139-149. [PMID: 36516536 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2022.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Cystic endometrial hyperplasia (CEH)-pyometra (CEH-P) is one of the most common reproductive disorders in bitches, posing a risk to both future fertility and life. The aims of the current study were to elucidate the differential expression patterns of inflammatory mediators at transcript and protein levels in the endometrium and to assess the concentrations of key inflammatory mediators in the peripheral circulation of bitches with different graded CEH-P. A total of 25 client-owned intact mixed breed bitches of 3-10 years presented to the outpatient department of RVP-TVCC of the institute were considered for the study. Of which, 22 cases suggestive of pyometra and 3 cases of CEH obtained during routine elective ovariohysterectomy were subjected to histopathological examination. Uteri were categorized into CEH (n = 3), moderate CEH-P (mCEH-P, n = 9), severe CEH-P (sCEH-P, n = 6) and atrophic pyometra (AT-P, n = 7). A group of age matched (n = 12) bitches without pyometra served as control. Endometrial transcripts such as IL6, IL8, PTGS2, PGFS, and SLPI were expressed differentially in the CEH and CEH-P bitch. In addition, a strong immunoreactivity (IR) of IL6, IL8, PTGS2, and mPGES1 was recorded in the sCEH-P uterus, while expression of IL10 was noticed in AT-P. In circulation, serum IL6 was the most relevant marker with high sensitivity of 96.2% and specificity of 84.6% at a cut off concentration 8.5 pg/mL followed by SLPI with 95.2% sensitivity, and 84.6% specificity at cut off concentration of 1.3 ng/mL. Serum IL10, PGFM and SLPI concentration in the peripheral circulation were 1.5-2.23 fold higher in mCEH-P, 0.87-2.5 fold higher in sCEH-P and 2.9-3.5 fold higher in AT-P than that of control. It is concluded that monitoring the serum concentration of IL6, IL10 and SLPI would be useful adjunct to the established hematobiochemical parameters in the management of pyometra in the bitch with critical illness.
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- J K Sasidharan
- Animal Reproduction Division, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Animal Reproduction Division, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India.
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- Animal Reproduction Division, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Animal Reproduction Division, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Centre for Wildlife Conservation, Management and Disease Surveillance, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Division of Veterinary Medicine, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India; Referral Veterinary Polyclinic, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Referral Veterinary Polyclinic, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Division of Veterinary Public Health, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Animal Reproduction Division, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Animal Reproduction Division, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India
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- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Hebbal, Bengaluru, 560 024, India
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Nelson M, Al-Ramahi JS, Shahzad M, England T, Li K, Nguyen A, Chaudhary SG, Ahmed N, Singh AK, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP, Mushtaq MU. Concurrent Intravenous Immunoglobulin and Platelet Transfusion for Refractory Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia in Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s2666-6367(23)00256-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Ma SJ, Iovoli AJ, Wang K, Neimanis D, Smith KA, Attwood K, Farrugia M, Hermann G, Singh AK. Efficacy of Prophylactic High-Dose Gabapentin and Venlafaxine on Reducing Oral Mucositis Pain Among Patients Treated With Chemoradiation for Head and Neck Cancer: A Single-Institution, Phase 2, Randomized Clinical Trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023:S0360-3016(23)00084-6. [PMID: 36736633 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.01.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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PURPOSE Given the paucity of level 1 evidence, the optimal regimen to control oral mucositis pain remains unclear. Although national guidelines allow consideration of prophylactic gabapentin, prior trials showed improved pain control with venlafaxine among patients with diabetic neuropathy. We sought to investigate the role of prophylactic high-dose gabapentin with venlafaxine to reduce oral mucositis pain among patients with head and neck cancer. METHODS AND MATERIALS We performed a single-institution, phase 2 randomized trial on nonmetastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck treated with chemoradiation. Patients were randomized to either prophylactic gabapentin (3600 mg daily) with or without venlafaxine (150 mg daily). Primary endpoint was differences in pain levels at the end of chemoradiation. Secondary endpoint was toxicity profiles, quality of life changes, opioid use, and feeding tube placement. Differences between the 2 arms at multiple time points were evaluated using a generalized linear mixed regression model with Sidak correction. RESULTS Between May 2018 and March 2021, a total of 62 patients were enrolled and evaluable for analysis (n = 32 for the gabapentin alone arm, n = 30 for the gabapentin + venlafaxine arm). Over 90% of patients tolerated gabapentin well. Head and neck pain level showed a mean value of 45 (standard deviation, 23) and 43 (standard deviation, 21) for the gabapentin alone and the gabapentin + venlafaxine arms, respectively (P = .65). No statistically significant differences were observed in adverse events, opioid use, feeding tube placement, or quality of life. CONCLUSIONS The addition of venlafaxine to prophylactic gabapentin did not result in improvements in pain control and quality of life among patients with head and neck cancer.
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- Sung Jun Ma
- Departments of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Departments of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Departments of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Departments of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Departments of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, OSF Healthcare Saint Francis Medical Center, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, Illinois
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- Departments of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York.
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Mushtaq MU, Shahzad M, DeJarnette S, Al-Ramahi JS, Lutfi F, Li K, Balusu R, Ahmed N, Bansal R, Abdelhakim H, Shune L, Singh AK, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP. Outcomes with HLA-Matched Unrelated Donor Versus Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A Single-Center Experience. Transplant Cell Ther 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s2666-6367(23)00371-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Wesson W, Nelson M, Mushtaq MU, Bansal R, Lutfi F, Singh AK, Ghazal BA, Hoffmann M, Tun A, Abdelhakim H, Abhyankar SH, McGuirk JP, Shune L, Ahmed N. Risk Factors and Outcomes for Patients with Persistent Cytopenia Following Administration of CD19 CAR-T Cell Therapy in B Cell Lymphoma. Transplant Cell Ther 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s2666-6367(23)00313-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Ma SJ, Gill J, Waldman O, Yendamuri K, Dunne-Jaffe C, Chatterjee U, Fekrmandi F, Shekher R, Iovoli A, Yao S, Oladeru OT, Singh AK. Association of Neighborhood-Level Household Income With 21-Gene Recurrence Score and Survival Among Patients With Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e230179. [PMID: 36809469 PMCID: PMC9945075 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.0179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE While low income has been associated with a higher incidence of triple-negative breast cancer, its association with 21-gene recurrence score (RS) among patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association of household income with RS and overall survival (OS) among patients with ER-positive breast cancer. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cohort study used data from the National Cancer Database. Eligible participants included women diagnosed between 2010 and 2018 with ER-positive, pT1-3N0-1aM0 breast cancer who received surgery followed by adjuvant endocrine therapy with or without chemotherapy. Data analysis was performed from July 2022 to September 2022. EXPOSURES Low vs high neighborhood-level household income levels defined as below vs above the median household income of $50 353 based on each patient's zip code. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES RS (a score ranged from 0 to 100 based on gene expression signatures indicating the risk of distant metastasis, with RS of 25 or below indicating non-high risk and RS above 25 indicating high risk) and OS. RESULTS Among 119 478 women (median [IQR] age, 60 [52-67] years; 4737 [4.0%] Asian and Pacific Islander, 9226 [7.7%] Black, 7245 [6.1%] Hispanic, 98 270 [82.2%] non-Hispanic White), 82 198 (68.8%) and 37 280 (31.2%) patients had high and low income, respectively. Logistic multivariable analysis (MVA) showed that, compared with high income, low income was associated with higher RS (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.11; 95% CI, 1.06-1.16). Cox MVA showed that low income was also associated with worse OS (adjusted hazards ratio [aHR], 1.18; 95% CI, 1.11-1.25). Interaction term analysis showed a statistically significant interaction between income levels and RS (interaction P < .001). On subgroup analysis, significant findings were noted among those with RS below 26 (aHR, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.13-1.29), while there was no significant OS difference between income levels among others with RS of 26 or higher (aHR, 1.08; 95% CI, 0.96-1.22). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Our study suggested that low household income was independently associated with higher 21-gene recurrence scores and significantly worse survival outcomes among those with scores below 26, but not 26 or higher. Further studies are warranted to investigate the association between socioeconomic determinants of health and intrinsic tumor biology among patients with breast cancer.
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- Sung Jun Ma
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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Juloori A, Katipally RR, Lemons JM, Singh AK, Iyer R, Robbins JR, George B, Hall WA, Pitroda SP, Arif F, Fung J, Pillai A, Liao CY, Sharma M, Liauw SL. Phase 1 Randomized Trial of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Followed by Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab or Nivolumab Alone in Advanced/Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 115:202-213. [PMID: 36108891 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.09.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 09/04/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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PURPOSE Immunotherapy has emerged as a promising therapeutic option for advanced or unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, survival remains poor with only a subset of patients deriving benefit. This trial investigated the safety and efficacy of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) with immunotherapy in HCC. METHODS AND MATERIALS In this multicenter phase 1 randomized trial, patients with advanced or unresectable HCC received liver SBRT (40 Gy in 5 fractions) followed by either nivolumab alone or nivolumab plus ipilimumab. The primary endpoint was dose-limiting toxicity occurring within 6 months of SBRT. Secondary endpoints included overall response rate, progression-free survival, overall survival (OS), distant disease control, and local control of the irradiated tumor. Disease status and response endpoints were assessed radiographically every 8 weeks until progression or initiation of nonprotocol therapy. Response was determined using both RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors) 1.1 and iRECIST. RESULTS Fourteen patients were enrolled across 3 centers. Thirteen patients were evaluated for study endpoints. The study was closed early because of slow accrual. The median follow-up time was 42.7 months. Dose-limiting toxicities within 6 months occurred in 2 (15.4%) of 13 patients: 1 of 6 patients in the nivolumab arm (16.7%; 90% confidence interval [CI], 0.9%-58.2%) and 1 of 7 patients in the nivolumab plus ipilimumab arm (14.3%; 90% CI, 0.7%-52.1%). Grade 3 adverse events occurred in 8 (61.6%), 5 (71.4%), and 3 (50.0%) patients in the overall nivolumab plus ipilimumab and nivolumab cohorts. Grade 3 hepatotoxicity occurred in 4 (30.8%), 3 (42.9%), and 1 (16.7%) patients in the respective cohorts. Clinical outcomes favored the nivolumab plus ipilimumab arm compared with nivolumab alone, including an overall response rate of 57% (4 of 7 patients; 90% CI, 23%-87%) versus 0% (0 of 6 patients; 90% CI, 0%-39%), median progression-free survival of 11.6 months (90% CI, 4.5 months to not reached) versus 2.7 months (90% CI, 1.3-4.7 months), and median OS of 41.6 months (90% CI, 4.5 months to not reached) versus 4.7 months (90% CI, 2.0-16.2 months) (all P < .05). With combination immunotherapy, 3-year OS was 57% (90% CI, 23%-81%), with 2 patients alive after 42.7 months without progression and negative PET. CONCLUSIONS In this first prospective trial investigating the combination of SBRT and immunotherapy for HCC, multimodal therapy demonstrated acceptable safety. SBRT with nivolumab plus ipilimumab compared favorably to outcomes of immunotherapy alone and warrants further investigation.
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- Aditya Juloori
- Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
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- Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona
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- Froedert Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Froedert Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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Lokwani P, Gupta N, Choudhary SK, Singh AK. Noise survey of neonatal intensive care unit at a government tertiary-care centre. J Neonatal Perinatal Med 2023; 16:619-625. [PMID: 38043020 DOI: 10.3233/npm-230031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND With technological advancement, Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) have become noisier than ever. Studies have shown the detrimental effects of increasing noise in NICU on growing pre-term and sick neonates. The present study aimed to survey the amount of noise in one of the NICU blocks of a government tertiary care centre and explore ways to control it when dealing with these sick babies. METHODS A detailed noise survey was carried out, for February 2023, in one of the two blocks of NICU in a government tertiary-care centre. The noise measurements were performed using two "Sound Ear 3" noise meters. The analyses were done in Leq (equivalent continuous sound levels) A-weighted decibels (dBA). RESULTS The extracted data analysis revealed that the NICU block was exposed to a mean Leq of 67.78 dBA noise with a maximum of 89.0 dBA. There was a significant difference between the values noted in devices at different locations and across different periods. There were certain instances (57 and 42 for two devices) when there were sudden spikes in the noise levels beyond 80 dBA. It was also seen that noise was more than 65 dBA most of the time (72% and 66% for the two devices). CONCLUSION The noise survey carried out over one month revealed a considerable amount of noise in the NICU of a government tertiary-care centre. The study also explored ways such as environmental modification, human behavior modification, awareness programs, and neonatal-centered modifications to reduce the noise and lower its detrimental effects on the growth of neonates.
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- P Lokwani
- Audiologist, Model Early Intervention Centre, Department of Neonatology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India
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- Department of Neonatology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India
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- Department of Neonatology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India
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- Department of Neonatology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India
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