scholarly journals Tumor-associated Tissue Eosinophilia Predicts Favorable Clinical Outcome in Solid Tumors: A Meta-analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoming Hu ◽  
Shimin Wang ◽  
Kefang Zhong ◽  
Feng Xu ◽  
Liming Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Node ◽  
Lymph Node Metastasis ◽  
Clinical Outcome ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Node Metastasis ◽  
Human Cancers ◽  
Tissue Eosinophilia ◽  
Favorable Clinical Outcome

Abstract Background: Activated eosinophils have been deemed to affect carcinogenesis and tumor progression via various mechanisms in tumor microenvironment. However, the prognostic role of tumor-associated tissue eosinophilia (TATE) in human cancers remains controversial. Therefore, we performed the meta-analysis to better understand the role of TATE in prognosis prediction for cancer patients.Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase and EBSCO to identify the studies evaluating the association between TATE and overall survival (OS) and/or disease-free survival (DFS) in cancer patients, then computed extracted data into hazard ratios (HRs) for OS, DFS and clinicopathological features such as lymph node metastasis etc with STATA 12.0.Results: A total of 6384 patients from 26 published studies were incorporated into this meta-analysis. We found that the presence of TATE was significantly associated with improved OS, but not with DFS in all types of cancers. In stratified analyses based on cancer types, pooled results indicated that the infiltration of eosinophils was significantly associated with better OS in esophageal carcinoma and colorectal cancer. In addition, TATE significantly inversely correlated with lymph node metastasis, tumor stage and lymphatic invasion of cancer.Conclusion: TATE leads to a favorable clinical outcome in cancer patients, implicating that it is a valuable biomarker for prognostic prediction for human cancers and clinical application of biological response modifiers or agonists promoting TATE may be the novel therapeutic strategy for patients.

scholarly journals Tumor-associated Tissue Eosinophilia Predicts Favorable Clinical Outcome in Solid Tumors: A Meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoming Hu ◽  
Shimin Wang ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Liming Huang
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Node ◽  
Lymph Node Metastasis ◽  
Clinical Outcome ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Node Metastasis ◽  
Human Cancers ◽  
Tissue Eosinophilia ◽  
Favorable Clinical Outcome

Abstract Background: Activated eosinophils have been deemed to affect carcinogenesis and tumor progression via various mechanisms in tumor microenvironment. However, the prognostic role of tumor-associated tissue eosinophilia (TATE) in human cancers still remains controversial. Therefore, we performed the meta-analysis to better understand the role of TATE in prognosis prediction for cancer patients. Methods: We searched PubMed and EBSCO to identify the studies evaluating the association of TATE and overall survival (OS) and/or disease-free survival (DFS) in cancer patients, then computed extracted data into hazard ratios (HRs) for OS, DFS and clinicopathological features such as lymph node metastasis etc with STATA 12.0. Results: A total of 6125 patients from 25 published studies were incorporated into this meta-analysis. We found that the presence of TATE significantly improved OS and 5-year DFS in all types of cancers. In stratified analyses based on cancer types, pooled results indicated that eosinophils infiltrating into tumor tissue was significantly associated with better OS in oral cancer, esophageal carcinoma and colorectal cancer. In addition, TATE was significantly inversely correlated with lymph node metastasis, tumor stage and lymphatic invasion of cancer. Conclusion: TATE leads to a favorable clinical outcome in cancer patients, implicating that it is a valuable biomarker for prognostic prediction for human cancers and clinical application of biological response modifiers or agonists promoting TATE may be the novel therapeutic strategy for patients.

scholarly journals Prognosis assessment of CD44+/CD24- in Breast Cancer Patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjing Gu ◽  
Dandan Chen ◽  
Zhiqiang li ◽  
Yongliang Yang ◽  
Zhaoming Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Lymph Node ◽  
Lymph Node Metastasis ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Distant Metastasis ◽  
Tumor Size ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Clinical Prognosis ◽  
Node Metastasis

Abstract Purpose: This meta-analysis investigated the relationships between the CD44+/CD24- phenotype and tumor size, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival (OS) in 8036 postoperative breast cancer patients enrolled in 23 studies.Methods: A literature search of PubMed, Medline, Cochrane, Embase, and PMC was conducted to identify eligible studies. The combined odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CIs) were analyzed to evaluate the relationships between the CD44+/CD24- phenotype and the pathological and biological characteristics of breast cancer patients, and the combined hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs were calculated to evaluate the relationships between CD44+/CD24- and DFS and OS of breast cancer petients using Stata12.0 software.Results: The CD44+/CD24- phenotype were not related to the tumor size (tumor size > 2.0 cm vs ≤ 2.0 cm, combined OR = 0.98, 95%CI: 0.68–1.34, p = 0.792) and didn’t promote lymph node metastasis (lymph node metastasis vs. no lymph node metastasis, combined OR = 0.94, 95% CI: 0.71–1.26, p = 0.692) and distant metastasis (distant metastasis vs no distant metastasis, combined OR = 3.88, 95% CI: 0.93–16.24, p = 0.064). The CD44+/CD24- phenotype was negatively correlated with postoperative DFS (HR = 1.67, 95% CI: 1.35–2.07, p <0.00001) and OS (combined HR = 1.52, 95%CI: 1.21–1.91, p = 0.0004).Conclusion: These results suggested expression of the CD44+/CD24- phenotype can be used as a reliable indicator of clinical prognosis and a potential therapeutic targets in breastcancer patients.

scholarly journals Long noncoding RNA UCA1 as a novel biomarker of lymph node metastasis and prognosis in human cancer: a meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Congmin Liu ◽  
Jing Jin ◽  
Jin Shi ◽  
Liqun Wang ◽  
Zhaoyu Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Node ◽  
Lymph Node Metastasis ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Long Noncoding Rna ◽  
Noncoding Rna ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Node Metastasis ◽  
Increased Risk

AbstractBackground: Urothelial carcinoma associated 1 (UCA1), a novel long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) which is first discovered in 2006 in human bladder cancer and has become a hot spot in recent years. UCA1 has been demonstrated correlated with clinical outcomes in various cancers. However, the results from each study are insufficient and not completely consistent. Therefore, we perform a systematic meta-analysis to evaluate the value for a feasible biomarker for metastasis and prognosis of cancer. Methods: Relevant English literatures were searched in PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of science, Embase databases and Chinese literatures were searched in Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure Wanfang from inception up to 17 April 2018. The pooled odds ratio (OR) and hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) using random/fixed-effect were used to identify the relationship between UCA1 and lymph node metastasis (LNM) or overall survival (OS) of cancer patients. Subgroup analysis and sensitivity analysis were performed. The current meta-analysis was performed using Review Manager 5.3 and Stata 12.0 software. Results: A total of 3411 patients from 38 studies were finally included. Patients who with high UCA1 expression suffered from an increased risk of LNM (OR = 2.50; 95% CI: 1.93–3.25). UCA1 was also significantly associated with OS (HR = 2.05; 95% CI: 1.77–2.38). Subgroup analyses across several different variables also showed the similar results in LNM and OS of cancer patients. Conclusion: High expression of UCA1 was linked with poor clinical outcome. UCA1 can serve as a potential molecular marker for metastasis and prognosis in different types of cancers.

Further considerations on meta analysis of lymph node metastasis of breast cancer patients

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (9) ◽  
pp. 1683-1684
Author(s):  
Xu Li ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Zhang Yue ◽  
Yinwen Li ◽  
Zhuoqun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Lymph Node ◽  
Lymph Node Metastasis ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Node Metastasis

scholarly journals MiR-19a as a prognostic indicator for cancer patients: a meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yizhong Peng ◽  
Donghua Huang ◽  
Kaige Ma ◽  
Xiangyu Deng ◽  
Zengwu Shao
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Node ◽  
Lymph Node Metastasis ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Prognostic Indicator ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
China National Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Node Metastasis ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Fixed Model

AbstractMiR-19a was aberrantly expressed in various types of cancers and was observed to be potentially associated with the prognosis of cancer patients. The present analysis aims to elucidate its precise predictive value in various human malignancies. Online electronic searches of PubMed, Web of Science (WOS), Embase in English and VIP, Wanfang, SinoMed, and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) in Chinese up to September 8, 2018 were conducted. As a result, in overall analysis, a significant association was identified between miR-19a levels and OS (HRs = 2.31, CI: 1.11–4.83). The relation of miR-19a expression to OS was further recognized by fixed model within the studies of sample size less than 150 (HRs = 1.68, CI: 1.35–2.08), NOS scores greater than or equal to 8 (HRs = 1.53, CI: 1.13–2.06) or less than 8 (HRs = 1.89, CI: 1.58–2.27), specimen derived from tumor (HRs = 1.73, CI: 1.42–2.12) or blood (HRs = 1.87, CI: 1.46–2.40) and the patients of osteosarcoma (HRs = 7.17, CI: 5.04–10.21). Sensitivity analyses revealed no significant results. The association between miR-19a expression level and DFS was also found to be significant (HRs = 2.03, CI: 1.13–3.66). Correlations between miR-19a levels and clinicopathological features were examined and revealed that lymph node metastasis was significantly associated with miR-19a expression levels (OR = 0.565, CI: 0.346–0.921). Summarily, the over expression of miR-19a was an underlying risk of poor prognosis in many human malignancies, especially in osteosarcoma. Moreover, elevated miR-19a expression was linked to the potential of lymph node metastasis.

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