Background: The prognosis for esophageal cancer (EC), a common malignant tumor, is poor. The new oral small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor apatinib has shown an excellent therapeutic effect on treating EC. Camrelizumab is a humanized programmed death 1 (PD-1) inhibitor with high affinity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Gastric cancer (GC) is the second most common lethal cancer worldwide and lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG3) as a therapeutic target for cancers has been investigated. Herein, our study is to clarify the value of peripheral blood (PB) soluble LAG-3 (sLAG3) in GC.
Methods: Peripheral serum samples of GC patients and healthy people were collected for the measurement of serum levels of sLAG3, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), IL-12 and IFN-γ.
The study aims to explore the association between polymorphisms in the promoter region of microRNA-34b/c (miR-34b/c) and the chemoradiotherapy efficacy for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in Chinese Han population. A total of 175 locally advanced ESCC cases and 186 healthy individuals were enrolled as the case and control groups. Denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) was applied to determine the genotypes of subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND Tumorigenesis is a kind of pathology marked by infinite proliferation and restrained apoptosis compared with normal cells. The abnormal expression of some proto-oncogenes and apoptosis inhibition are essential for tumor growth, which has been confirmed by molecular biologic and immunologic studies. The hypofunction of the host immune system also drives the development and metastasis of malignant tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate the relationship between uridine diphosphate glucoronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1)*28/*6 and toxicity and clinical efficacy of irinotecan-based chemotherapy in patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) in Xinjiang Uygur and Han population.
Methods: A total of 183 patients (Uygur, 114; Han, 69) with advanced CRC who received the irinotecan-based chemotherapy were enrolled in this retrospective analysis. Polymerase chain reaction amplification and direct sequencing method were used for UGT1A1*28 and UGT1A1*6 polymorphism detection.