• 대한골관절종양학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2007

목적: 골의 거대세포종양의 재발과 면역조직화학적 표지자와의 연관성을 연구하였다. 대상 및 방법: 골에서 유발된 거대세포종양 10례를 대상으로 하였다. 6명은 남자, 4명은 여자였다. 모든 환자는 수술 전 생검을 통해 확진 후 수술을 시행하였다. 방사선학적 분류는 Enneking grading system에 의하여 이루어졌다. 면역조직화학적 연구를 위해 MCM3, Ki-67 그리고 HH3 표지자가 사용되었다. 면역조직화학적 검사는 Microarray block을 사용하여 시행하였다. 결과: 10례 중 3례(30%)에서 같은 위치에서 재발되었다. 재발된 3례 중 2례는 방사선학적 단계 상 단계 2였고, 1례는 단계 1이었다. 면역조직화학적 표지자의 발현율이 방사선학적 단계 1보다 2, 3에서 증가되었다. 하지만 결과의 일관성이 없어 세포 증식율과 방사선학적 단계의 연관성은 판별하기 어렵다. 평균 MCM3 표지자의 발현율은 재발하지 않은 종양에서 11.2%, 재발한 종양에서 7.2%였다. Ki-67은 12%, 8.9% 였고, HH3는 66.9%, 75.4%였다. MCM3 와 Ki-67 표지자는 재발한 종양에서 오히려 감소된 결과를 보여 재발율과는 연관이 없을 것으로 생각된다. HH3표지자는 재발한 종양에서 증가된 소견을 보여 거대세포종양의 재발과 연관이 있음을 보여주었다. 결론: 본 연구는 면역조직화학적 표지자 중 HH3표지자가 거대세포종양의 재발 가능성을 판정하는데 기준이 될 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권22호
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• pp.9611-9614
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• 2014

Purpose: To investigate the clinical value in lung cancer of a combination of four serum tumor markers, haptoglobin (Hp), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), neuron specific enolase (NSE) as well as the cytokeratin 19 fragment (CYFRA21-1). Materials and Methods: Serum Hp (with immune-turbidimetric method), CEA, NSE, CYFRA21-1 (with chemiluminescence method) level were assessed in 193 patients with lung cancer, 87 patients with benign lung disease and 150 healthy controls. Differences of expression were compared among groups, and joint effects of these tumor markers for the diagnosis of lung cancer were analyzed. Results: Serum tumor marker levels in patients with lung cancer were obviously higher than those with benign lung disease and normal controls (p<0.01). The sensitivities of Hp, CEA, NSE and CYFRA21-1 were 43.5%, 40.9%, 23.3% and 41.5%, with specificities of 90.7%, 99.2%, 97.9% and 97.9%. Four tumor markers combined together could produce a positive detection rate of 85.0%, significantly higher than that of any single test. With squamous carcinomas, the positive detection rates with Hp and CYFRA21-1 were higher than that of other markers. In the adenocarcinoma case, the positive detection rate of CEA was higher than that of other markers. For small cell carcinomas, the positive detection rate of NSE was highest. The area under receiver operating characteristic curve ($AUC^{ROC}$) of Hp in squamous carcinoma (0.805) was higher than in adenocarcinoma (0.664) and small cell carcinoma (0.665). Conclusions: Hp can be used as a new serum tumor marker for lung cancer. Combination detection of Hp, CEA, NSE and CYFRA21-1 could significantly improve the sensitivity and specificity in diagnosis of lung cancer, and could be useful for pathological typing.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.769-773
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• 2015

Fibulin-5 has recently been considered as a potential tumor suppressor in human cancers. Several studies have shown that it is down-regulated in a variety of tumor types and inhibits tumor growth and metastasis. This study was aimed to investigate the clinical significance of fibulin-5 in glioma and its role in cell proliferation and invasion. We found that the expression of fibulin-5 in glioma tissues was significantly lower than those in normal brain (NB) tissues. Negative expression was significantly correlated with advanced clinical stage (grade III+IV). Furthermore, Fibulin-5 negative expression was correlated with a shorter overall survival of glioma patients. Multivariate Cox repression analysis indicated that fibulin-5 was an independent factor for predicting overall survival of glioma patients. Overexpression obviously inhibited cell proliferation in U251 and U87 cells. Furthermore, it significantly reduced the number of migrating and invading glioma cells. In conclusion, impaired expression of fibulin-5 is correlated with the advanced tumor stage in glioma. Otherwise, Fibulin-5 is an independent prognostic marker for predicting overall survival of glioma patients. Mechanistically, it may function as a tumor suppressor via inhibiting cell proliferation and invasion in gliomas.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.605-612
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• 2014

Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes a Th1 cellular immunity. Our previous study showed that T. gondii lysate antigen (TLA) treatment in S180 tumor-bearing mice resulted in tumor reduction by suppressing CD31 expression, a marker of angiogenesis. In the present study, to investigate tumor suppressive effect of TLA under the absence of T lymphocytes, athymic nude mice were compared with euthymic mice in the anti-tumorigenic effect triggered by TLA in CT26 tumors. According to the results, intratumorally injected TLA reduced tumor growth and TIMP-1 level, a metastatic marker, in both euthymic and athymic mice. TLA treatment led to a sharp increase in IL-12 expression in serum cytokine profiling of athymic mice, and increased MyD88 signals in macrophages derived from the bone marrow, implying the activation of innate immunity. The selective induction of IL-12 by TLA treatment had an anti-tumorigenic effect.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2007

This study was to evaluate the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFRs) in tumor and stromal cells of tougue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). We also wanted to characterize the differences, from the angiogenic aspect, between cancer-associated stromal cells and non-malignant stromal cells. Paraffin-embedded tumor specimens from eleven patients with tongue SCCs were studied. Immunohistochemical staining for VEGFR-1,-2, and -3 was performed on the tumor cells, stromal fibroblasts and tumor-associated macrophages of the specimens. The expression of all 3 receptors was detected in the tumor cells themselves of the biopsy specimens. All 3 receptors were also expressed on stromal cells, except that VEGFR-2 was not expressed in stromal fibroblasts. In radical excision specimens, the staining intensity for VEGFR-1, -2 in the tumor cells and VEGFR-1,-3 in the tumor-associated macrophages was significantly lower than that in the biopsy specimens (P < 0.05). By using the general marker of fibroblast and macrophage, 5B5 and CD68, respectively, we performed double immunofluorescence staining for 5B5 and each VEGFR in the stromal fibroblasts and for CD68 and each VEGFR in the tumor-associated macrophages of the radical excision specimens. We used 4 cases of fibroma and 4 cases of chronic inflammation tissue as the controls. It was found that only each marker was expressed in the control group, however, 5B5/VEGFR-1 and 5B5/VEGFR-3 in the stromal fibroblasts, and CD68/VEGFR-1 and CD68/VEGFR-3 in the tumor-associated macrophages were double stained in the radical excision specimens. Although our study used small number of specimens, the results of our study showed that in tongue SCC, in association with the angiogenesis, the stromal cells showed the activated phenotype and this was different from the nonmalignant stromal cells.

• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2003년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.141-141
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• 2003

Ras expression has been suggested as a marker for tumor aggressiveness of breast cancer, including the degrees of invasion and tumor recurrence. We previously showed that p38 MAPK is a key signaling molecule differentially regulated by H-ras and N-ras, leading to H-ras-specific cell invasive and migrative phenotypes in human breast epithelial cells (Cancer Res.: 63, 5454-5461, 2003).(omitted)

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2-2
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• pp.170.2-170.2
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• 2003

Ras expression has been suggested as a marker for tumor aggressiveness of breast cancer, including the degrees of invasion and tumor recurrence. We previously showed that p38 MAPK is a key signaling molecule differentially regulated by H-ras and N-ras, leading to H-ras-specific cell invasive and migrative phenotypes in human breast epithelial cells (Cancer Res: 63, 5454-5461, 2003). In this study, we further investigated the role of p38 MARK pathway in the induction of metastatic potential in MCF10A cells as a "gain of function" study. (omitted)

• 핵의학기술
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.185-188
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• 2009

목적 : 건진센터 종양 검사가 정상범위 내에서 재검기준이 명확히 설정되어 있지 않아 검사자마다 각자의 재검기준에 따라 재검을 시행함에 따라 재검상의 편차가 크고 일괄적이지 못했다. 이를 개선하기 위해 정상치이하값에서의 재검기준을 마련하고 정상치이하인 값에서 trend 결과를 관리할 수 있는 본원 OCS QC (order communication system quality control)프로그램을 이용하여 건진 센터 종양 검사의 결과보고오류에 개선을 하고자 한다. 대상 및 방법 : 2009년 2월부터 3월까지 본원 건진 센터에서 종양 검사(AFP, CEA, CA19-9, CA125, PSA)를 실시한 환자들을 대상으로 하였다. 우선 각 검사의 정상범위에서 Inter assay CV%를 구하여 screening 기준 값을 설정하였다. OCS QC program에 진료과, 대상 검사종목, screening 기준 값을 입력하여 기준 값에 벗어난 결과는 색깔에 반전을 주었다. 1차로 5가지종양 검사를 전 결과대비 ${\pm}$ 30% 기준을 벗어난 screening 건수를 구하였고 2차로 각각의 종양 검사에 대해 전 결과 대비 AFP는 ${\pm}$ 60%, CEA와 CA19-9는 ${\pm}$50%, CA125와 PSA는 ${\pm}$40%로 기준 값을 상향조정하여 screening 건수를 구하였으며 정상치 이하에서의 재검기준도 설정하여 비교하였다. 결과 : 1차 screening 건수 백분율은 30~40%의 결과를 얻었고, 2차 screening 건수 백분율은 AFP 26.1%, CEA 18.9%, CA19-9 17.3%, CA-125 18.7%, PSA 21.0%로 평균 20%의 screening 백분율을 얻었다. 정상치 이하에서의 재검기준은 AFP 5.0이하$\leftrightarrow$10.0이상, CEA 1.0이하$\leftrightarrow$3.0이상, 2.0이하$\leftrightarrow$4.0이상, CA19-9와 CA-125 10.0이하$\leftrightarrow$30.0이상, PSA 1.0이하$\leftrightarrow$2.0이상으로 정하였으며 평균 20.4%의 screening 백분율에 재검기준을 적용시켜 실제 재검사 건수를 얻었다. 2달 동안 재검사 건수는 AFP 0건, CEA 15건, CA19-9 3건, CA-125 2건, PSA 5건이었다. 결론 : OCS QC 프로그램을 이용하여 시스템적인 재검기준을 마련함으로 검사자간 재검 실시 편차의 감소가 있었고 정상치 이하 값에서 결과보고오류에 대해 개선이 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.3437-3442
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• 2013

The high incidence of gastric cancer and consequent mortality pose severe threats to human health. Early screening, diagnosis and treatment are the key to improve the prognosis of the patients with gastric cancer. Gastroscopy with biopsy is an efficient method for the diagnosis of early gastric cancer, but the associated discomfort and high cost make it difficult to be a routine method for screening gastric cancer. Serum tumor marker assay is a simple and practical method for detection of gastric cancer, but it is limited by poor sensitivity and specificity. Therefore, people have been looking for novel serum markers of gastric cancer in recent years. Here we review the novel serum tumor markers of gastric cancer and their diagnostic significance, focusing on the discoveries from serum proteomics analyses and epigenetics researches.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.301-304
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• 2012

Objective: To explore the associations of serum tumor associated material (TAM) with other common tumor markers like carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125), carbohydrate antigen19-9 (CA19-9) and its clinical application in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Methods: A total of 87 patients were enrolled into this study, all with histologically or cytologically confirmed NSCLC. With the method of chemical colorimetry, the level of TAM was determined and compared, while chemiluminescence was used to measure the levels of common tumor markers. Results: The level of TAM decreased after chemotherapy compared with before chemotherapy when CT or MRI scans showed disease control. Furthermore, it increased when disease progessed and there was no statistically significant difference in monitoring of TAM and common tumor markers (P>0.05). Conclusions: Detecting TAM in NSCLC patients has a higher sensitivity and specificity, so it can be used as an indicator for clinical monitoring of lung cancer chemotherapy.