• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권22호
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• pp.9949-9953
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• 2014

Objective: To evaluate the long term results among patients with soft tissue sarcoma of the thoracic wall. Materials and Methods: Twenty-six patients who were treated with pre-or postoperative radiotherapy between December 1980-December 2007, with a diagnosis of soft tissue sarcoma of the thoracic wall were retrospectively evaluated. Results: The median age was 44 years (14-85 years) and 15 of them were male. A total of 50% of patients were grade 3. The most common histologic type of tumor was undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (26.9%). Tumor size varied between 2-25 cm (median 6.5 cm). Seventeen of the cases had marginal and 9 had wide local resection. Four cases received preoperative radiotherapy and 22 postoperative radiotherapy. Six of the patients with large and high grade tumors received chemotherapy. Median follow-up time was 82 months (9-309 months). Local recurrence and metastasis was detected in 34.6% and 42.3% of patients, respectively. Five-year local control (LC), disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival (OS), and disease-specific survival (DSS) were 62%, 38%, 69%, and 76% respectively. On univariate analysis, the patients with positive surgical margins had a markedly lower 5-year LC rate than patients with negative surgical margin, but the difference was not significant (43% vs 78%, p=0.1). Five-year DFS (66% vs 17%) and DSS (92% vs 60%) rates were significantly worse for the patients who had high grade tumors (p=0.01, p=0.008 respectively). Conclusions: Tumor grade and surgical margin are essential parameters for determining the prognosis of thoracic wall soft tissue sarcoma both in our series and the literature.

• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.60-63
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• 2001

Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical and the histopathological characteristics of mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas in the stomach. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 22 patients who had been treated at Samsung Medical Center from Jan. 1995 to Sep. 2000 and who had been pathologically proven to have a MALT lymphoma. The factors we analyzed were operative procedure, tumor stage, and histopathological characteristics. Results: Of 3658 patients with a gastric malignancy, 22 patients proved to have a MALT lymphoma ($0.6\%$). There were 7 men and 15 women whose ages ranged from 25 years to 70 years (mean, 48.8 years). Forteen cases were located in the antrum, 4 ($18\%$) in the body and 4 ($18\%$) in the fundus or the high body. Nineteen of these patients were managed with total gastrectomy and splenectomy and 3 with radical subtotal gastrectomy. Histopathologically the tumor was limited to the mucosa in 3 patients ($1.36\%$), to the submucosa in 13 ($59.1\%$) and extended to the muscularis propria in 6 ($27.3\%$). Lymph node involvement was seen in 12 patients ($54.6\%$). There was no splenic or hepatic involvement. Bone marrow involvement was not seen in any patients. H. pylori was identified in 11 patients (50$\%$). During the mean follow-up period of 32.7 months, there were no reports of tumor recurrence or death. Conclusion: MALT lymphomas rarely disseminate by the time of diagnosis and rarely involve the bone marrow. Lymph node involvement is relatively high and a total gastrectomy is effective in managing patients with a MALT lymphoma.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.3667-3671
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• 2015

Invasion and metastasis is the major cause of tumor recurrence, difficulty for cure and low survival rate. Excavating key transcription factors, which can regulate tumor invasion and metastasis, are crucial to the development of therapeutic strategies for cancers. PU.1 is a master hematopoietic transcription factor and a vital regulator in life. Here, we report that, compared to adjacent non-cancerous tissues, expression of PU.1 mRNA in metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but not primary HCC, was significantly down-regulated. In addition, levels of PU.1 mRNA in metastatic hepatoma cell lines MHCC97L and MHCC97H were much lower than in non-metastatic Hep3B cells. Transwell invasion assays after PU.1 siRNA transfection showed that the invasion of hepatoma cell lines was increased markedly by PU.1 knockdown. Oppositely, overexpression of PU.1 suppressed the invasion of these cells. However, knockdown and overexpression of PU.1 did not influence proliferation. Finally, we tried to explore the potential mechanism of PU.1 suppressing hepatoma cell invasion. ChIP-qPCR analysis showed that PU.1 exhibited a high binding capacity with miR-615-5p promoter sequence. Overexpression of PU.1 caused a dramatic increase of pri-, pre- and mature miR-615-5p, as well as a marked decrease of miR-615-5p target gene IGF2. These data indicate that PU.1 inhibits invasion of human HCC through promoting miR-615-5p and suppressing IGF2. These findings improve our understanding of PU.1 regulatory roles and provided a potential target for metastatic HCC diagnosis and therapy.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권17호
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• pp.7351-7355
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• 2014

Background: Laryngeal carcinogenesis is a multifactorial process that has not been fully elucidated. Despite extensive research, reliable markers with diagnostic and prognostic value are still lacking. It was recently reported that an elevated preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) may correlate with an increased risk of recurrence, tumor aggressiveness and poorer prognosis in various malignancies. The aim of this study was to examine whether NLR could be used as an inflammatory marker to differentiate laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) patients from benign laryngeal lesion (BLL) and precancerous laryngeal lesion (PLL) patients. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was performed on 209 patients admitted to a tertiary referral center with laryngeal lesions and undergoing biopsies to establish their histopathological diagnosis. We reviewed the patient files for their clinical, histopathological and laboratory data. The patients were divided into three groups according to their histopathological findings, as BLL, PLL and LSCC groups. The patients in the PLL group were also divided into three subgroups as mild, moderate and severe dysplasia/carcinoma in situ (CIS) subgroups. The groups were compared for NLR and the other laboratory data. Results: The mean NLRs of the BLL, PLL and the LSCC groups were $2.12{\pm}0.86$, $2.32{\pm}0.68$ and $3.46{\pm}1.51$, respectively, and the difference was statistically significant (p=0.001). The mean NLRs of the patients with PLL and LSCC were significantly higher than the patients with BLL (p=0.031 and p=0.001, respectively). The mean NLRs were similar among mild dysplasia, moderate dysplasia and severe dysplasia / CIS groups (p>0.05). Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first study investigating NLR in BLL, PLL and LSCC. NLR is an inexpensive, reproducible and widely available blood test, and could be a useful inflammatory marker to differentiate LSCC from BLL and PLL.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권18호
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• pp.7757-7761
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• 2014

Aim: To report long term outcomes of laser conization for high grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in Thai women. Materials and Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted in patients undergoing laser conization due to abnormal cervical cytology suggesting neoplasia during 1989 to 1994 and having follow-up data until December 2010. Conization was performed under colposcopy using a 0.5-mm $CO_2$ laser beam with power density of $18,000-20,000watts/cm^2$, and the surgical base was vaporized using a low power defocused beam. The follow-up protocol included cervical cytology and colposcopy. Long term outcome measures were failure rate (persistence and recurrence), post-conization status of transformation zone, and obstetric outcomes. Results: Of 104 patients undergoing conization, 71 had therapeutic conization for high grade CIN and were followed up for a median time of 115 (range 12-260) months. There was one case of persistent and one of recurrent disease comprising a failure rate of 2.8%. The post treatment transformation zone was well visualized in 68.3% of 63 patients with an intact uterus. Sixteen patients achieved 25 pregnancies; none had second trimester miscarriage. The obstetric outcomes were unremarkable. Conclusions: Laser conization under colposcopic visualization for the treatment of high grade CIN in Thai women has a low failure rate of 2.8%. The post-conization transformation zone could not be evaluated completely in approximately 30% of cases; therefore the follow-up protocol should include both cytology and colposcopy. Obstetric outcomes are not adversely affected by this therapeutic procedure.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권13호
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• pp.5541-5547
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• 2015

Background: The role of surgical resection for patients with single large (${\geq}5cm$) and/or multinodular (${\geq}2$) hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is still controversial. This systematic review was performed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of resection for patients with single large and/or multinodular HCC. Materials and Methods: Databases (the PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane databases) were systematically searched to identify relevant studies exploring the safety and efficacy of resection for single large and/or multinodular HCC, published between January 2000 and December 2014. Perioperative morbidity and mortality, overall survival, and disease-free survival of the resection group were calculated. In addition, these outcome variables were also calculated for the control group in the included studies. Results: One randomized controlled trial and 42 nonrandomized studies involving 9,580 patients were eligible for analysis. Eight (1,594 patients) of the 43 studies also reported the outcomes of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). Although 51.4% of patients featured cirrhosis, 90.7% of them demonstrated Child-Pugh A liver function in the resection group. The median rates of morbidity (24.5%) and mortality (2.5%) after resection were significantly higher than that of TACE (11.0%, P<0.001; 1.9%, P<0.001). However, patients who underwent resection had significantly higher median one-, three-, and five-year overall survival (76.1%, 51.7%, and 37.4%) than those who underwent TACE (68.3%, 31.5%, and 17.5%, all P<0.001). The median 1-, 3-, and 5-year DFS rates after resection were 58.3%, 34.6%, and 24.0%, respectively. Conclusions: Although tumor recurrence after resection for patients with single large and/ or multinodular HCC continues to be a major problem, resection should be considered as a strategy to achieve long-term survival.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.565-570
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• 2016

방사성 요오드($^{131}I$) 치료는 분화성 갑상선암 환자에서 재발을 감소시키고 생존률을 증가시키나, 환자에서 방출되는 방사능으로 인하여 피폭을 야기시킬 수 있으므로 환자로부터 발생되는 방사선량률을 측정하는 것이 방사선안전관리 측면에서 중요하다. 방사성 요오드($^{131}I$) 치료시 널리 사용되는 측정기 중 전리함과 GM계수관으로 측정된 방사선량률의 감도와 측정효율을 구하였다. 방사성 요오드($^{131}I$)를 150mCi 경구투여 받은 분화성 갑상선암 환자의 상복부로부터 1 m거리에서 경과 시간에 따라 방사선량률을 측정하였다. 시간에 따른 변화를 직접적으로 비교한 결과, 고선량률에서의 감도와 측정효율은 GM계수관보다 전리함이 높게 나타났고, 통계적으로 유의하였다(p<0.05). 저선량률에서의 감도와 측정효율은 GM계수관보다 전리함이 낮게 나타났지만 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 나타내지 않았다(p>0.05). 방사성 요오드($^{131}I$) 치료시에 검 교정이 완료된 전리함과 GM계수관으로 정확하고 신속한 방사선량률을 측정하여 환자에게 설명함으로써 방사성 요오드 치료 후 퇴원하는 환자에게 환자가족 또는 주변 사람들에게 미칠 수 있는 방사선피폭을 예측하고, 불필요한 예단을 줄여줄 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.197-212
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• 2014

Osteosarcoma (OS) is one of the most common malignant primary bone tumors and NF-${\kappa}B$ appears to play a causative role, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. OS is one of the pleomorphic, highly metastasized and invasive neoplasm which is capable to generate osteoid, osteoclast and osteoblast matrix. Its high incidence has been reported in adolescent and children. Cell signal cascade is the pivotal functional mechanism acquired during the differentiation, proliferation, growth and survival of the cells in neoplasm including OS. The major limitation to the success of chemotherapy in OS is the development of multidrug resistance (MDR). Answers to all such queries might come from the knock-in experiments in which the combined approach of miRNAs with NF-${\kappa}B$ pathway is put into use. Abnormal miRNAs can modulate several epigenetical switching as a hallmark of number of diseases via different cell signaling. Studies on miRNAs have opened up the new avenues for both the diagnosis and treatment of cancers including OS. Collectively, through the present study an attempt has been made to establish a new systematic approach for the investigation of microRNAs, bio-physiological factors and their target pairs with NF-${\kappa}B$ to ameliorate oncogenesis with the "bridge between miRNAs and NF-${\kappa}B$". The application of NF-${\kappa}B$ inhibitors in combination with miRNAs is expected to result in a more efficient killing of the cancer stem cells and a slower or less likely recurrence of cancer.

• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.246-255
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• 2015

Purpose: The importance of Helicobacter pylori eradication after endoscopic resection (ER) of gastric neoplasms remains controversial. In this study, we clarified the importance of H. pylori eradication for metachronous lesions after ER. Materials and Methods: This study included 3,882 patients with gastric neoplasms who underwent ER. We included patients infected with H. pylori who received eradication therapy. Among them, 34 patients with metachronous lesions after ER and 102 age- and sex-matched patients (nonmetachronous group) were enrolled. Background mucosal pathologies such as atrophy and intestinal metaplasia (IM) were evaluated endoscopically. The expression levels of CDX1, CDX2, Sonic hedgehog (SHH), and SOX2 were evaluated based on H. pylori eradication and the development of metachronous lesions. Results: The eradication failure rate was higher in the metachronous group than in the nonmetachronous group (P=0.036). Open-type atrophy (P=0.003) and moderate-to-severe IM (P=0.001) occurred more frequently in the metachronous group. In patients with an initial diagnosis of dysplasia, the eradication failure rate was higher in the metachronous group than in the nonmetachronous group (P=0.002). In addition, open-type atrophy was more frequent in the metachronous group (P=0.047). In patients with an initial diagnosis of carcinoma, moderate-to-severe IM occurred more frequently in the metachronous group (P=0.003); however, the eradication failure rate was not significantly different between the two groups. SHH and SOX2 expression was increased, and CDX2 expression was decreased in the nonmetachronous group after eradication (P<0.05). Conclusions: Open-type atrophy, moderate-to-severe IM, and H. pylori eradication failure were significantly associated with metachronous lesions. However, eradication failure was significantly associated with dysplasia, but not carcinoma, in the metachronous group. Thus, H. pylori eradication may play an important role in preventing metachronous lesions after ER for precancerous lesions before carcinomatous transformation.

• 대한골관절종양학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.44-51
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• 2009

목적: 전이성 병적 골절 또는 병적 임박 골절로 진단받고 수술을 시행한 환자의 결과를 분석하고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 2004년 1월부터 2007년 12월까지 전이성 병적 골절 또는 병적 임박 골절로 진단받고 수술적 치료를 시행한 18환자, 19예를 대상으로 하였다. 남자가 6예 여자가 12예였으며 평균 나이는 65.1세였다. 평균 추시 기간은 15.2개월이였다. 초기 진단으로 병적 골절이 14예, 병적 임박 골절이 5예였다. 기능적 평가는 추시 중에 MSTS 점수를 측정하였으며 주기적인 방사선 촬영을 통해 방사선학적 결과를 분석하였으며 수술 후 합병증 유 무를 분석하였다. 결과: 원발암은 다발성 골수종 6예, 신 세포암 4예, 담관암 2예, 대장암 2예, 유방암 2예 및 평활근 육종이 2예였다. 전이 병소는 대퇴골이 10예, 쇄골 4예, 상완골 2예, 경골 2예, 요골 1예였다. 수술 방법으로 소파술, 시멘트 충전술, 내고정술 및 관절 성형술을 시행하였다. 평균 MSTS 점수는 15.9였다. 수술 후 합병증으로는 감염이 1예, 국소 재발이 1예, 고정물의 이완이 1예 있었다. 최종 추시 시 유병 상태 10명, 사망 8명이었다. 결론: 전이성 병적 골절 및 병적 임박 골절의 수술적 치료는 하지의 경우 조기 보행을 가능하게 하고 상지의 기능 숙달도에 만족할 만할 결과를 보이며, 이환 부의의 통증 조절과 환자의 정서적 만족도에 매우 우수한 결과를 보였다. 환자의 남은 여생 삶의 질 향상에 필요한 술식이라 사료된다.