Comparison of the therapeutic efficacy between systemic chemotherapy with and without radiofrequency ablation for colorectal cancer liver metastases: A propensity score matching study.

Objective: To compare therapeutic efficacy between systemic chemotherapy (SC) alone and preoperative SC followed by radiofrequency ablation (SC+RFA) in patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM).

Methods: This study identified a cohort of patients with CRLM after treatment between 2010 and 2016. Patients who received SC+RFA were compared with SC patients by propensity score matching.

Nomogram including chemotherapy response for prediction of intrahepatic progression-free survival in patients with colorectal liver metastasis through chemotherapy followed by radiofrequency ablation.

Background: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is being considered as the favorable treatment option for unresectable colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM) receiving chemotherapy, yet there still exist challenges for recurrence after RFA. The present study aims to establish an effective nomogram to predict intrahepatic progression-free survival (PFS) and select RFA candidates.

Methods: Patients with unresectable CRLM treated with chemotherapy followed by RFA between 2010 and 2016 were enrolled in this study.

Digestive tract hemorrhage due to complications with gastrointestinal stromal tumor treated with sunitinib: A case report.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare, and account for 1% of all gastrointestinal neoplasms. GISTs are the most frequent mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. However, the clinical and pathological characteristics of these neoplasms are not adequately understood.

[Expression of MICA/B protein in esophageal cancer and its clinical significance].

Objective: To explore the expression of MICA/B in human esophageal cancer, and to analyze its correlation with clinicopathological features.

Methods: The expression of MICA/B in 40 cases of esophagus carcinoma and corresponding normal esophageal mucosa tissues were examined by immunohistochemistry.

Results: The positive rate of expression of MICA/B protein in the esophageal carcinoma was 75.

[Kaempferol-induced apoptosis of human esophageal squamous carcinoma Eca-109 cells and the mechanism].

Objective: To evaluate the growth-inhibiting and pro-apoptotic effect of kaempferol in human esophageal squamous carcinoma Eca-109 cells and explore the mechanism.

Methods: The effect of kaempferol on Eca-109 cell proliferation in vitro was measured by MTT assay. TUNEL staining was used to detect the cell apoptosis following kaempferol treatment.