Metastasis is highly organized and organ selective, a process involving multiple sequential steps. It occurs through complex interactions between tumor cells and the host. The surviving metastatic cells have heterogeneous biologic and antigenic or immunogenic properties, and the metastatic cells take over the homeostatic mechanisms of the host. Investigations at the genetic level are necessary to make advances in the early diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of metastatic disease.
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Mol Cancer Ther
January 2025
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States.
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary malignant bone tumor in childhood. Patients who present with metastatic disease at diagnosis or relapse have a very poor prognosis, and this has not changed over the past four decades. The Wnt signaling pathway plays a role in regulating osteogenesis and is implicated in OS pathogenesis.
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January 2025
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Objective: To investigate the clinicopathological features and long-term outcomes of cystic and solid pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs).
Summary Background Data: PanNETs uncommonly present as cystic lesions. Whether cystic PanNETs represent a distinct clinical entity compared to solid PanNETs is controversial.
J Invest Surg
January 2025
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.
Background: The prognostic value of tumor regression grade (TRG) after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer is inconsistent in the literature. Both TRG and post-therapy lymph node (ypN) status could reflect the efficacy of neoadjuvant therapy. Here, we explored whether TRG combined with ypN status could be a prognostic factor for MRI-based lymph node-positive (cN+) rectal cancer following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.
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January 2025
Department for Children and Adolescents, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Background: The histologic classification of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) as alveolar (aRMS) or embryonal (eRMS) is of prognostic importance, with the aRMS being associated with a worse outcome. Specific gene fusions (PAX3/7::FOXO1) found in the majority of aRMS have been recognized as markers associated with poor prognosis and are included in current risk stratification instead of histologic subtypes in localized disease. In metastatic disease, the independent prognostic significance of fusion status has not been definitively established.
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January 2025
The People's Hospital of Gaozhou, Gaozhou 525200, China.
Cyclin D3 (CCND3), a member of the cyclin D family, is known to promote cell cycle transition. In this study, we found that CCND3 was downregulated in cisplatin-resistant (-diamminedichloroplatinum, DDP) lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) cells. The loss of CCND3 indeed impeded cell cycle transition.
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