Publications by authors named "Linzhu Zhai"

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the leading cause of mortality from invasive hematological malignancies worldwide. MicroRNA-7-5p (miR-7-5p) has been shown to be a tumor suppressor in several types of tumors. However, its role in DLBCL is not fully understood.

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  • Natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) is a complex and aggressive disease, with a focus on a rare subtype called non-upper aerodigestive tract NKTCL (NUAT-NKTCL), which shows poor prognosis and lacks adequate treatment strategies.
  • In a study of 1589 NKTCL patients, 196 were identified with NUAT-NKTCL, revealing they had worse clinical outcomes and distinct genetic mutations compared to upper aerodigestive tract patients.
  • The addition of anti-PD-1 immunotherapy to standard chemotherapy significantly improved patients' survival rates, highlighting the need for more research on treatment effectiveness and biomarkers for NUAT-NKTCL.
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Patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIS) are prone to immune related adverse events (irAEs), making it important to pay attention to these adverse events. Herein, we report a case of onychopathy after treatment of extensive small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) with durvalumab; this is the first report of onychopathy caused by durvalumab in a patient with lung cancer. The change in the patient's nails mainly manifested in the form of pigmentation and the thickening of the nails.

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Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is regarded as a high-mortality cancer, but the effectiveness of surgical strategies for young patients with early-stage HCC remains controversial. We aimed to analyze the survival in young patients with stage I-II HCC who underwent different kinds of surgical treatments.

Methods: Overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) were compared among patients aged 18-45 years with stage I-II HCC from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database (2004-2013) who underwent local tumor destruction (LTD), wedge or segmental resection (WSR), lobectomy resection (LR), liver transplantation (LT), or non-surgery.

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Objective: To conduct a network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials to determine the optimal clinical choice of first-line therapy for patients with ALK receptor tyrosine kinase () gene rearrangement non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods: Clinical trials in patients with histologically confirmed gene rearrangement NSCLC, that included ALK inhibitors as first-line therapy, were identified using database searches. A Bayesian network meta-analysis was conducted to calculate the efficacy and safety of the included first-line treatments.

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Purpose: Primary intestinal non-Hodgkin lymphoma (PINHL) is a biologically and clinically heterogeneous disease. Few individual prediction models are available to establish prognoses for PINHL patients. Herein, a novel nomogram was developed and verified to predict long-term cancer-specific survival (CSS) rates in PINHL patients, and a convenient online risk calculator was created using the nomogram.

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Evidence regarding the need for surgery for primary intestinal non-Hodgkin lymphoma (PINHL) patients with chemotherapy is limited and controversial. We aimed to investigate the specific impact of surgery on survival of PINHL patients. Data from PINHL patients (aged > 18 years) with chemotherapy between 1983 and 2015 were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database.

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Background: The anti-tumor properties of curcumin have been demonstrated for many types of cancer. However, a systematic functional and biological analysis of its target proteins has yet to be fully documented. The aim of this study was to explore the underlying mechanisms of curcumin and broaden the perspective of targeted therapies.

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The adverse events of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are mostly immune mediated reactions. In this study, we presented a patient who developed coexisting of myasthenia gravis, myocarditis and anemia after treatment with nivolumab only 1 cycle for ureteral epithelial cancer. A 66-year-old woman was admitted to our department with the complaint of recurrent hematuria and backache for 2 months.

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In order to explore the specific mechanism of YiqiChutan formula (YQCTF) in inhibiting the angiogenesis of lung cancer and its relationship with delta-like ligand 4- (DLL4-) Notch signaling, 30 healthy BALB/c-nu/nu rats were selected and divided into three groups: A549 group (implanted with lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549), NCI-H460 group (implanted with human lung large-cell carcinoma cell line NCI-H460), and NCI-H446 group (implanted with human lung small cell carcinoma cell line NCI-H446) for constructing lung cancer transplanted tumor models. After modeling, the group treated with normal saline was taken as control group, 200 mg/kg of YQCTF was adopted for intervention, and the tumor volume and growth inhibition rate were compared with the vascular targeted inhibitor Sorafenib. HE staining, CD31 fluorescent antibody staining, and microelectron microscopy were adopted to observe the neovascular endothelial cells of the transplanted tumor.

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Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common subtype of adult non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). While DLBCL is sensitive to chemotherapy, a certain percentage of patients with DLBCL experience relapse. Previous studies have indicated that Yiqichutan treatment, which was developed to treat NHL, can inhibit DLBCL cell growth, but the mechanism is not fully understood.

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To assess the efficacy and toxicity of Lobaplatin (LBP) -contained chemotherapy on extensive stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), we conducted a prospective, single-arm, and multicenter Phase IV clinical trial on Lobaplatin (ChiCTR-ONC-13003471), and used the patient clinical data obtained from our cancer center to perform the analysis. Previously untreated patients with ES-SCLC were given LBP intravenously (IV) at 30 mg/m on day 1 and etoposide IV at 100 mg/m on day 1, 2, and 3. The treatment was cycled every 21 days, lasting for four to six cycles.

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Rationale: Metastases of breast carcinoma to the main bronchus and choroid are rare, but have been reported in relevant literature. Late distant recurrence of breast carcinoma after more than 20 years is extremely rare. Herein, we report a 57-year-old woman with late distant recurrence and metastasis to the main bronchus and choroid almost 28 years after surgery.

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Rationale: A cholesterol granuloma (CG) is usually found in the middle ear, papilla, orbits, petrous apex, and choroid plexus, but is highly uncommon in the skull. In spite of benign clinicopathological lesions, bone erosion can be seen occasionally in the patient with CG. The optimal treatment strategy is radical surgery, but complete excision is usually impossible due to anatomical restrictions and a risk of injury to the key structures located nearby.

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There are limited data on serum total light chain (sTLC) in lymphoma and its relative role on the outcome of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. Blood samples from 46 cases newly diagnosed with DLBCL were collected consecutively during chemotherapy to detect sTLC, IgG, IgA, and IgM levels. Clinical data and survival outcomes were analyzed according to the results of sTLC measurements.

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Introduction: There are increasing concerns about the negative impacts of chemotherapy near the end of life (EOL). There is discrepancy among different countries about its use, and little is known about the real-world situation in China.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective study was conducted at six representative hospitals across China.

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Background And Goals: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) involving the ileocecal region is a rare occurrence. Optimal management and treatment outcomes of ileocecal NHL have not been well defined.

Study: In this study, clinical characteristics, treatment outcomes, and prognostic factors of 46 Chinese patients with ileocecal NHL were retrospectively analyzed.

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Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) type arises from a wide variety of extranodal sites, most frequently from the gastrointestinal tract. Recently, it has been demonstrated that karyotypic alterations involving the PIK3CA and FOXP1 genes of chromosome 3 occur in MALT lymphoma. However, their associated protein expression has not been extensively studied.

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Pirarubicin is an analog of doxorubicin. Few studies have compared the long-term outcomes of patients receiving pirarubicin-based THP-COP and doxorubicin-based CHOP in the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). We retrospectively compared the efficacy and safety of these two regimens in 459 previously untreated aggressive NHL patients admitted to Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center from 1987 to 2003.

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Background And Objective: Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma is a histological type of marginal zone non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Its clinical features and prognosis have seldom been reported because of its indolent clinical course. This study was to explore the clinical features and prognosis of this disease.

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Background & Objective: Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells of classical Hodgkin's Lymphoma (CHL) express B-cell marker CD20 with a reported frequency of 5%-58%. The prognostic significance of CD20 expression in HRS cells of CHL is still controversial. This study was to investigate the prognostic significance of CD20 expression in naive CHL patients.

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Objective: To compare the efficacy and tolerability of the regimen FOLFOX [1eucovorin (LV), 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu) and oxaliplatin] and the regimen PLF (Paclitaxel, leucovorin and 5-Fu) for treatment of advanced gastric adenocarcinoma.

Methods: We retrospectively studied the clinical data of 132 patients with stage IV gastric adenocarcinoma treated by FOLFOX (group A, n=60) or PLF (group B, n=72). The tumor response rate, toxicity, time to progress (TTP) and overall survival (OS) were compared between the two groups.

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