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Molecular profile of poorly cohesive gastric carcinoma with special reference to survival
Patients with poorly cohesive gastric carcinoma (PCC) are known to have poor survival. However, detailed molecular biology of PCC has not been elucidated, except for mutations in CDH1 and RHOA. Additionally, the ...
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Open AccessOverview and clinical significance of multiple mutations in individual genes in hepatocellular carcinoma
Multiple mutation (MM) within a single gene has recently been reported as a mechanism involved in carcinogenesis. The present study investigated the clinical significance of MMs in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
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Trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 expression in lung cancer patients and the effects of anti-cancer treatments
Trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (TROP2) is expressed on the surface of trophoblast cells and many malignant tumor cells. However, data on TROP2 expression in advanced lung cancer are insufficient, and its c...
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Molecular classification of gastric cancer predicts survival in patients undergoing radical gastrectomy based on project HOPE
Gastric cancer (GC) has been classified based on molecular profiling like The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Asian Cancer Research Group (ACRG), and attempts have been made to establish therapeutic strategies ...
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Can breast MRI and adjunctive Doppler ultrasound improve the accuracy of predicting pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
To examine the accuracy of MRI and Doppler ultrasound (US) for detecting residual tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for breast cancer and evaluate whether adjunctive Doppler US improves the MRI accuracy.
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Discrepancy between endoscopic and pathological ulcerative findings in clinical intramucosal early gastric cancer
Ulcerative finding (UL) is one of the factors that define the indication and curability of endoscopic resection (ER) in early gastric cancer (EGC). Discrepancies between endoscopic UL (cUL) and pathological UL...
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Detection of programmed cell death-ligand 1 using 22C3 antibody in patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer receiving chemoradiotherapy
The expression of programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a biomarker for administering immune check point inhibitors in patients with advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer. Although the consolidation th...
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MAGEA10 expression is a predictive marker of early hepatic recurrence after curative gastrectomy for gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer
Resection for hepatic recurrence after gastrectomy in patients with gastric cancer may be curative; however, the prediction of hepatic recurrence remains intractable. Therefore, we aimed to explore predictive ...
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Open AccessRetrospective analysis of salvage surgery for local progression of brain metastasis previously treated with stereotactic irradiation: diagnostic contribution, functional outcome, and prognostic factors
Stereotactic irradiation (STI) is a primary treatment for patients with newly diagnosed brain metastases. Some of these patients experience local progression, which is difficult to differentiate from radiation...
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Risk stratification for lymph node metastasis using Epstein–Barr virus status in submucosal invasive (pT1) gastric cancer without lymphovascular invasion: a multicenter observational study
Lymphovascular invasion (LVI) is a strong predictive factor for lymph node metastasis (LNM) in early gastric cancer (GC). This study investigated the risk for LNM in pT1b GC without LVI based on Epstein–Barr v...
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Identification of S100A14 as a metastasis-promoting molecule in a murine organotropic metastasis model
Cancer metastasis shows great diversity in target organs, routes and molecular mechanisms depending on the type of cancer and even on the individual patients. To identify key molecules involved in metastasis, ...
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Effect of double-layer structure in intramucosal gastric signet-ring cell carcinoma on lymph node metastasis: a retrospective, single-center study
Among all types of gastric cancer (GC), signet-ring cell carcinoma (sig-GC) accounts for 4–17% of cases. The prognosis of early sig-GC is relatively good, with the 5-year survival rate at 99.7%. However, the c...
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Does breast cancer growth rate really depend on tumor subtype? Measurement of tumor doubling time using serial ultrasonography between diagnosis and surgery
Breast cancer growth is generally expected to differ between tumor subtypes. We aimed to evaluate tumor doubling time (DT) using ultrasonography and verify whether each tumor subtype has a unique DT.
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Changes in programmed death ligand 1 expression in non-small cell lung cancer patients who received anticancer treatments
The expression of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) is considered a predictive biomarker of anti-programmed death 1 (PD-1)/PD-L1 cancer therapies. However, changes in PD-L1 expression of tumor cells during cli...
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Comparative study of Western and Japanese criteria for biopsy-based diagnosis of gastric epithelial neoplasia
In Western countries, gastric cancer (GC) is diagnosed when there is histological evidence of invasion into the lamina propria or beyond the submucosa. In Japan and some other countries, however, diagnosis of ...
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Open AccessCo-expression of S100A14 and S100A16 correlates with a poor prognosis in human breast cancer and promotes cancer cell invasion
S100 family proteins have recently been identified as biomarkers in various cancers. Of this protein family, S100A14 and S100A16 are also believed to play an important role in tumor progression. The aim of the...
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Open Accessα-type-1 polarized dendritic cell-based vaccination in recurrent high-grade glioma: a phase I clinical trial
High-grade gliomas including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are among the most malignant and aggressive of tumors, and have a very poor prognosis despite a temozolomide-based intensive treatment. Therefore, a n...
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Sinusoidal tumor angiogenesis is a key component in hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has a tendency for intravascular dissemination leading to a poor prognosis. The importance of the sinusoidal structure of the tumor vasculature in HCC has been implicated in the ...