scholarly journals Polymorphisms of the DNA Methyltransferase 1 Gene Predict Survival of Gastric Cancer Patients Receiving Tumorectomy

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifang Jia ◽  
Xing Wu ◽  
Donghui Cao ◽  
Chuan Wang ◽  
Lili You ◽  
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DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) plays a pivotal role in maintaining DNA methylation status. Polymorphisms ofDNMT1may modify the role of DNMT1 in prognosis of gastric cancer (GC). Our aim was to test whether polymorphisms ofDNMT1gene were associated with overall survival of GC. Four hundred and forty-seven GC patients who underwent radical tumorectomy were enrolled in the study. Five tagging SNPs (rs10420321, rs16999593, rs2228612, rs2228611, and rs2288349) of theDNMT1gene were genotyped by TaqMan assays. Kaplan-Meier survival plots and Cox proportional hazard regression were used to analyze the associations between SNPs ofDNMT1and survival of GC. Patients carrying rs2228611 GA/AA genotype tended to live longer than those bearing the GG genotype (HR 0.68, 95% CI: 0.51–0.91,P=0.007). Further multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that rs2228611 was an independent prognostic factor (GA/AA versus GG: OR 0.67, 95% CI 0.49–0.91,P=0.010). Nevertheless, other SNPs did not show any significant associations with survival of GC. Polymorphisms of theDNMT1gene may affect overall survival of GC. The SNP rs2228611 has the potentiality to serve as an independent prognostic marker for GC patients.

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Zheng ◽  
Zizhen Zhang ◽  
Ning Ding ◽  
Jiawei Sun ◽  
Yifeng Lin ◽  
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Abstract Introduction Angiogenesis is a key factor in promoting tumor growth, invasion and metastasis. In this study we aimed to investigate the prognostic value of angiogenesis-related genes (ARGs) in gastric cancer (GC). Methods mRNA sequencing data with clinical information of GC were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases. The differentially expressed ARGs between normal and tumor tissues were analyzed by limma package, and then prognosis‑associated genes were screened using Cox regression analysis. Nine angiogenesis genes were identified as crucially related to the overall survival (OS) of patients through least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression. The prognostic model and corresponding nomograms were establish based on 9 ARGs and verified in in both TCGA and GEO GC cohorts respectively. Results Eighty-five differentially expressed ARGs and their enriched pathways were confirmed. Significant enrichment analysis revealed that ARGs-related signaling pathway genes were highly related to tumor angiogenesis development. Kaplan–Meier analysis revealed that patients in the high-risk group had worse OS rates compared with the low-risk group in training cohort and validation cohort. In addition, RS had a good prognostic effect on GC patients with different clinical features, especially those with advanced GC. Besides, the calibration curves verified fine concordance between the nomogram prediction model and actual observation. Conclusions We developed a nine gene signature related to the angiogenesis that can predict overall survival for GC. It’s assumed to be a valuable prognosis model with high efficiency, providing new perspectives in targeted therapy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 3896-3904
Author(s):  
Daoting Deng ◽  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Junxi Liu ◽  
Lina Ma ◽  
Xinrui Lei ◽  
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To explore exosomal miR-375 expression in gastric cancer patients and its relationship with patient prognosis. A total of 53 patients diagnosed with gastric cancer in our hospital from May 2014 to May 2016 were included as the gastric cancer group, and 46 healthy women who came to our hospital for physical examination during the same period were enrolled as the healthy group. Exosomal miR-375 expression level was detected using qRT-PCR, and the diagnostic performance and prognostic significance of exosomal miR-375 in gastric cancer were explored. The gastric cancer group showed increased exosomal miR-375 expression than the healthy group (P< 0.05); Kaplan-Meier survival analysis exhibited that serum exosomal miR-375 has an AUC of 0.778, sensitivity of 69.57%, and specificity of 75.47%, whereas Cox regression analysis showed that the miR-375 expression in exosomes was an independent risk factor affecting the prognosis of gastric cancer patients (P< 0.05). Patient with gastric cancer showed upregulated miR-375 expression in serum exosomes. Serum exosomal miR-375 was found to has positive sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis of gastric cancer, which may be associated with poor prognosis of gastric cancer patients.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pegah Farrokhi ◽  
Alireza Sadeghi ◽  
Mehran sharifi ◽  
Payam Dadvand ◽  
Rachel Riechelmann ◽  
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AbstractAimThis study aimed to evaluate and compare the efficacy and toxicity of common regimens used as perioperative chemotherapy including ECF, DCF, FOLFOX, and FLOT to identify the most effective chemotherapy regimen with less toxicity.Material and MethodsThis retrospective cohort study was based on 152 eligible gastric cancer patients recruited in a tertiary oncology hospital in Isfahan, Iran (2014-2019). All resectable gastric cancer patients who had received one of the four chemotherapy regimens including ECF, DCF, FOLFOX, or FLOT, and followed for at least one year (up to five years) were included. The primary endpoint of this study was Overall Survival (OS), Progression-Free Survival (PFS), Overall Response Rate (ORR), and R0 resection. We also considered toxicity according to CTCAE (v.4.0) criteria as a secondary endpoint. Cox -regression models were used applied to estimate OS and PFS time, controlled for relevant covariates.ResultsOf included patients, 32(21%), 51(33.7%), 37(24.3%), and 32(21%) had received ECF, DCF, FOLFOX and FLOT, respectively. After the median 25 months follow-up, overall survival was higher with the FLOT regimen in comparison with other regimens (hazard ratio [HR] = 0. 052). The median OS of the FLOT regimen was not reachable in Kaplan-Meier analysis and the median OS was 28, 26, and 23 months for DCF, FOLOFX, and ECF regimens, respectively. On the other hand, a median PFS of 25, 17, 15, and 14 months was observed for FLOT, DCF, FOLFOX, and ECF regimens, respectively (Log-rank = 0. 021). FLOT regimen showed 84. 4% ORR which was notably higher than other groups (p-value<0. 01).ConclusionsFor resectable gastric cancer patients, the perioperative FLOT regimen seemed to lead to a significant improvement in patients’ OS and PFS in comparison with ECF, DCF, and FOLFOX regimens. As such, the FLOT regimen could be considered as the optimal option for managing resectable gastric cancer patients.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Wang ◽  
Zihan Zheng ◽  
Qinghua Cao ◽  
Xiufen Liu ◽  
Zhiqing Wang

Abstract Backgroud Obg-like ATPase 1 (OLA1) is a member of the Obg family of P-loop NTPases and has recently been detected in several human cancer cells. However, its expression type and clinical relevance in gastric cancer remains unclear. Methods In the present study, 2 datasets downloaded from the open Gene Expression Omnibus database were used to evaluate the mRNA level of OLA1 in gastric cancer. Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR further validated the mRNA expression in gastric cancer tissues. Immunohistochemistry was performed on gastric cancer tissue microarray to assess OLA1 protein expression type, prognostic value, biological significance and its association with Snail in 334 patients of gastric cancer. The prognostic value of combination of OLA1 and Snail has been evaluated. Results The results showed that OLA1 mRNA and protein were elevated in gastric cancer tissues. High expression of OLA1 was significantly associated with aggressive features, such as tumor size, lymph node metastasis and TNM stage (P = 0.0146, P = 0.0037, P < 0.001, respectively). Moreover, high levels of OLA1 predicted worse overall survival. Multivariate Cox regression analysis indicated that high expression of OLA1 was an independent prognostic factor for poor overall survival (hazard ratio, 0.573; 95% confidence interval, 0.376–0.872; P = 0.009). Additionally, OLA1 expression was positively correlated with Snail, and combination of them revealed improved prognostic accuracy for gastric cancer patients. Conclusions Our results suggested that OLA1 high expression was considered as an independent factor for the prediction of unfavorable prognosis in gastric cancer patients, and we believe that OLA1 could serve as a biomarker of poor prognosis and a novel target in treating gastric cancers.


Author(s):  
Patrick Sven Plum ◽  
Heike Löser ◽  
Thomas Zander ◽  
Ahlem Essakly ◽  
Christiane J. Bruns ◽  
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Abstract Purpose Driver mutations are typically absent in esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). Mostly, oncogenes are amplified as driving molecular events (including GATA6-amplification in 14% of cases). However, only little is known about its biological function and clinical relevance. Methods We examined a large number of EAC (n = 496) for their GATA6 amplification by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analyzing both primary resected (n = 219) and neoadjuvant treated EAC (n = 277). Results were correlated to clinicopathological data and known mutations/amplifications in our EAC-cohort. Results GATA6 amplification was detectable in 49 (9.9%) EACs of our cohort. We observed an enrichment of GATA6-positive tumors among patients after neoadjuvant treatment (12,3% amplified tumors versus 6,8% in the primary resected group; p = 0.044). Additionally, there was a simultaneous amplification of PIK3CA and GATA6 (p < 0.001) not detectable when analyzing other genes such as EGFR, ERBB2, KRAS or MDM2. Although we did not identify a survival difference depending on GATA6 in the entire cohort (p = 0.212), GATA6 amplification was associated with prolonged overall survival among patients with primary surgery (median overall-survival 121.1 vs. 41.4 months, p = 0.032). Multivariate cox-regression analysis did not confirm GATA6 as an independent prognostic marker, neither in the entire cohort (p = 0.210), nor in the subgroup with (p = 0.655) or without pretreatment (p = 0.961). Conclusions Our study investigates the relevance of GATA6 amplification on a large tumor collective, which includes primary resected tumors and the clinically relevant group of neoadjuvant treated EACs. Especially in the pretreated group, we found an accumulation of GATA6-amplified tumors (12.3%) and a frequent co-amplification of PIK3CA. Our data suggest an increased resistance to radio-chemotherapy in GATA6-amplified tumors.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang-Chuan Mu ◽  
Yuan Huang ◽  
Zhi-Ming Liu ◽  
Xiang-Hua Wu ◽  
Xin-Gan Qin ◽  
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Abstract Background The aim of this study was to explore the prognostic factors and establish a nomogram to predict the long-term survival of gastric cancer patients. Methods The clinicopathological data of 421 gastric cancer patients, who were treated with radical D2 lymphadenectomy by the same surgical team between January 2009 and March 2017, were collected. The analysis of long-term survival was performed using Cox regression analysis. Based on the multivariate analysis results, a prognostic nomogram was formulated to predict the 5-year survival rate probability. Results In the present study, the total overall 3-year and 5-year survival rates were 58.7 and 45.8%, respectively. The results of the univariate Cox regression analysis revealed that tumor staging, tumor location, Borrmann type, the number of lymph nodes dissected, the number of lymph node metastases, positive lymph nodes ratio, lymphocyte count, serum albumin, CEA, CA153, CA199, BMI, tumor size, nerve invasion, and vascular invasion were prognostic factors for gastric cancer (all, P < 0.05). However, merely tumor staging, tumor location, positive lymph node ratio, CA199, BMI, tumor size, nerve invasion, and vascular invasion were independent risk factors, based on the results of the multivariate Cox regression analysis (all, P < 0.05). The nomogram based on eight independent prognostic factors revealed a well-degree of differentiation with a concordance index of 0.76 (95% CI: 0.72–0.79, P < 0.001), which was better than the AJCC-7 staging system (concordance index = 0.68). Conclusion The present study established a nomogram based on eight independent prognostic factors to predict long-term survival in gastric cancer patients. The nomogram would be beneficial for more accurately predicting the prognosis of gastric cancer, and provide important basis for making individualized treatment plans following surgery.


2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 2890-2900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilin Hu ◽  
Peng Ma ◽  
Ying Feng ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
Hua Wang ◽  
...  

Background This study aimed to investigate whether the detection of methylation in the promoter of the Ras association domain family 10 gene ( RASSF10) in the serum of patients with gastric cancer (GC) by methylation-specific PCR (MSP) can be used as a diagnostic and prognostic indicator of GC. Methods We used MSP to examine RASSF10 methylation levels in the serum and/or tumor samples from 100 GC patients, 50 patients with chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG), and 45 healthy controls (HC). We also analyzed clinicopathological and follow-up data. Results Our results showed that the rate of serum RASFF10 promoter methylation among patients with GC (49/100) was higher than in those with CAG (1/50) or HC (0/45). Moreover, the RASSF10 methylation status was consistent between serum and tumor tissues. GC patients with serum RASSF10 promoter methylation had significantly shorter overall survival and disease-free survival times than GC patients without serum RASSF10 promoter methylation. Multivariable Cox regression analysis showed that serum RASSF10 promoter methylation and lymph node metastasis both correlated with reduced survival in GC patients. Conclusions Detection of the serum RASSF10 methylation status by MSP is feasible as a diagnostic and prognostic indicator of GC.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 751-759
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Weili Wang ◽  
Ping Liao ◽  
Kun Song ◽  
Zhanwei Zhu ◽  
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Background: Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and postoperative chemotherapeutics interact in the tumor micro-environment. This interaction has not been well investigated in gastric cancer. Materials & methods: A total of 129 patients were divided into high or low TILs based on the median number of positive CD3+ and FoxP3+ T cells, which was assessed by immunocytochemistry. Results: Cox regression analysis showed that the stage III disease with shorter overall survival was significant. The analysis showed that high numbers of CD3+ or FoxP3+ T cells have better clinical outcomes in FOLFOX-treated patients. Conclusion: High CD3+ and FoxP3+ T-cell infiltration was associated with better clinical outcomes in patients with gastric cancer treated with FOLFOX, suggesting TILs incorporated into algorithms to improve the therapeutic efficacy of optimal chemotherapy.


2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2701-2709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akao Zhu ◽  
Jiazeng Xia ◽  
Junbo Zuo ◽  
Shimao Jin ◽  
Hong Zhou ◽  
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