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Ying HQ, Chen W, Xiong CF, Wang Y, Li XJ, Cheng XX. Quantification of fibrinogen-to-pre-albumin ratio provides an integrating parameter for differential diagnosis and risk stratification of early-stage colorectal cancer. Cancer Cell Int 2022; 22:137. [PMID: 35346200 PMCID: PMC8961931 DOI: 10.1186/s12935-022-02532-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Background Circulating fibrinogen to pre-albumin ratio (FPR) and albumin to fibrinogen ratio (AFR) are effective factors for predicting the prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the role of these two ratios in diagnosing early-stage CRC and identifying the stage II CRC subgroup with high relapse risk remains unknown. This study aimed to assess the potential of FPR and AFR in differential diagnosis and risk stratification of early-stage CRC. Methods A discovery (694 and 512 patients with benign colorectal polyps and stage I–II CRC, respectively) and validation (201 benign colorectal polyps cases and 202 stage I–II CRC individuals) cohorts were enrolled in this study. Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC), Kaplan–Meier curve, and time-dependent ROC were used to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of AFR and FPR in the two cohorts and overall population, and the discriminating role of FPR in identifying clinical high-relapse risk patients in comparison with common clinical characteristics in stage II CRC patients. Results The area under the curve (AUC) of the preoperative circulating FPR was higher than that of AFR in the diagnosis of stage I–II CRC from colorectal adenomas and benign colorectal polyps in the discovery and validation cohorts and overall population. Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) combined with FPR could effectively discriminate early-stage CRC from colorectal adenomas or benign polyps. Preoperative FPR could effectively distinguish stage II subgroups with high and low relapse risk. It was superior to common clinical characteristics in identifying high-risk surgical patients who could benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy (CT) [time-dependent AUC: 0.637 vs. 0.511, p < 0.001 for predicting recurrence-free survival (RFS); 0.719 vs. 0.501, p < 0.001 for predicting overall survival (OS)]. Furthermore, CT treated stage II patients with FPR > 20 had the highest recurrence (31.16%) and death rates (21.88%), with similar highest recurrence (30.70%) and death (26.82%) rates found in non-CT-treated patients with FPR > 20. Stage II CRC patients with 20 ≥ FPR > 15 could significantly benefit from postoperative CT, as the recurrence (33.30%) and death (35.71%) rates within non-CT treated patients were approximately five times higher than those of the CT-treated cases (6.77% and 7.41% for the recurrence and death rates, respectively). No significant difference in recurrence rate was observed between L-FPR (≤ 15) patients with (10.00%) or without CT (9.76%), indicating that these patients might not require to receive adjuvant CT after curative resection. Conclusions Preoperative FPR combined with CEA is superior to common tumor biomarkers, FPR, or AFR in distinguishing early-stage CRC from benign colorectal polyps. Circulating FPR can be an effective biomarker for identifying high-risk patients and choosing suitable therapeutics for early-stage CRC.
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Tian H, Ning Z, Zong Z, Liu J, Hu C, Ying H, Li H. Application of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Lymph Node Metastasis in Early Gastric Cancer. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 8:759013. [PMID: 35118083 PMCID: PMC8806156 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.759013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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ObjectiveThis study aimed to establish the best early gastric cancer lymph node metastasis (LNM) prediction model through machine learning (ML) to better guide clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions.MethodsWe screened gastric cancer patients with T1a and T1b stages from 2010 to 2015 in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database and collected the clinicopathological data of patients with early gastric cancer who were treated with surgery at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University from January 2014 to December 2016. At the same time, we applied 7 ML algorithms—the generalized linear model (GLM), RPART, random forest (RF), gradient boosting machine (GBM), support vector machine (SVM), regularized dual averaging (RDA), and the neural network (NNET)—and combined them with patient pathological information to develop the best prediction model for early gastric cancer lymph node metastasis. Among the SEER set, 80% were randomly selected to train the models, while the remaining 20% were used for testing. The data from the Second Affiliated Hospital were considered as the external verification set. Finally, we used the AUROC, F1-score value, sensitivity, and specificity to evaluate the performance of the model.ResultsThe tumour size, tumour grade, and depth of tumour invasion were independent risk factors for early gastric cancer LNM. Comprehensive comparison of the prediction model performance of the training set and test set showed that the RDA model had the best prediction performance (F1-score = 0.773; AUROC = 0.742). The AUROC of the external validation set was 0.73.ConclusionsTumour size, tumour grade, and depth of tumour invasion were independent risk factors for early gastric cancer LNM. ML predicted LNM risk more accurately, and the RDA model had the best predictive performance and could better guide clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions.
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- HuaKai Tian
- Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Day Ward, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- *Correspondence: HouQun Ying
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Hui Li
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Ying HQ, Sun F, Liao YC, Cai D, Yang Y, Cheng XX. The value of circulating fibrinogen-to-pre-albumin ratio in predicting survival and benefit from chemotherapy in colorectal cancer. Ther Adv Med Oncol 2021; 13:17588359211022886. [PMID: 34262615 PMCID: PMC8243139 DOI: 10.1177/17588359211022886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Background: To evaluate the prognostic role of circulating fibrinogen-to-pre-albumin
(FPR) in colorectal cancer (CRC) with different tumor locations, and its
involvement in chemosensitivity and chemoresistance. Patients and methods: A total of 2917 eligible CRC patients from multiple centers were enrolled in
this prospective study, and 3 years follow-up was carried out to obtain the
outcome of these patients. Circulating fibrinogen (Fib), pre-albumin (pAlb),
carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) were
detected, and we calculated FPR according to the detected results.
Kaplan–Meier curves, Cox proportional regression, time-dependent receiver
operating characteristic curves, Harrell’s concordance index, calibration,
and decision curves were used to investigate the role of FPR in predicting
chemotherapy efficacy and prognosis of CRC patients. Results: Our results showed that cancer bulk, its infiltrating depth, and the distal
metastasis status of CRC determined circulating FPR levels. A high FPR was
associated with a significantly inferior prognosis, while the outcomes of
right-sided patients with stage III and IV CRC were worse than left-sided
cases. Only FPR was found to be a reliable and independent prognostic factor
for each stage of CRC. In addition, the prognostic FPR-contained nomograms
were superior to the non-FPR nomograms and FPR in predicting the outcomes in
both localized and metastatic CRC patients. The circulating FPR was
significantly associated with chemotherapeutic efficacy in stage III and IV
CRC patients. In particular, low-grade (FPR < 15) and medium-grade
(15 ⩽ FPR < 20) FPR patients exhibited a complete response to
chemotherapy and attenuated chemosensitivity, respectively; in contrast,
high-grade inflammation (FPR ⩾ 20) conferred resistance to the
treatment. Conclusion: Circulating FPR is a robust and independent prognostic factor, a simple and
economically-friendly predictor of chemotherapy efficacy within cases of
localized and metastatic CRC. FPR-contained nomograms are more effective in
predicting the prognosis of these patients. FPR and the nomogram can be
recommended for the evaluation of chemotherapy efficacy and to aid
decision-making associated with the management of these patients.
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- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive
Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi,
China
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- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive
Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi,
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Ying HQ, Liao YC, Luo YR, Xiong G, Huang Y, Nie RW, Xiong CF, Cheng XX. Cancer-elicited inflammation attenuates response and outcome in tyrosine kinase inhibitor naive patients with advanced NSCLC. Pharmacol Res 2021; 170:105734. [PMID: 34157424 DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2021.105734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Cancer elicited inflammation is the main environmental cause leading to carcinogenesis and metastasis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Roles of the inflammatory biomarker in predicting the clinical efficacy of tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) and prognosis of naive patients with advanced NSCLC need to be determined, and the best inflammatory predicted biomarker remains unknown. METHODS A total of 178 eligible advanced NSCLC patients (124 and 54 cases within discovery and validation cohorts, respectively) who received first-line EGFR-TKI between July of 2014 and October of 2020 were enrolled in the present study. We detected circulating immune cell counting, albumin (Alb), pre-albumin (pAlb), ALP, AST, LDH, GGT, HDL-c, and fibrinogen (Fib) concentrations, and calculated 22 inflammatory ratios and scores. Logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess the impact of these ratios and scores on objective response and disease control rate (ORR and DCR) as well as progression-free survival (PFS) in these patients. RESULTS Twenty-five percentage and 24.07% of NSCLC patients were observed objective response to the treatment of first-line EGFR-TKI in discovery and validation cohort, respectively. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression showed that high PLR, NPS, SII, SIS, mSIS, GLR and FPR as well as low PNI were significantly associated with poor PFS in discovery cohort. However, only high SII and FPR were found to be associated with unsatisfactory outcome in validation cohort. Time-dependent areas under ROC of FPR were 0.702 (0.517-0.888) in discovery cohort, and 0.767 (0.613-0.921) in validation cohort, which were extremely higher than the other biomarkers. The patients with FPR-SII combined score 2 harbored worse prognosis compared to the combined score 0 in discovery (plog-rank = 0.003, adjusted HR = 2.888, 95%CI = 1.500-5.560) and validation cohort (plog-rank = 0.001, adjusted HR = 3.769, 95%CI = 1.676-8.478) as well as overall population (plog-rank < 0.001, adjusted HR = 3.109, 95%CI = 1.878-5.147), and its time-dependent AUCs were 0.747 (0.594-0.900) and 0.815 (0.688-0.942) in the two cohorts, respectively, which were significantly higher than the single biomarker in the two cohorts. The patients with high FPR and FPR-SII score harbored worse DCR than the low patients in the two cohorts and overall population, respectively. Moreover, the similar poor survival was observed in advanced high-FPR NSCLC patients with different treatment options, however, the survival of low-FPR patients with treatment of single TKI, radiotherapy or chemotherapy or radio-chemotherapy combined TKI was good compared to the high-FPR patients with radio-chemotherapy combined TKI, and the survival differences were observed between TKI (plog-rank < 0.001) or radiotherapy combined TKI (plog-rank = 0.014) treated low-FPR patients and the high FPR patients. Additionally, FPR-SII combined score could monitor the progression of the disease in real-time, and the median month of the positive score appearance was significantly earlier than CT/MRI detection (p < 0.001 for 3 months vs. 13 months). CONCLUSIONS High-grade cancer elicited inflammation could attenuates response and outcome in tyrosine kinase inhibitor naive patients with advanced NSCLC. FPR-SII combined score was the best inflammatory biomarker to monitor and predict the progression of advanced NSCLC patients with treatment of TKI.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Biological Resource Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China; Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Information, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Biological Resource Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China; Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China.
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Ying HQ, You XH, Liao YC, Sun F, Cheng XX. High-Grade Inflammation Attenuates Chemosensitivity and Confers to Poor Survival of Surgical Stage III CRC Patients. Front Oncol 2021; 11:580455. [PMID: 33968712 PMCID: PMC8103203 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.580455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Background: Heterogeneous clinical and molecular characteristics are reported in colorectal cancer (CRC) with different tumor laterality. However, the outcome of left- and right-sided patients with stage I–III CRC and the role of chronic inflammation in survival differences between them remain unclear. Method: A prospective study including 1,181 surgical patients with stage I–III CRC was carried out to investigate the involvement of circulating fibrinogen-to-pre-albumin (Alb) ratio (FPR) and primary tumor sidedness in the clinical outcome of those patients. We further investigated the effect of FPR on adjuvant chemotherapy response and recurrence in stage III patients. Results: Our study showed that the right tumor location was significantly associated with poor recurrence-free survival (RFS) (p = 0.04, adjusted HR = 1.41, 95% CI = 1.02–1.94) and overall survival (OS) (p = 0.04, adjusted HR = 1.55, 95% CI = 1.01–2.38) only in the stage III disease. In these patients, T4 stage distribution (83.39 vs. 70.94%, p < 0.01) within right-sided cases was significantly higher than left-sided patients. Moreover, preoperative FPR within right-sidedness (p < 0.01), T4 stage (p < 0.05), and large cancer bulk (≥5 cm) (p < 0.05) subgroups was significantly elevated compared to their counterparts, and it was gradually rising following the increased cancer bulk (p trend < 0.01). High-FPR distribution (52.30 vs. 27.00%, p < 0.01) within right-sided patients with the stage III disease was significantly higher than that in the left-sided cases. RFS (plog−rank < 0.01) and OS (plog−rank < 0.01) of the high-FPR patients were extremely inferior to the low-FPR cases, and the significant associations were observed when they were adjusted by other confounders including primary tumor location (p < 0.01, adjusted HR = 1.96, 95% CI = 1.42–2.70 for RFS; p < 0.01, adjusted HR = 2.44, 95% CI = 1.59–3.75 for OS). Additionally, RFS of adjuvant chemotherapy-treated high-FPR patients was superior to the patients without chemotherapy (plog−rank = 0.01) but was inferior to the low-FPR patients undergoing the treatment, especially in the 5-FU- and XELOX-treated subgroup. Conclusion: These findings indicate that chronic high-grade inflammation weakens chemotherapy efficacy and contributes to the poor prognosis of stage III surgical CRC patients.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.,Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Biological Resource Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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Liao YC, Ying HQ, Huang Y, Luo YR, Xiong CF, Nie RW, Li XJ, Cheng XX. Role of Chronic Inflammatory Ratios in Predicting Recurrence of Resected Patients with Stage I-III Mucinous Colorectal Adenocarcinoma. Cancer Manag Res 2021; 13:3455-3464. [PMID: 33907468 PMCID: PMC8068493 DOI: 10.2147/cmar.s303758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Cancer-related inflammation is the main cause of the progression of mucinous colorectal adenocarcinoma (MCA). Circulating fibrinogen-to-pre-albumin ratio (FPR) is associated with the clinical outcome in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the prognostic role of FPR and which is the best inflammatory prognostic biomarker within MCA remain unknown. Methods We enrolled 157 patients with stage I–III MCA in this study. Kaplan-Meier curve, Cox regression, and time-dependent receiver operation characteristic curve analysis were performed to assess the prognostic value and efficacy of the neutrophil-to-albumin ratio (NAR), neutrophil-to-pre-albumin ratio (NPAR), albumin-to-alkaline phosphatase ratio (AAPR), albumin-to-globulin ratio (AGR), albumin-to-fibrinogen ratio (AFR), and FPR in these patients. Results We found that NAR, NPAR, and FPR were significantly associated with unsatisfactory recurrence-free survival (RFS) in patients with stage I–III MCA, and the predicted efficacy of FPR was superior to that of the other two inflammatory biomarkers. Moreover, patients with a high combined TNM-CA199-FPR score had worse outcomes, with a high predicted efficacy of up to 0.779 (0.703–0.856). Using FPR, the patient was monitored for the recurrence up to two months earlier than that achieved using the common imaging techniques (4 vs 6 median months) in stage I–III MCA patients undergoing radical resection. Conclusion FPR is the preferred inflammatory biomarker and commonly used for predicting and monitoring recurrence in stage I–III MCA patients. The combined TNM-CA199-FPR score is an economical, simple, effective, and independent prognostic factor for localized disease.
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- Yu-Cui Liao
- School of Public Health; Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Kunming Children's Hospital, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, People's Republic of China
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- School of Public Health; Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, People's Republic of China
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Ying HQ, Liao YC, Sun F, Peng HX, Cheng XX. The Role of Cancer-Elicited Inflammatory Biomarkers in Predicting Early Recurrence Within Stage II-III Colorectal Cancer Patients After Curable Resection. J Inflamm Res 2021; 14:115-129. [PMID: 33500648 PMCID: PMC7822081 DOI: 10.2147/jir.s285129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Smoldering cancer-related inflammation attenuates chemotherapy efficacy and contributes to unsatisfactory outcome for patients of colorectal cancer (CRC). Various inflammation-based biomarkers were reported to predict the survival of the disease, however, it remains unclear which is the best inflammation-based biomarker. The aim of present study was to compare the prognostic role of those biomarkers and to establish superior survival score for post-recurrence survival in radically operative patients with stage II–III CRC. Patients and Methods Preoperative peripheral neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, platelet, serum albumin (Alb), pre-Alb, and plasma fibrinogen (Fib) were detected in the discovery and validation cohort which included a total of 1533 stage II–III surgical CRC patients. We calculated and compared fourteen inflammation-based biomarkers for predicting recurrence-free survival (RFS) of the patients with stage II–III CRC. Results In this study, the platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), lymphocyte to monocyte (LMR), systemic inflammation response index (SIRI), prognostic nutritional index (PNI), systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), modified systemic inflammation score (mSIS), fibrinogen and neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio score (F-NLR), ratio of Alb to Fib (AFR), and ratio of Fib to pre-Alb (FPR) were all related to the RFS of the patients in both discovery and validation cohorts, however, only the LMR, SIRI, PNI, mSIS, F-NLR, AFR and FPR remained independent predictors for RFS in multivariate analysis. Both the C-index of the FPR (0.629 for 36 months) and the areas under the time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves (0.625 for 12 months, 0.641 for both 24 and 0.637 months) showed that it was superior to the other inflammation-based prognostic scores for predicting the RFS of stage II–III surgical CRC patients. Moreover, elevated FPR was significantly associated with unsatisfactory RFS regardless of TNM stage and primary tumor location. Stage II low FPR patients showed the best RFS regardless of chemotherapy. The better RFS was observed in chemotherapy-treated stage II high FPR patients than those without the treatment, and the outcomes of patients with treatment of XELOX, capecitabine and XELOX were superior to the other regimens to treat patients in stage III low- and high-FPR populations, respectively. Additionally, the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)-FPR combined score one (adjusted HR=2.764, 95% CI=2.129–3.589) and two (adjusted HR=3.543, 95% CI=2.317–5.420) were extremely associated with RFS of these patients, and the predicted AUC of the combined score for 12, 24 and 36 months were 0.657, 0.657 and 0.653 in stage II–III patients, which were superior to the single CEA and FPR, respectively. Conclusion In conclusion, FPR is superior to the other inflammatory biomarkers as a useful recurrence indicator in stage II–III surgical CRC patients in terms of prognostic ability; it helps to choose the effective chemotherapy regimen and to increase the predicted efficacy of CEA and the combined CEA and FPR score could effectively predict recurrence of the patients.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Biological Resource Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, People's Republic of China.,Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210000, People's Republic of China
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- Biological Resource Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, People's Republic of China.,Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, People's Republic of China
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Wang W, Sun JF, Wang XZ, Ying HQ, You XH, Sun F. A Novel Prognostic Score Based on ZG16 for Predicting CRC Survival. Pharmgenomics Pers Med 2020; 13:735-747. [PMID: 33364813 PMCID: PMC7751443 DOI: 10.2147/pgpm.s275941] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
Abstract
Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the lethal malignant tumors worldwide. However, the underlying mechanism of CRC and its biomarkers remain unclear. The aim of this study was to identify the key genes associated with CRC and to further explore their prognostic significance. Methods Four expression profile datasets (GSE41657, GSE74602, GSE113513, and GSE40967) downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and one RNAseq dataset of CRC from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database were included in our study. The Cox model was utilized for univariate or multivariate survival analysis. GEPIA and HAP database were adopted for verification of DEGs (ZG16). The decision curve analysis (DCA) and time-dependent ROC were chosen for evaluating the prognostic effectiveness of biomarkers. Results In total, 88 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified, and the GO and KEGG enrichment analyses of DEGs were processed. After, the protein–protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed and 15 hub genes including ZG16 were identified. The differential expression of ZG16 between tumor and normal colorectal tissues were further verified in GEPIA and HAP database. Subsequent survival indicated that expression of ZG16 is negatively correlated with overall survival of OS and is an independent prognostic factor for CRC patients. Furthermore, the construction of a prognostic score containing ZG16, TNM stage and age exhibited superior effectiveness for predicting long-term survival of CRC patients. Additionally, our results were verified using the GSE40967 dataset, which indicated an improved performance of combined risk score based on ZG16 for predicting OS of CRC patients. Conclusion ZG16 is a potential parameter for predicting prognosis in CRC. Furthermore, a combination of ZG16, TNM stage, and age allows improved prognosis of CRC.
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- Wei Wang
- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.,Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Neonatology Department, Dongguan Eighth People's Hospital, Dongguan Children's Hospital, Dongguan 523000, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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You XH, Jiang YH, Fang Z, Sun F, Li Y, Wang W, Xia ZJ, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. Chemotherapy plus bevacizumab as an optimal first-line therapeutic treatment for patients with right-sided metastatic colon cancer: a meta-analysis of first-line clinical trials. ESMO Open 2020; 4:S2059-7029(20)30051-X. [PMID: 32132090 PMCID: PMC7064070 DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2019-000605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 11/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/27/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Monoclonal antibodies of anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have been recommended as first-line therapy for patients with left-sided metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) with wild-type RAS. The effect of tumour laterality on antivascular endothelial growth factor antibody and how to optimise targeted therapies for the right-sided cases remain controversial. Patients and methods A comprehensive meta-analysis enrolling 16 first-line clinical trials was performed to evaluate the efficacy of chemotherapy alone and chemotherapy plus targeted therapies for patients with mCRC with right primary tumour site, and we validated the results in metastatic setting (14 trials containing 4306 patients with unresectable mCRC). Results Here, we found that progression-free survival (PFS) (combined HR 1.30, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.44) and overall survival (OS) (combined HR 1.46, 95% CI 1.32 to 1.62) of the right-sided patients were significantly inferior to the left-sided individuals receiving chemotherapy alone in overall population, regardless of race. Similar results were also observed in metastatic setting. OS of patients with left-sided mCRC receiving chemotherapy plus bevacizumab was superior to the right-sided individuals (combined median survival ratio (MSR)=1.23, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.39 for overall population; combined MSR=1.23, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.45 for metastatic setting), especially for wild-type RAS and mixed population. Moreover, the right-sided patients benefited more from chemotherapy plus bevacizumab comparing with chemotherapy alone in both overall population and metastatic setting. Importantly, the RAS-wild right-sided patients achieved longer PFS (combined HR 0.67, 95% CI 0.52 to 0.88) and OS (combined HR 0.74, 95% CI 0.56 to 0.98) from chemotherapy plus bevacizumab comparing with chemotherapy associated with anti-EGFR agents. Conclusions Patients with right-sided mCRC show impaired chemosensitivity, and chemotherapy plus bevacizumab can be an optimal first-line therapeutic regimen for the RAS-wild patients with right-sided mCRC.
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- Xia-Hong You
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanchang University Medical College, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanchang University Medical College, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanchang University Medical College, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanchang University Medical College, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China .,Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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Chen QG, Zhang L, Sun F, Li SQ, You XH, Jiang YH, Yang WM, Zhong QH, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. Elevated FPR confers to radiochemoresistance and predicts clinical efficacy and outcome of metastatic colorectal cancer patients. Aging (Albany NY) 2020; 11:1716-1732. [PMID: 30897064 PMCID: PMC6461181 DOI: 10.18632/aging.101864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Association of chronic inflammation, primary tumor sidedness, adjuvant therapy and survival of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) remains unclear. Circulating inflammatory cell, fibrinogen (Fib), albumin (Alb), pre-albumin (pAlb), Alb/Fib (AFR) and Fib/pAlb (FPR) were detected, and clinical outcome was obtained to determine the predictive, prognostic and monitoring roles of them in discovery and validation cohort. We found that elevated FPR, low AFR and poor survival was observed in right-sided mCRC comparing to the left-sided disease, elevated FPR harbored the highest areas under curve to independently predict poor progression-free survival and overall survival in overall and left-sided mCRC case in two cohorts. No survival difference was examined between the two-sided patients in subgroups stratified by FPR. Radiochemoresistance was observed in high FPR case. However, the patient could benefit from bevacizumab plus radiochemotherapy. Low FPR patient showed the best survival with treatment of palliative resection plus radiochemotherapy. Moreover, circulating FPR was significantly increased ahead imaging confirmed progression and it reached up to the highest value within three months before death. Additionally, c-indexes of the prognostic nomograms including FPR were significantly higher than those without it. These findings indicated that FPR was an effective and independent factor to predict progression, prognosis and to precisely identify the patient to receive optimal therapeutic regimen.
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- Qing-Gen Chen
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchan, Jiangxi 330006, China
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Ying HQ. [Military Sanitation and Public health governance by Yuan Shikai]. Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi 2019; 49:199-205. [PMID: 31495158 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0255-7053.2019.04.002] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Based on memorial to emperors, letters, official documents and telegrams between Yuan Shikai and his colleagues, this essay reviews Yuan's practice on governance of army medical service and public health.During his army garrisoning in Korea, Yuan Shikai hired physicians to take medical care for wounded soldiers, and conducted port quarantine. In Tianjin, Yuan Shikai set physical examination standards, operated army medical schools. During the Republican era, as the President of China, Yuan Shikai issued laws on prevention of infectious diseases, prohibited opium-smoking, selected excellent Chinese physicians as technocrats. He improved the management of Chinese public health.
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- H Q Ying
- Menghe Medical Institute, Changzhou TCM Hospital, Changzhou 213003, China
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Li SQ, You XH, Sun F, Xia ZJ, Fang Z, Wang W, Li Y, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. Albumin to fibrinogen ratio and fibrinogen to pre-albumin ratio are economical, simple and promising prognostic factors for solid malignancy. J Thorac Dis 2019; 11:S2036-S2038. [PMID: 31632821 DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2019.08.96] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Shu-Qi Li
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China.,Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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You XH, Wen C, Xia ZJ, Sun F, Li Y, Wang W, Fang Z, Chen QG, Zhang L, Jiang YH, Wang XZ, Ying HQ, Zong Z. Primary Tumor Sidedness Predicts Bevacizumab Benefit in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients. Front Oncol 2019; 9:723. [PMID: 31475100 PMCID: PMC6702298 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The emerging debate between primary tumor location and clinical outcome of bevacizumab treated metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) continues. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association between the primary tumor location and clinical outcome of 115 mCRC patients receiving bevacizumab based treatment. A meta-analysis including 21 studies was carried out to confirm the conclusion. In our prospective study, we found that right-sided mCRC commonly occurred in older cases (p = 0.03) with multiple-site metastasis (p = 0.03). Progression-free survival (PFS) of the left-sided patients undergoing bevacizumab plus a FOLFIRI regimen was superior to the right-sided cases (p = 0.03, crude HR = 0.31, 95%CI = 0.11-0.87; adjusted HR = 0.21, 95%CI = 0.06-0.66). The meta-analysis confirmed that efficacy of bevacizumab-based treatment in left-sided mCRC patients was better than the right-sided cases in the overall population (P h = 0.24, combined OR = 1.36, 95%CI = 1.07-1.72), RAS/BRAF wild-type (P h = 0.19, combined OR = 1.66, 95%CI = 1.17-2.34), clinical trial (P h = 0.23, combined OR = 1.42, 95%CI = 1.07-1.88), Caucasian population (P h = 0.18, combined OR = 1.37, 95%CI = 1.02-1.85) and first-line (P h = 0.19, combined OR = 1.48, 95%CI = 1.13-1.96) subgroups. Improved survival of bevacizumab plus chemotherapy treated left-sided mCRC patients was observed in the overall population [P h < 0.01, combined MSR = 1.09, 95%CI = 1.00-1.18 for PFS; P h < 0.01, combined MSR = 1.24, 95%CI = 1.13-1.36 for overall survival (OS)], especially in the RAS/BRAF wild-type (P h = 0.09, combined MSR = 1.10, 95%CI = 1.03-1.19 for PFS; P h = 0.02, combined MSR = 1.34, 95%CI = 1.21-1.49 for OS). These findings indicate that primary tumor sidedness can predict clinical outcome of bevacizumab-treated RAS/BRAF wild-type mCRC patients and the left-sided patients may benefit more from bevacizumab plus FOLFIRI.
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- Xia-Hong You
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Cancer Hospital, Nanchang, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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Gao QF, Qiu JC, Huang XH, Xu YM, Li SQ, Sun F, Zhang J, Yang WM, Min QH, Jiang YH, Chen QG, Zhang L, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. The predictive and prognostic role of a novel ADS score in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients undergoing esophagectomy. Cancer Cell Int 2018; 18:153. [PMID: 30305803 PMCID: PMC6171189 DOI: 10.1186/s12935-018-0648-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Background Chronic inflammation is deemed to play a significant effect on initiation and progression of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In current study, we investigated the prognostic and predictive role of albumin (Alb) to fibrinogen (Fib) ratio (AFR) and a novel AFR–Alb-derived neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (dNLR) score (ADS) in ESCC patients undergoing esophagectomy and compared them with Fib, Alb, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), dNLR, platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR). Materials and methods A total of 153 clinical confirmed ESCC patients undergoing esophagectomy between January 2011 and December 2013 were included in present study. We detected preoperative Alb, Fib and neutrophil, monocyte, lymphocyte and platelet count, and obtained overall survival (OS) by 3 years’ follow-up in the cases. X-tile software, Kaplan–Meier curve, Cox regression and predicted nomogram were used to evaluate the predictive and prognostic role of them in ESCC patients. Results The optimal cut-off values of Fib, Alb, AFR, NLR, dNLR, PLR and LMR were 3.2 mg/dL, 38.2 g/L, 9.3, 2.1, 4.3, 145.9 and 2.3, respectively. High levels of Fib [(adjusted hazard ratio (HR) = 2.148, 95% confidential interval (CI) (1.229–3.753)], dNLR (adjusted HR = 2.338, 95% CI 1.626–5.308) and PLR (adjusted HR = 1.964, 95% CI 1.129–3.415) as well as low AFR (adjusted HR = 2.381, 95% CI 1.152–4.926) and Alb (adjusted HR = 2.398, 95% CI 1.342–4.273) were significantly associated with decreased OS in ESCC patients. The survival predictive areas under the time-dependent receiver operating characteristics curve of AFR, dNLR and Alb were higher than Fib and PLR, respectively. High ADS score was significantly associated with short 3 years’ OS of ESCC patients (adjusted HR = 2.94, 95% CI 1.70–5.08). Moreover, OS of ESCC patients receiving adjuvant radio-chemotherapy was longer than those without the treatment in high ADS score subgroup (p = 0.001), however, no significant survival difference was observed in the patients with or without treatment radio-chemotherapy (p = 0.297). Additionally, a significant difference was observed in c-index values of the nomograms including or without ADS (0.720 vs. 0.670, p < 0.05). Conclusions Preoperative ADS was a prospective biomarker to predict clinical efficacy of adjuvant radio-chemotherapy and clinical prognosis of ESCC patients undergoing esophagectomy, and the score could apparently improve predicted efficacy of the nomogram. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12935-018-0648-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Qiu-Fang Gao
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006 Jiangxi China
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Liu XF, Zhou LY, Wei ZH, Liu JX, Li A, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. The diagnostic role of circulating inflammation-based biomarker in gallbladder carcinoma. Biomark Med 2018; 12:1095-1103. [PMID: 30191731 DOI: 10.2217/bmm-2018-0049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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: 12/15/2022] Open
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AIM To investigate the diagnostic roles of circulating inflammatory biomarkers in gallbladder carcinoma (GBC). PATIENTS & METHODS Circulating inflammatory cell count, fibrinogen, albumin, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and CA199 were measured, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), dNLR, PLR, LMR and Alb-to-fib (AFR) were calculated in 306 GBC patients, 306 healthy and 305 benign controls. The reciever operating characteristic curve was used to determine diagnostic accuracy of them. RESULTS The area under curves of combined AFR, dNLR and lymphocyte were 0.943 and 0.985 for diagnosis of GBC from healthy and polyp controls, area under curve of combined AFR, CEA and CA199 was 0.90 for diagnosis of GBC from the cholecystitis patients. CONCLUSION Circulating AFR combined with lymphocyte and dNLR or CEA and CA199 could effectively distinguish GBC from the healthy and benign controls.
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- Xi-Fen Liu
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, the second affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China.,Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, the second affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China.,Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, the second affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China.,Queen Mary School, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, the second affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China.,Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, the second affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China.,Queen Mary School, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, the second affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, the second affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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Zhang L, Chen QG, Li SQ, Zhang J, Min QH, Gao QF, Sun F, Jiang YH, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. Preoperative fibrinogen to prealbumin ratio as a novel predictor for clinical outcome of hepatocellular carcinoma. Future Oncol 2018; 15:13-22. [PMID: 30139267 DOI: 10.2217/fon-2018-0376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [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: 02/07/2023] Open
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AIM To investigate prognostic value of preoperative inflammatory biomarkers in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). PATIENTS & METHODS Preoperative circulating fibrinogen, prealbumin, fibrinogen to prealbumin ratio (FPR), neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, derived neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, lymphocyte to monocyte ratio, platelet to lymphocyte ratio were detected and calculated in 230 HCC patients. X-tile software, Kaplan-Meier curve, Cox regression, time-dependent receiver-operating characteristic were used to explored prognostic roles of them in HCC. RESULTS Multivariate Cox regression showed that high FPR was significantly associated with decreased recurrence-free survival (p = 0.034) and overall survival (p < 0.001) within HCC patients. FPR generated the largest area under curve of time-dependent receiver-operating characteristic comparing to the other biomarkers. Overall survival of HCC patients receiving chemotherapy was superior to the cases without receiving chemotherapy only in high FPR subgroup (p = 0.028). CONCLUSION Preoperative FPR was superior to other biomarkers to independently predict survival of HCC patients, and it could identify the patients who could benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy.
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- Lei Zhang
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, PR China
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Sun F, Tan YA, Gao QF, Li SQ, Zhang J, Chen QG, Jiang YH, Zhang L, Ying HQ, Wang XZ. Circulating fibrinogen to pre-albumin ratio is a promising biomarker for diagnosis of colorectal cancer. J Clin Lab Anal 2018; 33:e22635. [PMID: 30047185 DOI: 10.1002/jcla.22635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [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: 04/23/2018] [Revised: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Inflammation and nutrition are closely associated with initiation and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC). This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of the FAR (FAR = 100*Fibrinogen/Albumin) and FPR (FPR = Fibrinogen/pre-Albumin) in CRC. METHODS Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), FPR, and FAR were calculated in 455 newly diagnosed CRC patients, 455 healthy individuals, and 455 benign controls with colorectal polyp. The diagnostic value of biomarker for CRC was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC). Logistic regression analysis was adopted to assess the risk factors for telling CRC apart from benign disease. Moreover, the combined biomarkers were used for discriminating between CRC and benign disease. RESULTS Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, FAR, and FPR were significantly higher in CRC patients compared with the benign or healthy controls (P < 0.05). ROC analysis showed that the diagnostic efficacy of FAR and FPR were better than NLR for CRC. Besides, FPR, NLR, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA199) were markedly associated with differentiation of benign disease and CRC in the logistic regression analysis. And the combination of FPR, CEA, and CA199 had the maximum area under the ROC curve (AUC) in separating CRC from benign disease (AUC = 0.845, Sensitivity = 67.9%, Specificity = 85.3%, Positive Predictive Value = 83.5%, Negative Predictive Value = 70.9%). CONCLUSIONS Fibrinogen/pre-Albumin could be a useful CRC diagnostic biomarker, and the combination of FPR, CEA, and CA199 could significantly improve the diagnostic efficacy in discriminating CRC from the benign colorectal disease.
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- Fan Sun
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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Yang WM, Zhang WH, Ying HQ, Xu YM, Zhang J, Min QH, Huang B, Lin J, Chen JJ, Wang XZ. Two new inflammatory markers associated with disease activity score-28 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Albumin to fibrinogen ratio and C-reactive protein to albumin ratio. Int Immunopharmacol 2018; 62:293-298. [PMID: 30048859 DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2018.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [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: 06/07/2018] [Revised: 07/07/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND The albumin to fibrinogen ratio (AFR) and C-reactive protein to albumin ratio (CAR) have emerged as useful biomarkers to predict systemic inflammation. The aim here is to investigate the relation between AFR/CAR and Disease Activity Score of 28 joints (DAS 28) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS This retrospective study included 160 patients with RA and 159 healthy controls. We divided the RA patients into two groups according to the DAS 28-ESR score. Group 1 included 40 patients with a score of lower than 2.6 (patients in remission) and Group 2 included 120 patients with a score of 2.6 or higher (patients with active disease). The correlations between AFR, CAR and the disease activity were analyzed. RESULTS For RA patients, the AFR was lower than those in the control group (P < 0.001). Patients in group 2 had higher CAR than those in group 1 (P < 0.001). The AFR was lower in group 2 than that in group 1. A positively correlation was observed between DAS 28-ESR score and CAR (r = 0.645, P < 0.001), while the correlation between DAS 28-ESR and AFR (r = -0.836, P < 0.001) was negative. AFR was related with decreased risk of RA disease activity (EXP (B) = 0.33, 95% CI (0.21-0.53), P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS AFR and CAR are two novel inflammatory markers for monitoring disease activity in patients with RA.
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- Wei-Ming Yang
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Oncology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China.
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China.
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Sun F, Peng HX, Gao QF, Li SQ, Zhang J, Chen QG, Jiang YH, Zhang L, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. Preoperative circulating FPR and CCF score are promising biomarkers for predicting clinical outcome of stage II-III colorectal cancer patients. Cancer Manag Res 2018; 10:2151-2161. [PMID: 30050325 PMCID: PMC6055907 DOI: 10.2147/cmar.s167398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Introduction Inflammation and nutrition are considered as two important causes leading to the progression and poor survival of colorectal cancer (CRC). The objective of this study is to investigate the prognostic significance of preoperative albumin-to-fibrinogen ratio (AFR), fibrinogen-to-pre-albumin ratio (FPR), fibrinogen (Fib), albumin (Alb), and pre-albumin (pre-Alb) in CRC individuals. Materials and methods In this study, 3 years’ follow-up was carried out in 702 stage I–III resected CRC patients diagnosed between January 2008 and December 2013. The optimal cutoff points and prognostic values of AFR, FPR, Fib, Alb, pre-Alb, and a novel carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)-carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA199)-FPR (CCF) score were assessed by X-tile software, Kaplan–Meier curve, and Cox regression model. We established the CRC prognostic nomogram, and its predictive efficacy was determined by Harrell’s concordance index (c-index). Results Our results showed that high FPR was obviously correlated with poor survival of CRC patients. The prognostic predictive efficacy of CCF score was superior to FPR, CEA, CA199, CEA-CA199 (CCI), and CEA-FPR (CFI) score. Moreover, stage II–III patients harboring high FPR or elevated CCF (score≥1) could benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy, rather than those with low FPR or CCF (score=0). Additionally, the c-index (0.728) of the nomogram containing CCF score was significantly higher than that (0.626) without it (p<0.01). Conclusion These findings illustrated that FPR and CCF score were promising biomarkers to predict the prognosis of CRC and to classify the stage II–III patients who could benefit from the adjuvant chemotherapy.
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- Fan Sun
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China, ;
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Li SQ, Jiang YH, Lin J, Zhang J, Sun F, Gao QF, Zhang L, Chen QG, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. Albumin-to-fibrinogen ratio as a promising biomarker to predict clinical outcome of non-small cell lung cancer individuals. Cancer Med 2018. [PMID: 29533009 PMCID: PMC5911606 DOI: 10.1002/cam4.1428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Chronic inflammation is one of the critical causes to promote the initiation and metastasis of solid malignancies including lung cancer (LC). Here, we aimed to investigate the prognostic roles of albumin (Alb)-to-fibrinogen (Fib) ratio (AFR), Fib and Alb in LC and to establish a novel effective nomogram combined with AFR. Four hundred twelve LC patients diagnosed between February 2005 and December 2014 were recruited in this prospective study. The prognostic roles of AFR, Fib, Alb, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) were identified by X-tile software, Kaplan-Meier curve, Cox regression model, and time-dependent ROC. Pretreatment high circulating Fib, low AFR, and Alb were significantly associated with increased risk of death for LC patients, especially for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in all stages. The area under curves (AUCs) of AFR, Fib, and NLR were higher than them within Alb and PLR for predicting the survival of NSCLC patients. Moreover, we found that clinical outcome of high AFR patient with chemo-radiotherapy was superior to low AFR patient; overall survival rate of stage II-III NSCLC patients undergoing chemo-radiotherapy was significantly lower than the surgical patients with treatment of adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy(P = 0.001) in low AFR subgroup. On the contrary, clinical outcome of the patients receiving chemo-radiotherapy was the same to the patients undergoing surgery and adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy (P = 0.405) in high AFR subgroup. In addition, c-index of predicted nomogram including AFR (0.717) for NSCLC patients with treatment of chemo-radiotherapy was higher than that without AFR (0.707). Our findings demonstrated that circulating pretreatment AFR might be a potential biomarker to predict clinical efficacy of surgical resection and adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy and be a prognostic biomarker for NSCLC individuals.
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- Shu-Qi Li
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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Ying HQ, Peng HX, He BS, Pan YQ, Wang F, Sun HL, Liu X, Chen J, Lin K, Wang SK. MiR-608, pre-miR-124-1 and pre-miR26a-1 polymorphisms modify susceptibility and recurrence-free survival in surgically resected CRC individuals. Oncotarget 2018; 7:75865-75873. [PMID: 27713147 PMCID: PMC5342784 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.12422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2015] [Accepted: 09/25/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Genetic variation within microRNA (miRNA) may result in its abnormal folding or aberrant expression, contributing to colorectal turmorigenesis and metastasis. However, the association of six polymorphisms (miR-608 rs4919510, miR-499a rs3746444, miR-146a rs2910164, pre-miR-143 rs41291957, pre-miR-124-1 rs531564 and pre-miR-26a-1 rs7372209) with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, therapeutic response and survival remains unclear. A retrospective study was carried out to investigate the association in 1358 0-III stage resected CRC patients and 1079 healthy controls using Sequenom's MassARRAY platform. The results showed that rs4919510 was significantly associated with a decreased susceptibility to CRC in co-dominant, allele and recessive genetic models, and the protective role of rs4919510 allele G and genotype GG was more pronounced among stage 0-II cases; significant association between rs531564 and poor RFS was observed in cases undergoing adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy in co-dominant, allele and dominant models; moreover, there was a positive association between rs7372209 and recurrence-free survival in stage II cases in co-dominant and over-dominant models; additionally, a cumulative effect of rs531564 and rs7372209 at-risk genotypes with hazard ratio at 1.30 and 1.95 for one and two at-risk genotypes was examined in stage II cases, respectively. Our findings indicated that rs4919510 allele G and genotype GG were protective factors for 0-II stage CRC, rs7372209 and rs531564 could decrease RFS in II stage individuals and resected CRC patients receiving adjuvant chemo-radiology.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China.,Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, China.,Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China.,Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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Liu JX, Li A, Zhou LY, Liu XF, Wei ZH, Wang XZ, Ying HQ. Significance of combined preoperative serum Alb and dNLR for diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Future Oncol 2018; 14:229-239. [PMID: 29338337 DOI: 10.2217/fon-2017-0339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 12/17/2022] Open
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AIM To investigate diagnostic value of preoperative inflammatory biomarkers in pancreatic cancer (PCC). MATERIALS & METHODS Preoperative circulating Alb/Fib ratio, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), derived NLR (dNLR), platelet/lymphocyte ratio and lymphocyte/monocyte ratio were detected and calculated in 226 PCC individuals, 232 healthy controls and 142 additional cancer controls. Receiver-operating characteristic curve and area under the curve (AUC) were used to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of PCC. RESULTS Combined circulating dNLR and Alb could effectively improve the diagnosis of PCC (AUC = 0.931), single dNLR could distinguish early-stage PCC and the disease from healthy controls (AUC = 0.895) and additional cancer controls (AUC = 0.794). CONCLUSION Circulating dNLR was an effective biomarker for diagnosis and identification of early-stage PCC. Combined dNLR and Alb could improve the diagnostic efficacy of the disease.
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- Jia-Xin Liu
- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China.,Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China.,Queen Mary School, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China.,Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China.,Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China.,Queen Mary School, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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Zhang J, Li SQ, Liao ZH, Jiang YH, Chen QG, Huang B, Liu J, Xu YM, Lin J, Ying HQ, Wang XZ. Prognostic value of a novel FPR biomarker in patients with surgical stage II and III gastric cancer. Oncotarget 2017; 8:75195-75205. [PMID: 29088857 PMCID: PMC5650412 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.20661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Background Inflammation and nutrition are two main causes contributing to progression of gastric cancer (GC), and inflammatory biomarker may be presented as its valuable prognostic factor. Thus, this study was carried out to investigate the prognostic significance of preoperative circulating albumin/fibrinogen ratio (AFR), fibrinogen/pre-Albumin ratio (FPR), fibrinogen (Fib), albumin (Alb) and pre-Albumin (pAlb) in surgical GC. Materials and Methods Three hundred and sixty surgical stage II and III GC patients from June 2011 to December 2013 were enrolled in this retrospective study. X-tile software, Kaplan–Meier curve and Cox regression model were used to evaluate the prognostic role of them. A predictive nomogram was established to predict prognosis of overall survival (OS), and its accuracy was assessed by concordance index (c-index). Results Decreased Alb, pAlb, AFR and elevated FPR were significantly associated with shorter OS. FPR was identified as the most effective prognostic factor to predict 3-year’s OS by time-dependent ROC analysis. A long survival was observed in patients with low level of FPR and the prognosis of stage III FPR-low GC patients undergoing chemotherapy was significantly superior to the patients without the treatment (P=0.002). However, no difference of survival was examined in stage II subgroups stratified by FPR and high FRP of stage III patients with or not the treatment of chemotherapy. C-index of nomogram containing FPR (c-index=0.756) was high in comparison with the nomogram without FPR (c-index =0.748). Conclusion Preoperative FPR might be a feasible prognostic biomarker in surgical stage II and III GC and it could precisely distinguish stage III patients who appeared to obviously benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. Meanwhile established nomogram based on clinical parameters and FPR could improve its predictive efficacy.
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- Jing Zhang
- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
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Peng HX, Yang L, He BS, Pan YQ, Ying HQ, Sun HL, Lin K, Hu XX, Xu T, Wang SK. Combination of preoperative NLR, PLR and CEA could increase the diagnostic efficacy for I-III stage CRC. J Clin Lab Anal 2016; 31. [PMID: 27686880 DOI: 10.1002/jcla.22075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [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: 07/21/2016] [Accepted: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Inflammation plays an important role in the development and progression of CRC. The members of inflammatory biomarkers, preoperative NLR and PLR, have been proved by numerous studies to be promising prognostic biomarkers for CRC. However, the diagnostic value of the two biomarkers in CRC remains unknown, and no study reported the combined diagnostic efficacy of NLR, PLR and CEA. METHODS Five hundred and fifty-nine patients with I-III stage CRC undergoing surgical resection and 559 gender- and age-matched healthy controls were enrolled in this retrospective study. NLR and PLR were calculated from preoperative peripheral blood cell count detected using white blood cell five classification by Sysmex XT-1800i Automated Hematology System and serum CEA were measured by electrochemiluminescence by ELECSYS 2010. The diagnostic performance of NLR, PLR and CEA for CRC was evaluated by ROC curve. RESULTS Levels of NLR and PLR in the cases were significantly higher than them in the healthy controls. ROC curves comparison analyses showed that the diagnostic efficacy of NLR (AUC=.755, 95%CI=.728-.780) alone for CRC was significantly higher than PLR (AUC=.723, 95%CI=.696-.749, P=.037) and CEA (AUC=.690, 95%CI=.662-.717, P=.002) alone. In addition, the diagnostic efficacy of the combination of NLR, PLR and CEA(AUC=.831, 95%CI=.807-.852)for CRC was not only significantly higher than NLR alone but also higher than any combinations of the two of these three biomarkers (P<.05). Moreover, the NLR and PLR in the patients with TNM stage I/II was higher than that in the healthy controls, and patients with stage III had a higher NLR and PLR than those with stage I/II, but no significant difference was observed. CONCLUSION Our study indicated that preoperative NLR could be a CRC diagnostic biomarker, even for early stage CRC, and the combination of NLR, PLR and CEA could significantly improve the diagnostic efficacy.
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- Hong-Xin Peng
- Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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Ying HQ, Wang F, Chen XL, He BS, Pan YQ, Jie C, Liu X, Cao WJ, Peng HX, Lin K, Wang SK. FCGR2A, FCGR3A polymorphisms and therapeutic efficacy of anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody in metastatic colorectal cancer. Oncotarget 2016; 6:28071-83. [PMID: 26363448 PMCID: PMC4695045 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.4872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies (mAb) such as cetuximab, panitumumab are one kind of efficacious targeted drugs in treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). However, only a small proportion of patients harbored wild-KRAS genotype can benefit from it. We hypothesized that personal genetic heterogeneity might be the main cause leading to obvious difference in its clinical efficacy. A retrospective study including 82 mCRC patients treated with chemotherapy plus cetuximab and a comprehensive meta-analysis containing 2831 cases within sixteen eligible studies were conducted to investigate the possible association between FCGR2A H131R and FCGR3A V158F and clinical outcome of mCRC patients treated with anti-EGFR mAb based therapy. Results of the retrospective study showed that H131R within FCGR2A or V158F within FCGR3A were not associated with clinical outcome in 82 KRAS wild chemorefractory mCRC patients in co-dominant, dominant, recessive, over-dominant, allele genetic models. However, the comprehensive meta-analysis with the largest of sample size obtained the significant result between FCGR3A V158F and PFS (FV/VV vs. FF: Ph = 0.027, MSR = 0.680, 95%CI = 0.549−0.842 in overall population; Ph = 0.12, MSR = 0.728, 95%CI = 0.648–0.818 in KRAS wild population) and OS (VV vs. FF: Ph < 0.001, MSR = 0.733, 95%CI = 0.578−0.930 in overall population). These findings indicate that KRAS wild chemorefractory mCRC individual harbored genotype FF of V158Fcan benefit from anti-EGFR mAb adjuvant therapy in terms of PFS and OS, and it may be useful genetic biomarker to predict clinical survival of mCRC individuals with anti-EGFR mAb based therapy.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Medical College, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, China.,Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Pingxiang People's Hospital, Pingxiang, 337055, Jiangxi, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China.,Life Scientific College, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Digestion, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu China
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- Medical College, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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Peng HX, Lin K, He BS, Pan YQ, Ying HQ, Hu XX, Xu T, Wang SK. Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio could be a promising prognostic biomarker for survival of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. FEBS Open Bio 2016; 6:742-50. [PMID: 27398314 PMCID: PMC4932454 DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.12083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Revised: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Inflammation is one of the most important causes leading to colorectal carcinogenesis, and inflammatory biomarkers such as the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) might predict survival in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the prognostic value of PLR in CRC patients remains controversial. The prognostic value of PLR was comprehensively analyzed in 12 articles including 3541 CRC patients (10 for overall survival (OS), seven for disease-free survival (DFS), three for recurrence-free survival (RFS), and three for cancer-specific survival (CSS)) in this study. The overall pooled hazard ratios (HRs) of PLR for OS, DFS, and CSS were significant at 1.29 (95% confidence interval, CI = 1.13-1.47, P H = 0.149), 1.43 (95% CI = 1.03-1.97, P H = 0.025), and 1.26 (95% CI = 1.04-1.52, P H = 0.223), respectively. However, there was no evidence of significance for RFS (HR = 1.29, 95% CI = 0.98-1.70, P H = 0.231) in our study. Stratified analyses indicated elevated PLR was a predictor of poor OS (metastatic patients) and DFS (Caucasian population) and was also significantly associated with OS in univariate analysis (HR = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.14-1.60, P H = 0.532) and those only treated surgically (HR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.10-1.70, P H = 1.080). However, our findings indicated that elevated PLR is a promising prognostic biomarker for colorectal cancer, especially in metastatic Caucasian CRC patients.
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- Hong-Xin Peng
- Medical School of Southeast University Nanjing Jiangsu China; Central Laboratory Nanjing First Hospital Nanjing Medical University Nanjing Jiangsu China
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- Central Laboratory Nanjing First Hospital Nanjing Medical University Nanjing Jiangsu China
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- Central Laboratory Nanjing First Hospital Nanjing Medical University Nanjing Jiangsu China
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- Central Laboratory Nanjing First Hospital Nanjing Medical University Nanjing Jiangsu China
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- Medical School of Southeast University Nanjing Jiangsu China; Central Laboratory Nanjing First Hospital Nanjing Medical University Nanjing Jiangsu China
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- Medical School of Southeast University Nanjing Jiangsu China; Central Laboratory Nanjing First Hospital Nanjing Medical University Nanjing Jiangsu China
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- Central Laboratory Nanjing First Hospital Nanjing Medical University Nanjing Jiangsu China
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- Central Laboratory Nanjing First Hospital Nanjing Medical University Nanjing Jiangsu China
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Chen J, Liu X, Pan YQ, He BS, Ying HQ, Sun HL, Deng QW, Lin K, Peng HX, Wang SK. Analysis of Diagnostic Value of YKL-40 in Ovarian Cancer. Int J Gynecol Cancer 2016:1. [PMID: 27101587 DOI: 10.1097/igc.0000000000000717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Early diagnosis of ovarian cancer is crucial in clinical practice but is difficult. Accumulating studies have investigated the utility of YKL-40 in early detection of ovarian cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the overall accuracy of YKL-40 in diagnosis of ovarian cancer through a meta-analysis of published studies. METHODS A comprehensive search of related literature was performed in PubMed, Web of Science, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases. Meta-DiSc 1.4 and STATA 11.0 were selected for data analysis, and Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies tool version 2 was used to assess the quality of included studies. Data from selected studies were pooled to yield summary sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative likelihood ratios, diagnostic odds ratio, and summary receiver operating characteristic curve. RESULTS A total of 13 studies dating up to May 2015 with 1623 individuals were enrolled in the present study. The pooled characteristics of these studies were as follows: sensitivity 0.71 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.68-0.75), specificity 0.90 (95% CI, 0.88-0.92), positive likelihood ratio 7.24 (95% CI, 4.22-12.43), negative likelihood ratio 0.34 (95% CI, 0.27-0.42), and diagnostic odds ratio 24.93 (95% CI, 12.61-49.27), respectively. The area under the curve was 0.8471. CONCLUSIONS The results indicated that YKL-40 could be regarded as an effective biomarker for diagnosis of ovarian cancer.
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- Jie Chen
- *Department of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University; †Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University; and ‡Medical College, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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Ying HQ, Chen J, He BS, Pan YQ, Wang F, Deng QW, Sun HL, Liu X, Wang SK. The effect of BIM deletion polymorphism on intrinsic resistance and clinical outcome of cancer patient with kinase inhibitor therapy. Sci Rep 2015; 5:11348. [PMID: 26076815 PMCID: PMC4466895 DOI: 10.1038/srep11348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2015] [Accepted: 05/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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A common deletion polymorphism within B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia-lymphoma like 11 gene (BIM) was deemed to be a genetic cause leading to compromised kinase inhibitor therapeutic efficacy in cancer individuals. However, the results reported were not consistent. Thus, a comprehensive meta-analysis containing 12 eligible studies including 1,532 Asian patients was conducted to investigate a steady and reliable conclusion. The results showed that BIM deletion polymorphism was significantly associated with tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) clinical efficacy in term of response rate (Ph = 0.349, HR = 0.438, 95%CI = 0.274–0.699) and disease control rate (Ph = 0.941, HR = 0.370, 95%CI = 0.202–0.678) in EGFR-mutated NSCLC population, not in CML and HCC subgroups. Additionally, EGFR-mutated NSCLC patient harbored BIM deletion polymorphism was associated with a shorter progression-free survival (PFS) than those with BIM wild polymorphism (Ph = 0.580, adjusted HR = 2.194, 95%CI = 1.710–2.814). However, no significant association was examined between BIM deletion polymorphism and overall survival (OS) and toxic adverse events in EGFR-mutated NSCLC population and it was not associated with PFS and OS in HCC subgroup. These findings revealed that BIM deletion polymorphism might be a genetic cause of intrinsic resistance to TKI therapy and it could be emerged as an independent predictor to identify patients who would benefit from TKI targeted therapy in EGFR-mutated NSCLC.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- 1] Medical College, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, China [2] Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- 1] Life Scientific College, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, China [2] Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- 1] Life Scientific College, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, China [2] Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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Ying HQ, Sun HL, He BS, Pan YQ, Wang F, Deng QW, Chen J, Liu X, Wang SK. Circulating vitamin D binding protein, total, free and bioavailable 25-hydroxyvitamin D and risk of colorectal cancer. Sci Rep 2015; 5:7956. [PMID: 25609140 PMCID: PMC4302314 DOI: 10.1038/srep07956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2014] [Accepted: 12/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Epidemiological investigation have suggested that there is a significantly inverse association between circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and the risk for developing colorectal cancer (CRC) in humans. However, little is known about the role of vitamin D binding protein (VDBP) in colorectal carcinogenesis. Blood samples were collected from 212 CRC patients and 212 controls matched with age, gender and blood collection time. We used logistic regression to calculate the odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for further estimation of the association of the quartiles of VDBP, total, free and bioavailable 25(OH)D with CRC risk. The results revealed that there was no significant association between circulating VDBP concentrations and CRC in the present study, and that a negative association existed between total 25(OH)D and the risk of CRC, which was unchanged after adjustment for VDBP. Higher levels of free and bioavailable 25(OH)D were significantly associated with decreased risk of CRC. After stratifying by VDBP, high levels of total, free and bioavailable 25(OH)D were associated significantly with decreased CRC risk among participants with circulating VDBP below the median. These findings indicate that VDBP is not directly associated with the risk of CRC, but it modulates circulating free and bioavailable 25(OH)D concentration.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- 1] Medical college, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, China [2] Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- 1] Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China [2] College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- 1] Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China [2] College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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- 1] Medical college, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, China [2] Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006, Jiangsu, China
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Ying HQ, Deng QW, He BS, Pan YQ, Wang F, Sun HL, Chen J, Liu X, Wang SK. The prognostic value of preoperative NLR, d-NLR, PLR and LMR for predicting clinical outcome in surgical colorectal cancer patients. Med Oncol 2014; 31:305. [PMID: 25355641 DOI: 10.1007/s12032-014-0305-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2014] [Accepted: 10/23/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Accumulating evidences indicate cancer-triggered inflammation plays a pivotal role in carcinogenesis. Systematic inflammatory response biomarkers are considered as potential prognostic factors for improving predictive accuracy in colorectal cancer (CRC). Preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), derived neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (d-NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and lymphocyte- to-monocyte ratio (LMR) were investigated and compared in 205 surgical CRC patients. ROC curve was applied to determine thresholds for four biomarkers, and their prognostic values were assessed using Kaplan-Meier curve, univariate and multivariate COX regression models. Moreover, a number of risk factors were used to form nomograms for evaluating risk of survival, and Harrell's concordance index (c-index) was used to evaluate predictive accuracy. Results showed that elevated NLR was significantly associated with diminished recurrent-free survival (RFS), overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in surgical CRC patients. Moreover, multivariate COX analysis identified elevated NLR as an independent factor for poor RFS (P < 0.001, HR 2.52, 95% CI 1.65-3.83), OS (P < 0.001, HR 2.73, 95% CI 1.74-4.29) and CSS (P < 0.001, HR 2.77, 95% CI 1.72-4.46). Additionally, predictive nomograms including NLR for RFS, OS and CSS could be more effective in predicting RFS (c-index: 0.810 vs. 0.656), OS (c-index: 0.809 vs. 0.690) and CSS (c-index: 0.802 vs. 0.688) in surgical CRC patients, respectively. These findings indicate that preoperative elevated NLR can be considered as an independent prognostic biomarker for RFS, OS and CSS. Nomograms containing NLR provide improved accuracy for predicting clinical outcomes in surgical CRC patients under surgery resection.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Medical College, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, Jiangsu, China
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Ying HQ, Wang F, He BS, Pan YQ, Gao TY, Xu YQ, Li R, Deng QW, Sun HL, Wang SK. The involvement of Kras gene 3'-UTR polymorphisms in risk of cancer and influence on patient response to anti-EGFR therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis. Onco Targets Ther 2014; 7:1487-96. [PMID: 25210463 PMCID: PMC4154892 DOI: 10.2147/ott.s65496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Genetic variation of the Kras oncogene is a candidate factor for increasing susceptibility to carcinoma and modulating response of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients treated with anti-epidermal growth factor receptor monoclonal antibody (anti-EGFR). However, results from an increasing number of studies concerning the association of Kras gene rs712 and rs61764370 polymorphisms with risk of cancer and treatment of mCRC using anti-EGFR remain equivocal. METHODS Risk associations were evaluated in 1,661 cases and 2,139 controls from six studies concerning rs712 and 14,796 cases and 14,985 controls from 29 studies concerning rs61764370. Response association was also examined in a subset of four studies pertaining to rs61764370 and anti-EGFR treatment in mCRC. RESULTS Results of a meta-analysis showed that allele T (P-value of heterogeneity test [P H] =0.08, odds ratio [OR] =1.33, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.08-1.64) and genotype GT/TT (P H=0.14, OR =1.30, 95% CI: 1.10-1.55) in rs712 were strongly associated with cancer in Chinese subjects. No evidence of association was observed between rs712 and risk of cancer in the overall population or between rs61764370 and ovarian, breast, colorectal, or non-small-cell lung cancer risk in the Caucasian population. No significant association was found between rs61764370 and patient response to anti-EGFR therapy in mCRC. CONCLUSION The findings not only provide further evidence that allele T of rs712 increases genetic predisposition to cancer in Chinese population, but also no significant association between rs61764370 and cancer risk in Caucasian population, and suggest that genotype GT/TT of rs61764370 may not be a biomarker for predicting clinical outcome of anti-EGFR therapy in mCRC.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Medical College, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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- Central Laboratory, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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In testis, eNOS is responsible for synthesis of nitric oxide (NO) which is an essential gas message regulator in spermatogenesis, suggesting that eNOS gene plays a role in normal spermatogenesis and the genetic variants of eNOS gene may be potential genetic risk factors of spermatogenesis impairment. In this study, the polymorphic distributions of three common polymorphism loci including T-786C, 4A4B and G894T in eNOS gene were investigated in 355 Chinese infertile patients with azoospermia or oligozoospermia and 246 healthy fertile men and a meta-analysis was carried in order to explore the possible relationship between the three loci of eNOS gene and male infertility with spermatogenesis impairment. As a result, allele -786C of T-786C (11.4% versus 6.5%, p = 0.004) and 4A of 4A4B (11.0% versus 6.3%, p = 0.005) as well as genotype TC of T-786C (22.8% versus 13.0%, p = 0.002) and AB of 4A4B (18% versus 11%, p = 0.015) were significantly associated with idiopathic male infertility. The haplotypes T-4A-G (7.4% versus 4.1%, p = 0.015) and C-4B-G (7.6% versus 4.4%, p = 0.028) could increase the susceptibility to male infertility, whereas haplotype T-4B-G (67.0% versus 75.2%, p = 0.002) might be a protective factor for male infertility. The results of meta-analysis revealed that the polymorphism of T-786C was associated with male infertility. These findings suggested that the variants of eNOS gene may modify the susceptibility to male infertility with impaired spermatogenesis.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Department of Genetics, College of Agriculture and Biology, Dali University, Dali, China
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Ying HQ, Qi Y, Pu XY, Liu SR, A ZC. Association of GSTM1 and GSTT1 genes with the susceptibility to male infertility: result from a meta-analysis. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers 2013; 17:535-42. [PMID: 23631429 DOI: 10.1089/gtmb.2012.0409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The deletion polymorphisms of the glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) and glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1) genes were considered as candidates for genetic susceptibility factors of male infertility. Previous studies concerning the relationship between the null genotype of the two genes and male infertility have been reported in recent years. However, the results remain elusive. A meta-analysis was performed to estimate the relationship between the deletion polymorphism of the GSTM1 or GSTT1 gene, and male infertility in this study. Sixteen studies concerning the GSTM1 gene, including 2174 cases and 1861 controls, and 13 case-control studies on the GSTT1 gene with a total number of 1992 cases and 1617 controls were processed. The results showed that the null genotype of the GSTM1 gene was associated with male infertility in the overall populations (P=0.003, OR=1.40, 95%CI=1.12-1.75), especially in Caucasian (P=0.012, OR=1.50, 95%CI=1.09-2.07) as well as Chinese (P=0.001, OR=1.55, 95%CI=1.19-2.03). The null genotype of the GSTT1 gene was strongly related to male infertility only in Chinese (P=0.000, OR=1.70, 95%CI=1.34-2.14). These results indicated that the null genotype of the GSTM1 gene might contribute to the susceptibility of male infertility, whereas the null genotype of the GSTT1 gene may be a genetic susceptibility factor of male infertility for the Chinese.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- Department of Genetics, College of Agriculture and Biology, Dali University, China
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Xu XB, Liu SR, Ying HQ, A ZC. Null genotype of GSTM1 and GSTT1 may contribute to susceptibility to male infertility with impaired spermatogenesis in Chinese population. Biomarkers 2013; 18:151-4. [PMID: 23311983 DOI: 10.3109/1354750x.2012.755221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs) play a protective role during spermatogenesis and GST genes may be involved in impaired spermatogenesis. A case-control study was performed to explore the association of genes GSTM1 and GSTT1, two members of GST gene family, with spermatogenesis impairment. The deletion polymorphism distribution of genes GSTM1 and GSTT1 was investigated in 353 patients with azoospermia or oligospermia and 201 fertile controls in Chinese population using multiplex PCR. As a result, the frequencies of null genotype of genes GSTM1 (67.4% versus 57.7%, p = 0.022, OR = 1.516, 95% CI = 1.001-2.168) and GSTT1 (61.8% versus 46.8%, p = 0.001, OR = 1.838, 95% CI = 1.295-2.610) in patients were significantly higher than those in controls. After stratifying patients, the frequencies of null genotype of gene GSTM1 in oligospermia (68.3% versus 57.7%, p = 0.027, OR = 1.580, 95% CI = 1.051-2.375) and GSTT1 in azoospermia (66.9% versus 46.8%, p < 0.001, OR = 2.299, 95% CI = 1.484-3.562) as well as oligospermia (57.9% versus 46.8%, p = 0.025, OR = 1.567, 95% CI = 1.057-2.322) were still significantly higher compared with controls. The results suggested that null genotypes of GSTM1 and GSTT1 are associated with spermatogenesis impairment and may contribute to susceptibility to spermatogenesis impairment and male infertility in Chinese population.
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- Xiao-Bo Xu
- Department of Genetics, College of Agriculture and Biology, Dali University, Dali, China
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Ying HQ, Zhou-Cun A. [Single nucleotide polymorphisms of the genes related with spermatogenesis impairment]. Zhonghua Nan Ke Xue 2011; 17:1125-1130. [PMID: 22235684] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
Male infertility is a complex disease affecting the reproduction of childbearing couples, for which genetic polymorphism of spermatogenesis genes is an important genetic pathogenic factor. Lots of genes closely related with spermatogenesis have been successfully identified through the gene knockout technology. Spermatogenesis impairment related genes include those associated with expression enzymes, receptors, cell apoptosis, transcription regulation, and so on. The genetic susceptibility of these genes, infection, and environment jointly contribute to non-obstructive azoospermia and oligozoospermia in males. The analysis of the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of spermatogenesis impairment related genes helps explain the possible mechanism of pathogenesis at the molecular level, and provides theoretical evidence for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of male infertility. The article focuses on the correlation of the SNPs of spermatogenesis impairment related genes with azoospermia and oligozoospermia.
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- Hou-Qun Ying
- 1. College of Basic Medicine, Dali University, Dali , Yunan 671000, China
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Wang R, Ying HQ, Leng ZK, Gu XC, Zou SJ, Pan XH. [Studies on chemotherapeutic agents against Schistosomiasis japonica. II. Synthesis of coumarin esters of monobromo- and monoiodoacetic acid (author's transl)]. Yao Xue Xue Bao 1981; 16:779-83. [PMID: 7336940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Bai FX, Leng ZK, Ying HQ, Wang R, Zou SJ, Gu XC, Cao ZZ. [Studies on chemotherapeutic agents against Schistosomiasis japonica. I. Synthesis of alcoholic and phenolic esters of monobromoacetic acid]. Yao Xue Xue Bao 1981; 16:621-4. [PMID: 7324962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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