Objective: This study was designed to establish the two-dimensional electrophoresis profiles with high resolution and reproducibility from human lung squamous cell carcinoma tissue and paired tumor-adjacent normal bronchial epithelial tissue, and to identify differential expression of tumor-associated proteins by using proteome analysis.
Methods: Comparative proteome analysis of human lung squamous carcinoma and paired normal bronchial mucosa adjacent to tumors from 20 cases were carried out. Total proteins of the carcinoma tissue and normal bronchial mucosa were separated by means of immobilized pH gradient-based two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE). The differentially expressed proteins were analyzed and identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS).
Results: (1) Seventy-six differentially expressed proteins were screened by analyzing the electrophoretic maps of the 20 carcinoma and control mucosa tissues. (2) Sixty-eight differential proteins were identified by peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF). Some proteins were products of oncogenes and others were involved in the regulation of cell cycle and signal transduction. (3) The expression of three proteins mdm2, c-Jun and EGFR, correlated with lung squamous carcinoma, were detected by immunohistochemical staining and Western blot analysis. The results showed that the expression of mdm2, c-Jun and EGFR were up-regulated in lung squamous carcinomas, whereas down-regulated in control normal mucosa. It was consistent with our proteome analysis results. Those results suggested that those proteins may play roles in the carcinogenesis of lung squamous carcinoma.
Conclusion: sixty-eight differentially expressed proteins were successfully characterized by comparative proteome analysis. Those results may provide scientific foundation for screening the molecular biomarkers which can be used in diagnosis and treatment of lung squamous carcinoma, as well as to improve patients' prognosis and provide a new clue for carcinogenesis research of lung squamous cell carcinoma.
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JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland.
Importance: Sensitivity to environmental stress and adversity may influence lung cancer risk, highlighting a critical link between psychosocial factors and cancer etiology.
Objective: To evaluate whether genetically estimated sensitivity to environmental stress and adversity is associated with lung cancer risk.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Data were obtained from a genome-wide association study identifying 37 independent genetic variants strongly associated with sensitivity to environmental stress and adversity and a cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium.
Oncol Lett
March 2025
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan.
Nivolumab has been approved for unresectable recurrent advanced esophageal cancer. The present study aimed to provide real-world data on diverse patient profiles, including the elderly and those with poor performance status, while exploring therapeutic efficacy biomarkers. This retrospective study included 42 patients with esophageal cancer who received nivolumab after second- or later-line treatment at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Kyoto, Japan) from February 2020 to December 2021.
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January 2025
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China.
Background: Neoadjuvant therapy is preferentially recommended for resectable locally advanced esophageal malignancies, with patients who achieve pathological complete response (PCR) anticipated to have longer survival rates. The aim of this study was to compare 3-year follow-up data for patients with esophageal malignancy who achieved PCR through neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nCRT) and to compare the findings with those of neoadjuvant immunotherapy plus chemotherapy (nICT).
Methods: This retrospective study included 85 patients with esophageal cancer who underwent surgical resection following nCRT (n=47) or nICT (n=38) between January 1, 2016 and January 1, 2020 at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital and Gaozhou People's Hospital.
BMC Cancer
January 2025
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
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Methods: Following PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a review using PubMed and Embase for studies on cancer and ophthalmic prostheses/implants.
Mol Immunol
January 2025
Laboratory of Oncology, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China; Institute of Oncology, Senior Department of Oncology, The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China. Electronic address:
Purpose: To determine the characteristic changes of peripheral blood T cells and identify potential biomarkers that associated with the clinical efficacy of combined immunotherapy and anti-angiogenic therapy in patients with advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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