EFFICACY OF COLD POLYPECTOMY TECHNIQUES FOR SMALL POLYP (< 1CM) IN THE COLORECTUM

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
Tan Le Minh ◽  
Thuong Nguyen Thi Huyen ◽  
Huy Tran Van

Background/Aim: Colonoscopic polypectomy is a very important intervention for the prevention of colorectal cancer progression. Whereas various techniques are used for the removal of polyps, hot polypectomy with electrocautery is still a standard technique. However, this technique has been associated with an increased risk of electrocautery-related complications, including bleeding or perforation. To reduce these complications, recent studies have found a polypectomy technique without electrocautery, so-called cold polypectomy. This new technique shows more efficacious in diminutive/small polyps. This study aims to evaluate the complete retrieval rate and the complications of cold polypectomy technique. Patients/Methods: Prospectively study, 103 diminutive/small (< 1cm) polyps (53 patients) were removed by cold polypectomy technique from 11/2016 to 11/2017. Results: the complete retrieval rate was 97.1%. The immediate bleeding rate was 1.9%. No delayed bleeding and perforation occurred in any 103 polyps. Conclusion: Cold polypectomy is a safe and effective technique for diminutive/small polyps. Key words: cold polypectomy, hot polypectomy, colonoscopy, small polyp, diminutive polyp

2019 ◽  
Vol 07 (09) ◽  
pp. E1123-E1129
Author(s):  
Masato Aizawa ◽  
Kenichi Utano ◽  
Takuya Tsunoda ◽  
Osamu Ichii ◽  
Takashi Kato ◽  
...  

Abstract Background and study aims Delayed bleeding is believed to occur less frequently after cold snare polypectomy (CSP), but this has not been validated in clinical trials. This study aimed to compare rates of delayed bleeding after CSP and hot snare polypectomy (HSP). Patients and methods We conducted a multicenter, randomized controlled trial. Participants scheduled to undergo endoscopic resection of colorectal polyps ≤ 10 mm were enrolled and randomly assigned to CSP or HSP. Prophylactic clipping was performed at the endoscopists’ discretion. The primary outcome was delayed bleeding rate. Secondary outcomes included immediate bleeding rate and clipping rate. Sample size calculation showed that 451 patients were required in each arm. Results At the end of the study period decided in advance, 308 participants were recruited and an interim analysis was performed. A total of 273 patients (mean age 62.2 ± 8.8 years; 188 males) were analyzed, with 139 patients allocated to CSP and 134 to HSP. In total, 367 polyps were resected with CSP and 360 polyps with HSP. There were no significant differences in patient demographics or polyp characteristics. In per-patient-based analysis, delayed bleeding rates were 0.7 % after CSP and 0.7 % after HSP. Per-polyp analysis showed similar results (CSP: 0.3 % vs. HSP: 0.6 %). The immediate bleeding rate was significantly higher with CSP vs. HSP (54 % vs.14 %, P < 0.0001), while clipping rates were 18 % and 19 %, respectively. Conclusion This interim analysis did not demonstrate that delayed bleeding after CSP is less frequent than after HSP. The delayed bleeding rate after HSP was lower than expected.Meeting presentations: Digestive Disease Week 2017


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangfang Yang ◽  
Hua Wang ◽  
Bianbian Yan ◽  
Tong Li ◽  
Lulu Min ◽  
...  

Abstract The molecular pathogenesis of colorectal cancer (CRC) has been widely investigated in recent years. Accumulating evidence has indicated that microRNA (miRNA) dysregulation participates in the processes of driving CRC initiation and progression. Aberrant expression of miR-1301 has been found in various tumor types. However, its role in CRC remains to be elucidated. In the present study, we identified miR-1301 was enriched in normal colorectal tissues and significantly down-regulated in CRC. Decreased level of miR-1301 strongly correlated with aggressive pathological characteristics, including advanced stage and metastasis. Bioinformatics and dual luciferase assay demonstrated that STAT3 is a direct target of miR-1301. Gain and loss-of-function assays showed that miR-1301 had no effect on cell proliferation. Overexpression of miR-1301 suppressed cell migration and invasion capacity of pSTA3-positive LoVo cells, but not pSTAT3-negative SW480 cells, while inhibition of miR-1301 consistently promoted cell migration and invasion in both cell lines. Additionally, miR-1301 inhibition restored the suppressed migration and invasion of STAT3- knockdown LoVo cells. MiR-1301 functioned as a tumor suppressor to modulate the IL6/STAT3 signaling pathway. In summary, this study highlights the significant role of miR- 1301/STAT3 axis in CRC metastasis.


Oncogenesis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Huang ◽  
Yichao Hou ◽  
Xiaoling Weng ◽  
Wenjing Pang ◽  
Lidan Hou ◽  
...  

AbstractExploring novel anticancer drugs to optimize the efficacy may provide a benefit for the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC). Disulfiram (DSF), as an antialcoholism drug, is metabolized into diethyldithiocarbamate-copper complex (CuET) in vivo, which has been reported to exert the anticancer effects on various tumors in preclinical studies. However, little is known about whether CuET plays an anti-cancer role in CRC. In this study, we found that CuET had a marked effect on suppressing CRC progression both in vitro and in vivo by reducing glucose metabolism. Mechanistically, using RNA-seq analysis, we identified ALDH1A3 as a target gene of CuET, which promoted cell viability and the capacity of clonal formation and inhibited apoptosis in CRC cells. MicroRNA (miR)-16-5p and 15b-5p were shown to synergistically regulate ALDH1A3, which was negatively correlated with both of them and inversely correlated with the survival of CRC patients. Notably, using co-immunoprecipitation followed with mass spectrometry assays, we identified PKM2 as a direct downstream effector of ALDH1A3 that stabilized PKM2 by reducing ubiquitination. Taken together, we disclose that CuET treatment plays an active role in inhibiting CRC progression via miR-16-5p and 15b-5p/ALDH1A3/PKM2 axis–mediated aerobic glycolysis pathway.


Biomedicines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Francisca Dias ◽  
Cristina Almeida ◽  
Ana Luísa Teixeira ◽  
Mariana Morais ◽  
Rui Medeiros

The development and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC) have been associated with genetic and epigenetic alterations and more recently with changes in cell metabolism. Amino acid transporters are key players in tumor development, and it is described that tumor cells upregulate some AA transporters in order to support the increased amino acid (AA) intake to sustain the tumor additional needs for tumor growth and proliferation through the activation of several signaling pathways. LAT1 and ASCT2 are two AA transporters involved in the regulation of the mTOR pathway that has been reported as upregulated in CRC. Some attempts have been made in order to develop therapeutic approaches to target these AA transporters, however none have reached the clinical setting so far. MiRNA-based therapies have been gaining increasing attention from pharmaceutical companies and now several miRNA-based drugs are currently in clinical trials with promising results. In this review we combine a bioinformatic approach with a literature review in order to identify a miRNA profile with the potential to target both LAT1 and ASCT2 with potential to be used as a therapeutic approach against CRC.


Oncogene ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. McAndrews ◽  
Karina Vázquez-Arreguín ◽  
Changsoo Kwak ◽  
Hikaru Sugimoto ◽  
Xiaofeng Zheng ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 2469-2479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Wang ◽  
Hongwei Liu ◽  
Yingying Shao ◽  
Kailong Wang ◽  
Shuangshuang Yin ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Marta Codrich ◽  
Emiliano Dalla ◽  
Catia Mio ◽  
Giulia Antoniali ◽  
Matilde Clarissa Malfatti ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. The heterogeneity of CRC identity limits the usage of cell lines to study this type of tumor because of the limited representation of multiple features of the original malignancy. Patient-derived colon organoids (PDCOs) are a promising 3D-cell model to study tumor identity for personalized medicine, although this approach still lacks detailed characterization regarding molecular stability during culturing conditions. Correlation analysis that considers genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data, as well as thawing, timing, and culturing conditions, is missing. Methods Through integrated multi–omics strategies, we characterized PDCOs under different growing and timing conditions, to define their ability to recapitulate the original tumor. Results Whole Exome Sequencing allowed detecting temporal acquisition of somatic variants, in a patient-specific manner, having deleterious effects on driver genes CRC-associated. Moreover, the targeted NGS approach confirmed that organoids faithfully recapitulated patients’ tumor tissue. Using RNA-seq experiments, we identified 5125 differentially expressed transcripts in tumor versus normal organoids at different time points, in which the PTEN pathway resulted of particular interest, as also confirmed by further phospho-proteomics analysis. Interestingly, we identified the PTEN c.806_817dup (NM_000314) mutation, which has never been reported previously and is predicted to be deleterious according to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) classification. Conclusion The crosstalk of genomic, transcriptomic and phosphoproteomic data allowed to observe that PDCOs recapitulate, at the molecular level, the tumor of origin, accumulating mutations over time that potentially mimic the evolution of the patient’s tumor, underlining relevant potentialities of this 3D model.


Metabolites ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Pejman Salahshouri ◽  
Modjtaba Emadi-Baygi ◽  
Mahdi Jalili ◽  
Faiz M. Khan ◽  
Olaf Wolkenhauer ◽  
...  

The human gut microbiota plays a dual key role in maintaining human health or inducing disorders, for example, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancers such as colorectal cancer (CRC). High-throughput data analysis, such as metagenomics and metabolomics, have shown the diverse effects of alterations in dynamic bacterial populations on the initiation and progression of colorectal cancer. However, it is well established that microbiome and human cells constantly influence each other, so it is not appropriate to study them independently. Genome-scale metabolic modeling is a well-established mathematical framework that describes the dynamic behavior of these two axes at the system level. In this study, we created community microbiome models of three conditions during colorectal cancer progression, including carcinoma, adenoma and health status, and showed how changes in the microbial population influence intestinal secretions. Conclusively, our findings showed that alterations in the gut microbiome might provoke mutations and transform adenomas into carcinomas. These alterations include the secretion of mutagenic metabolites such as H2S, NO compounds, spermidine and TMA, as well as the reduction of butyrate. Furthermore, we found that the colorectal cancer microbiome can promote inflammation, cancer progression (e.g., angiogenesis) and cancer prevention (e.g., apoptosis) by increasing and decreasing certain metabolites such as histamine, glutamine and pyruvate. Thus, modulating the gut microbiome could be a promising strategy for the prevention and treatment of CRC.


2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 1839-1850
Author(s):  
A. Sica ◽  
M. P. Colombo ◽  
A. Trama ◽  
L. Horn ◽  
M. C. Garassino ◽  
...  

Cancer patients appear to be more likely to be diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This is supported by the understanding of immunometabolic pathways that intersect patients with infection and cancer. However, data derived by case series and retrospective studies do not offer a coherent interpretation, since data from China suggest an increased risk of COVID-19, while data from the United States and Italy show a prevalence of COVID-19 in cancer patients comparable with the general population. Noteworthy, cancer and COVID-19 exploit distinct patterns of macrophage activation that promote disease progression in the most severe forms. In particular, the alternative activation of M2-polarized macrophages plays a crucial role in cancer progression. In contrast, the macrophage-activation syndrome appears as the source of M1-related cytokine storm in severe COVID-19 disease, thus indicating macrophages as a source of distinct inflammatory states in the two diseases, nonetheless as a common therapeutic target. New evidence indicates that NAMPT/NAD metabolism can direct both innate immune cell effector functions and the homeostatic robustness, in both cancer and infection. Moreover, a bidirectional relationship exists between the metabolism of NAD and the protective role that angiotensin converting enzyme 2, the COVID-19 receptor, can play against hyperinflammation. Within this immunometabolic framework, the review considers possible interference mechanisms that viral infections and tumors elicit on therapies and provides an overview for the management of patients with cancer affected by COVID-19, particularly for the balance of risk and benefit when planning normally routine cancer treatments and follow-up appointments.


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