Publications by authors named "ZongFeng Feng"

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  • The study identified RAD51D and XRCC2 as potential diagnostic biomarkers for gastric cancer by utilizing machine learning techniques.
  • The research demonstrated a strong correlation between the expression of these biomarkers and key clinicopathological features, such as T stage, N stage, and TNM stage.
  • Constructed predictive models based on radiomic features showed high accuracy in predicting biomarker expression, which could help guide chemotherapy choices for gastric cancer patients.
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  • The study investigates how well machine learning algorithms can predict omental metastasis in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer by using clinical data and CT images.
  • Researchers analyzed 478 patients, extracting important features and using various machine learning models (RF, LR, SVM, DT, KNN) to predict outcomes, assessing their performance through metrics like accuracy and predictive values.
  • The random forest model outperformed other algorithms in terms of accuracy and positive predictive value in both training and testing phases, while the logistic regression model had the lowest positive predictive value overall.
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  • Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence navigation improves visualization of gastric cancer lesions and minimizes complications during surgery, leading to increased research interest in its clinical applications.
  • The study analyzed 1,385 relevant articles from 1991 to 2022 using bibliometric methods to identify prominent trends, with a notable concentration of research efforts from China, Japan, and the U.S.
  • Key research themes include precision surgery techniques like lymphadenectomy and gastrectomy, indicating a growing focus on optimizing ICG use in gastric cancer treatment.
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  • HP is a gram-negative bacterium linked to gastritis, peptic ulcers, and gastric cancer, identified as a class I carcinogen that influences cancer progression.
  • Using gene sets from the Molecular Signatures Database, researchers employed clustering and machine learning methods to identify twelve critical HP-related genes associated with distinct clinical outcomes in gastric cancer patients.
  • These hub genes were validated through various techniques, revealing their involvement in key cancer pathways, which may aid in molecular diagnosis and personalized treatment strategies for gastric cancer.
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Background: Tumour-dependent genes identified in CRISPR-Cas9 screens have been widely reported in Cancer Dependency Maps (CDMs). CDM-derived tumour-dependent genes play an important role in tumorigenesis and progression; however, they have not been investigated in colon cancer (CC).

Methods: CDM genes overexpressed in CC were identified from the TCGA-COAD dataset and CDM platform.

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""We employed radiomics and clinical features to develop and validate a preoperative prediction model to estimate the omental metastases status of locally advanced gastric cancer (LAGC). A total of 460 patients (training cohort, n = 250; test cohort, n = 106; validation cohort, n = 104) with LAGC who were confirmed T3/T4 stage by postoperative pathology were continuously collected retrospectively, including clinical data and preoperative arterial phase computed tomography images (APCT). Dedicated radiomics prototype software was used to segment the lesions and extract features from the preoperative APCT images.

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Background: Ectopic adrenocortical tissues and neoplasms are rare and usually found in the genitourinary system and abdominal cavity. The thorax is an extremely rare ectopic site. Here, we report the first case of nonfunctional ectopic adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) in the lung.

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Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) has the third-highest incidence and second-highest mortality rate of all cancers worldwide. Early diagnosis and screening of CRC have been the focus of research in this field. With the continuous development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, AI has advantages in many aspects of CRC, such as adenoma screening, genetic testing, and prediction of tumor metastasis.

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Objective: This study aimed to analyze and visualize the current research focus, research frontiers, evolutionary processes, and trends of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of gastric cancer using a bibliometric analysis.

Methods: The Web of Science Core Collection database was selected as the data source for this study to retrieve and obtain articles and reviews related to AI in gastric cancer. All the information extracted from the articles was imported to CiteSpace to conduct the bibliometric and knowledge map analysis, allowing us to clearly visualize the research hotspots and trends in this field.

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Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is a significant epigenetic regulator that plays a critical role in the development and progression of cancer. However, the multiomics features and immunological effects of EZH2 in pan-cancer remain unclear. Transcriptome and clinical raw data of pan-cancer samples were acquired from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases, and subsequent data analyses were conducted by using R software (version 4.

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Background: Early gastric cancer (EGC) is defined as a lesion restricted to the mucosa or submucosa, independent of size or evidence of regional lymph node metastases. Although computed tomography (CT) is the main technique for determining the stage of gastric cancer (GC), the accuracy of CT for determining tumor invasion of EGC was still unsatisfactory by radiologists. In this research, we attempted to construct an AI model to discriminate EGC in portal venous phase CT images.

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Background: This study aims to develop and validate a predictive model combining deep transfer learning, radiomics, and clinical features for lymph node metastasis (LNM) in early gastric cancer (EGC).

Materials And Methods: This study retrospectively collected 555 patients with EGC, and randomly divided them into two cohorts with a ratio of 7:3 (training cohort, = 388; internal validation cohort, = 167). A total of 79 patients with EGC collected from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University were used as external validation cohort.

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Syntaxin 6 (STX6), a soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor-activating receptor protein, has formed an increasing part of cancer research. However, to the best of our knowledge, the role of STX6 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is still unclear. In the present study, data from multiple bioinformatics databases, including The Cancer Genome Atlas, Gene Expression Omnibus, Kaplan-Meier plotter, Tumor Immune Estimation Resource (TIMER) and Gene Expression Profiling Integrative Analysis (GEPIA2), and immunohistochemistry (IHC) were utilized to assess the role of STX6 in HCC.

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Background: DNA mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency has attracted considerable attention as a predictor of the immunotherapy efficacy of solid tumors, including gastric cancer. We aimed to develop and validate a computed tomography (CT)-based radiomic nomogram for the preoperative prediction of MMR deficiency in gastric cancer (GC).

Methods: In this retrospective analysis, 225 and 91 GC patients from two distinct hospital cohorts were included.

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The combination of docetaxel, cisplatin, and S-1 (DCS) is a common chemotherapy regimen for patients with gastric cancer (GC). However, studies on long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) associated with the chemotherapeutic response to and prognosis after DCS remain lacking. The aim of the present study was to identify DCS mRNAs-lncRNAs associated with chemotherapy response and prognosis in GC patients.

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As a caspase-independent type of cell death, necroptosis plays a significant role in the initiation, and progression of gastric cancer (GC). Numerous studies have confirmed that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are closely related to the prognosis of patients with GC. However, the relationship between necroptosis and lncRNAs in GC remains unclear.

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Background: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been recently proposed as hub molecules in various diseases, especially in tumours. We found that circRNAs derived from ribonuclease P RNA component H1 (RPPH1) were highly expressed in colorectal cancer (CRC) samples from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets.

Objective: We sought to identify new circRNAs derived from RPPH1 and investigate their regulation of the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) and RNA binding protein (RBP) networks of CRC immune infiltration.

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RNF114 (E3 ubiquitin ligase RING finger protein 114) was first identified as a zinc-binding protein that promotes psoriasis development; however, its role in gastric cancer is still unclear. We explored the relationship between and gastric cancer using bioinformatics and molecular biology techniques. The results showed that RNF114 was highly expressed in gastric cancer and negatively correlated with the patient's prognosis.

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  • Gastric cancer is a common and challenging cancer to treat, and the roles of ferroptosis-related long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in this context are not yet fully understood.
  • A study identified 20 specific ferroptosis-related lncRNAs and developed a prognostic signature that successfully classified gastric cancer patients into high-risk and low-risk groups, showing potential for predicting patient survival.
  • The findings suggest that these lncRNAs are important for understanding immune cell behavior in gastric cancer and could serve as diagnostic and prognostic markers to tailor personalized treatment approaches.
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Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is one of the most common fatal biliary tract tumors in the world. Its 3-year survival rate is 30% and the recurrence rate remains very high. miR-365 was downregulated in numerous tumors and worked as tumor suppressor gene.

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Background: Previous studies have identified LCP1 as a diagnostic and prognostic marker in several cancers. However, the role of LCP1 in gastric cancer (GC) and its effect on tumor immune infiltration remain unclear.

Objective: The aim was to explore the role of LCP1 in GC and its effect on tumor immune infiltration.

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TWA1 is associated with microtubule dynamics, cell migration, nucleokinesis and chromosome segregation. However, the role of TWA1 in gastric cancer (GC) remains unclear. In this study, Cosmic database revealed that the expression level of TWA1 ranks in the top 20 of overexpressed genes in GC.

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Purpose: Altered expression of breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1 (BRMS1), is a tumor suppressor, which is found in many types of cancers, including gastric cancer (GC), but the mechanism by which BRMS1 inhibits invasion and metastasis in GC is unknown. The aim of the study was to investigate the molecular mechanisms of miR-125a/BRMS1 in GC.

Materials And Methods: The expression of BRMS1 and miR-125a were detected by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and analyzed by bioinformatics.

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