Publications by authors named "Yuanguang Meng"

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) for patients with partially platinum-sensitive, platinum-resistant, or platinum-refractory ovarian cancer.

Methods: Patients with partially platinum-sensitive, platinum-resistant, or platinum-refractory ovarian cancer were recruited in this prospective, open-label, single-arm, multicenter study. Eligible patients were given 4-6 cycles of PLD (40 mg/m2 on day 1, every 4 weeks).

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  • The study investigates the high incidence of cervical cancer by identifying differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in cervical cancer tissues compared to normal tissues.
  • Using next generation sequencing (NGS), researchers found 875 genes that were up-regulated and 1,482 that were down-regulated in cervical cancer samples.
  • Functional analyses indicated that these DEGs are linked to tumorigenesis and show promising diagnostic and prognostic value, with certain genes potentially predicting patient outcomes.
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Introduction: Despite rapid advances in molecular biology, personalized molecular therapy remains a clinical challenge for endometrial cancer due to its complex and heterogeneous tumor microenvironment.Based on clinical findings, AIB1 is a marker molecule for poor prognosis in endometrial cancer and may serve as a potential therapeutic target. Moreover, it is well known that aerobic glycolysis plays an important role in tumour energy metabolism.

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Background: Preoperative risk stratification is significant for the management of endometrial cancer (EC) patients. Radiomics based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in combination with clinical features may be useful to predict the risk grade of EC.

Aim: To construct machine learning models to predict preoperative risk stratification of patients with EC based on radiomics features extracted from MRI.

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  • Ovarian cancer remains a highly lethal disease, emphasizing the urgent need for new biomarkers and treatments; the study focuses on the protein GRB7, which is linked to cancer cell signaling but is not well understood in this context.
  • The research employed various datasets and analyses to show that GRB7 is significantly overexpressed in ovarian cancer tissues compared to normal tissues, correlating high levels with poorer survival outcomes and specific immune responses.
  • Findings suggest GRB7 not only plays a crucial role in the biology of ovarian cancer but also serves as a potential prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target, affecting tumor growth and immune interactions.
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  • The study aimed to assess how effective vascular clips are at sealing lymphatics and preventing pelvic lymphoceles after laparoscopic surgery in patients with gynecological cancers.
  • It involved a retrospective analysis of 217 patients, split into two groups: one using vascular clips and the other employing electrothermal instruments for sealing.
  • Results showed that patients in the vascular clips group had significantly fewer lymphoceles and symptomatic lymphoceles compared to the electrothermal group, highlighting vascular clips as a potentially superior method (p < .001).
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Background: Primary cervical cancer screening and treating precancerous lesions are effective ways to prevent cervical cancer. However, the coverage rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and routine screening are low in most developing countries and even some developed countries. This study aimed to explore the benefit of an artificial intelligence-assisted cytology (AI) system in a screening program for a cervical cancer high-risk population in China.

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Background: Transformation of endometriosis to malignancy is a rare occurrence. Clear cell ovarian cancer and endometrioid ovarian cancer are the two histotypes most consistently linked to endometriosis. The exact pathways leading to malignant transformation of endometriosis remain elusive.

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We evaluated the characteristics of high-risk human papillomavirus (Hr-HPV) infection in different grades of vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (VaIN). 7469 participants were involved in this study, of which 601 were diagnosed with VaIN, including single vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (s-VaIN, n = 369) and VaIN+CIN (n = 232), 3414 with single cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (s-CIN), 3446 with cervicitis or vaginitis and 8 with vaginal cancer. We got those results.

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With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, biomedical imaging data play an important role in scientific research and clinical application, but the available resources are limited. Here we present Open Biomedical Imaging Archive (OBIA), a repository for archiving biomedical imaging and related clinical data. OBIA adopts five data objects (Collection, Individual, Study, Series, and Image) for data organization, and accepts the submission of biomedical images of multiple modalities, organs, and diseases.

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Background: The ovary is highly sensitive to radiation, and patients receiving radiotherapy are at significant risk of premature ovarian failure (POF). This study aimed to explore the radioprotective effect of honokiol (HKL) on ionizing radiation (IR)-induced POF.

Methods: Female C57BL/6 mice were administered intraperitoneally with vehicle or HKL once daily for 7 days.

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Background: This study compared the survival outcomes of abdominal radical hysterectomy (ARH) (N = 32), laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (LRH) (N = 61), robot-assisted radical hysterectomy (RRH) (N = 100) and vaginal radical hysterectomy (VRH) (N = 45) approaches for early-stage cervical cancer to identify the surgical approach that provides the best survival.

Methods: Disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method, and survival curves were compared using the log-rank test.

Results: The volume of intraoperative blood loss was greater in the ARH group than in the LRH group, the RRH group or the VRH group [(712.

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Although NIR-II laser-mediated photothermal therapy (PTT) is considered as an emerging strategy for tumor therapy, its therapeutic effects are still seriously hampered by low photothermal conversion efficacy, limited tissue penetration depth, and inevitable damage to adjoining healthy tissues. Herein, we report a mild second-near-infrared (NIR-II) photothermal-augmented nanocatalytic therapy (NCT) nanoplatform based on CD@CoO heterojunctions by depositing NIR-II-responsive carbon dots (CDs) onto the surface of CoO nanozymes. The as-prepared CoO nanozymes possess multi-enzyme-mimicking catalytic activity including peroxidase, catalase, and glutathione-peroxidase to realize the cascade amplification of ROS levels owing to the presence of multivalent Co and Co.

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Ovarian cancer (OC) is characterised by heterogeneity that complicates the prediction of patient survival and treatment outcomes. Here, we conducted analyses to predict the prognosis of patients from the Genomic Data Commons database and validated the predictions by fivefold cross-validation and by using an independent dataset in the International Cancer Genome Consortium database. We analysed the somatic DNA mutation, mRNA expression, DNA methylation, and microRNA expression data of 1203 samples from 599 serous ovarian cancer (SOC) patients.

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Objective: To show a case of severe intravascular leiomyomatosis with intracardiac extension treated by a multidisciplinary minimally invasive surgery.

Design: Stepwise demonstration of the technique with a video.

Setting: General Hospital.

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The aim of the present study is to investigate whether 4SC-202, a selective class I histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi), plays an anti-tumor role in cervical cancer (CC) by targeting prolactin receptor (PRLR). CCK-8 and colony formation assays were used to evaluate the effects of 4SC-202 on the proliferation of CC cells in vitro. Effects of 4SC-202 on the cell cycle distribution and apoptosis in SiHa cells were determined by flow cytometry and western blotting, respectively.

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Background: The mortality rate of ovarian cancer (OC) ranks first among female genital tract malignant tumors, which seriously threatens women's life and health. Because of its insidious onset and poor prognosis, it has become a thorny problem in the clinic, especially for patients with platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer (PROC). In recent years, the medical treatment of OC has made gratifying results, bringing hope to the patients.

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Endometrial carcinoma (EC), a common female reproductive system malignant tumor, affects thousands of people with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. This study was aimed at developing a prediction model for the diagnosis of EC in the general population. First, we obtained datasets GSE63678, GSE106191, and GSE115810 from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, dataset GSE17025 from the GEO database, and the RNA sequence of EC from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database to constitute the training, test, and validation groups, respectively.

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Purpose: This phase III trial aimed to explore the efficacy and safety of fuzuloparib (formerly fluzoparib) versus placebo as a maintenance treatment after response to second- or later-line platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with high-grade, platinum-sensitive, recurrent ovarian cancer.

Patients And Methods: Patients with platinum-sensitive, recurrent ovarian cancer previously treated with at least two platinum-based regimens were assigned (2:1) to receive fuzuloparib (150 mg, twice daily) or matching placebo for 28-day cycles. The primary end points were progression-free survival (PFS) assessed by blinded independent review committee (BIRC) in the overall population and PFS by BIRC in the subpopulation with germline mutation.

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Objective: The aim is to investigate the efficiency and outcome of robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy (RASC) in a cohort of patients with pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in our Gynecology Department.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study of female patients who underwent RASC in Chinese PLA General Hospital from January 2013 to December 2020. Their clinical features included age, degree of prolapse, menopause time, body mass index, pregnancy, delivery, operation time, and bleeding volume.

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Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) is the most important determinate in the development of cervical cancer, and cervical microecology can modulate cervical viral infection. However, few studies have been conducted on the microecological analysis of cervical diseases using strict physiological factors. This study investigated the characteristics and dynamics of cervical microecology in childbearing-age Chinese women with different degrees of HR-HPV-positive cervical lesions.

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had become a health care event endangering humans globally. It takes up a large number of healthcare resources. We studied the impact of COVID-19 on patients with ovarian cancer by comprehensively analyzing their admissions before and after the epidemic, and made reasonable suggestions to improve their current situation.

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Objectives: To investigate the efficiency of the upgraded noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT-Plus) in fetuses with increased nuchal translucency (NT).

Methods: Fetuses with an increased NT at or above 2.5 mm were selected for prenatal diagnosis.

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Purpose: The etiology and pathophysiology of endometriosis remain unclear. Current research indicates long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) may play an important role in the pathogenesis and development of endometriosis. However, the molecular mechanism of lncRNA in endometriosis is far from clear.

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Objective: To investigate the utility of F-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) for the preoperative diagnosis of cervical cancer.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 114 patients who were diagnosed with cervical cancer and underwent PET/MRI (n = 59) or PET/computed tomography (PET/CT) (n = 65) before surgery. The maximal standardized uptake value (SUV) and mean SUV (SUV) were determined for regions of interest in the resultant radiographic images.

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