Prognostic Role of Gingipain Rgp and Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Background/aim: The oral bacteria involved in the development of periodontitis alter the tissue conditions and modify immune responses in a way that may also influence tumor development. We investigated the prevalence of R gingipain (Rgp), a key virulence factor of the oral pathobiont Porphyromonas gingivalis, and the tissue-destructive enzymes matrix metalloproteinase 8 (MMP-8) and 9 (MMP-9) in 202 unselected consecutive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) samples. We further investigated the relationships between these factors and human papillomavirus (HPV) status, Treponema denticola chymotrypsin-like proteinase (Td-CTLP) immunoexpression, clinical parameters, and patient outcome.

Combining CRP and CA19-9 in a novel prognostic score in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Inflammation promotes tumor progression, induces invasion and metastatic spread. This retrospective study explored CRP, CA19-9, and routine laboratory values as preoperative prognostic factors in pancreatic cancer patients. Between 2000 and 2016, there were 212 surgically treated pancreatic cancer patients at Helsinki University Hospital, Finland.

Postoperative serum CA19-9, YKL-40, CRP and IL-6 in combination with CEA as prognostic markers for recurrence and survival in colorectal cancer.

Background: In colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, guidelines only recommend measurement of preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), although postoperative CEA may be more informative. However, the sensitivity of both preoperative and postoperative CEA in identifying relapse is limited. We studied whether CA19-9, YKL-40, C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin (IL)-6 add prognostic information combined with postoperative CEA.

Toll-like receptor 2 and Toll-like receptor 4 predict favorable prognosis in local pancreatic cancer.

Toll-like receptors play an essential role in our innate immune system and are a focus of interest in contemporary cancer research. Thus far, Toll-like receptors have shown promising prognostic value in carcinomas of the oral cavity, colon, and ovaries, but the prognostic role of Toll-like receptors in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma has not been established. We set out to investigate whether Toll-like receptor expression could serve in prognostic evaluation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, as well.

Increasing the Inflammatory Competence of Macrophages with IL-6 or with Combination of IL-4 and LPS Restrains the Invasiveness of Pancreatic Cancer Cells.

Recent studies suggest that pro-inflammatory type M1 macrophages inhibit tumor progression and that anti-inflammatory M2 macrophages enhance it. The aim of this study was to examine the interaction of type M1 and M2 macrophages with pancreatic cancer cells. We studied the migration rate of fluorescein stained pancreatic cancer cells on Matrigel cultured alone or with Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) differentiated macrophages or with Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (M-CSF) differentiated macrophages, skewing the phenotype towards pro- and anti-inflammatory direction, respectively.