Circular Noncoding RNA hsa_circ_0003570 as a Prognostic Biomarker for Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Se Young Jang, Gyeonghwa Kim, Won Young Tak, Young Oh Kweon, Yu Rim Lee, Young Seok Han, Ja Ryung Han, Jung Gil Park, Min Kyu Kang, Hye Won Lee, Won Kee Lee, Soo Young Park, Keun Hur

“…Low hsa_circ_0003570 expression was more common in tumors larger than 5 cm (odds ratio (OR), 6.369; 95% confidence interval (CI), 2.725–14.706; <i>p</i> < 0.001), vessel invasion (OR, 5.128; 95% CI, 2.288–11.494; <i>p</i> < 0.001); advanced tumor-node metastasis stage (III/IV; OR, 4.082; 95% CI, 1.866–8.929; <i>p</i> < 0.001); higher Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage (B/C; OR, 3.215; 95% CI, 1.475–6.993; <i>p</i> = 0.003); and higher AFP (>200 ng/mL; OR, 2.475; 95% CI, 1.159–5.291; <i>p</i> = 0.018). …”
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Association of Low Serum 25OHD Levels with Abnormal Bone Microarchitecture in Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer by Federico Hawkins Carranza, Sonsoles Guadalix Iglesias, María Luisa De Mingo Dominguez, Gonzalo Allo Miguel, Cristina Martín-Arriscado Arroba, Begoña López Alvares, Guillermo Martínez Diaz-Guerra

“…We found low TBS in patients with PTC and long-term follow-up associated with low serum 25OHD levels, not associated with cancer stage, or accumulative iodine radioactive dose. …”
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Health-related quality of life and psychological distress among cancer survivors in a middle-income country by Subramaniam, Shridevi, Kong, Yek Ching, Chinna, Karuthan, Kimman, Merel, Ho, Yan Zheng, Saat, Nadiah, Malik, Rozita Abdul, Mohd Taib, Nur Aishah, Abdullah, Matin Mellor, Lim, Gerard Chin Chye, Tamin, Nor Saleha Ibrahim, Woo, Yin Ling, Chang, Kian Meng, Goh, Pik Pin, Yip, Cheng Har, Bhoo-Pathy, Nirmala

“…The significant predictors of psychological distress were cancer stage and hospital type. Conclusion: Cancer survivors in this middle-income setting have persistently impaired HRQoL and high levels of psychological distress. …”

Experience of pemetrexed in maintenance therapy for metastatic lung adenocarcinoma by L. Yu. Vladimirova, A. E. Storozhakova, E. A. Kalabanova, P. N. Meshcheryakov, S. V. Oskin, S. N. Kabanov, N. Yu. Samaneva, Ya. V. Svetitskaya, A. V. Tishina

“…In 80–90%, its morphological type is nonsmall cell lung cancer. Stage IV primary advanced lung cancer is diagnosed in 41% of patients. …”
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Demographic, health, and prognostic characteristics of Australians with liver cancer: a cohort study of linked data in New South Wales for informing cancer control by David Roder, David Banham, Jacob George, Shelley Rushton, Tracey O’Brien

“…Also, odds of liver cancer were higher in more remote regions outside major cities, and in males, with higher odds of more advanced cancer stages (degrees of spread) at diagnosis in more remote regions. …”
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Use of algorithms for identifying patients in a German claims database: learnings from a lung cancer case by Sina Neugebauer, Frank Griesinger, Sabine Dippel, Stephanie Heidenreich, Nina Gruber, Detlef Chruscz, Sebastian Lempfert, Peter Kaskel

“…Results The analysis shows that neither the cancer type nor the cancer stage can be unambiguously described by the ICD-10 coding. …”
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Predicting venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk in cancer patients using machine learning by Samir Khan Townsley, Debraj Basu, Jayneel Vora, Ted Wun, Chen‐Nee Chuah, Prabhu R. V. Shankar

“…We additionally found cancer stage information to be a useful predictor after all performed feature selection processes despite not being used in existing score‐based approaches. …”
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Oral Cancer Pain Includes Thermal Allodynia That May Be Attenuated by Chronic Alcohol Consumption by Cara B. Gonzales, Jorge J. De La Chapa, Amol M. Patwardhan, Kenneth M. Hargreaves

“…Covariant analysis examined variables such as tobacco and alcohol consumption, ethnicity, gender, and cancer stage. Results: We determined that OSCC secretes factors that stimulate both the Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin type 1 channel (TRPA1; noxious cold sensor) and the Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid type 1 channel (TRPV1; noxious heat sensor) in vitro and that OSCC-secreted factors sensitize TRPV1 nociceptors in vivo. …”
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Screening History and 7-Year Survival in 32,099 Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Cohort Study by Hsiao BY, Chiang CJ, Yang YW, Lin LJ, Hsu TH, Lee WC

“…The adjusted hazard ratios for FIT-negative patients were approximately 2.0, decreased rapidly to 1.6, and stabilized after the 9th time-to-diagnosis month.Conclusion: In colorectal cancer patients, screening history prior to diagnosis is an independent prognostic factor, regardless of cancer stage or other variables. This study recommends that physicians take screening history into account during diagnosis to optimize follow-up and management for patients at higher risk.Keywords: cancer registry, cancer screening, cohort study, colorectal cancer, prognosis…”
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Outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement in cancer survivors with prior chest radiation therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Meer Rabeel Zafar, Syed Farrukh Mustafa, Timothy W. Miller, Talal Alkhawlani, Umesh C. Sharma

“…Including an oncologist to the cardiology team who considers cancer stage in the decision-making process and applying additional preoperative scores such as frailty indices may refine the risk assessment for these patients. …”
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Survival Status and Predictors Among Women with Advanced Stage of Cervical Cancer by Teshome R, Yang I, Woldetsadik E, Girma E, Higgins M, Wells J

“…Major factors associated with survival were age, cancer stage, the presence of anemia, and waiting time for treatment.Keywords: survival status, advanced stage, cervical cancer, tikur anbessa specialized hospital, Ethiopia…”
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Elevated PDE4C level serves as a candidate diagnostic biomarker and correlates with poor survival in thyroid carcinoma by Ying Wang, Yongsheng Zhang, Yanyan Li, Jing Huang

“…The expression levels of PDE4A, PDE4B and PDE4D were down-regulated in THCA patients at different cancer stages, while the expression level of PDE4C was significantly up-regulated. …”
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Changes in the tumor oxygenation but not in the tumor volume and tumor vascularization reflect early response of breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy by Mikhail V. Pavlov, Anna P. Bavrina, Vladimir I. Plekhanov, German Yu. Golubyatnikov, Anna G. Orlova, Pavel V. Subochev, Diana A. Davydova, Ilya V. Turchin, Anna V. Maslennikova

“…Methods A total of 133 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of invasive breast cancer stage II to III admitted to NACT following definitive breast surgery were enrolled, of those 103 were included in the final analysis. …”
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Overexpression of CD73 is associated with recurrence and poor prognosis of gingivobuccal oral cancer as revealed by transcriptome and deep immune profiling of paired tumor and marg... by Ankita Chatterjee, Amrita Chaudhary, Arnab Ghosh, Pattatheyil Arun, Geetashree Mukherjee, Indu Arun, Arindam Maitra, Nidhan Biswas, Partha P. Majumder

“…CD73 expression in tumor was associated with low CD8+ and CD4+ T cells, low immune repertoire diversity, and advanced cancer stage. Discussion and conclusion High infiltration of anti‐tumor immune cells in both tumors and margins results in good prognosis, while in patients with minimal infiltration in tumors in spite of high infiltration in margins results in poor prognosis. …”
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CD44 is a prognostic biomarker and correlated with immune infiltrates in gastric cancer by Weiyan Hou, Lingwei Kong, Zhiping Hou, Hairu Ji

“…The UALCAN database showed that CD44 was independent of sex in gastric cancer but correlated with cancer stage and lymph node metastasis. Kaplan‒Meier Plotter online analysis showed that OS, PFS and PPS were prolonged in the CD44 low-expression group. …”
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Stage-Specific Survival From Esophageal Cancer in China and Implications for Control Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses by Yu He, Manuela Quaresma, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva

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Emergency resection is an independent risk factor for decreased long-term overall survival in colorectal cancer: a matched-pair analysis by Katharina Esswein, Marijana Ninkovic, Elisabeth Gasser, Lars Barenberg, Alexander Perathoner, Reinhold Kafka-Ritsch

“…These patients had higher UICC (Union internationale contre le cancer) stages than elective patients. After matching the patients for age, sex, and tumor stage, emergency patients still had higher mortality. …”
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Effectiveness of a PRECEDE-PROCEED Model-based Educational Program on Health-Related Quality of Life and Preventive Behaviors in Patients with Breast Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy by Parisa Torkan, Zahra Rahemi, Zohreh Sadat, Neda Mirbagher Ajorpaz

“…Methods: This quasi-experimental impact evaluation study was performed on 90 outpatients with breast cancer (stages I and II) undergoing chemotherapy in Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Kashan, Iran from September 2018 to December 2019. …”
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Regulatory and effector T cell subsets in tumor-draining lymph nodes of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck by Marzieh Norouzian, Fereshteh Mehdipour, Mohammad Javad Ashraf, Bijan Khademi, Abbas Ghaderi

“…Negative associations were found between the frequencies of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ and CD4+CD25+Foxp3+CD127low/− Treg cells and cancer stage (P = 0.015 and P = 0.059). Conclusion This study shed more lights on the changes in immune profile of T cells in TDLNs of HNSCC. …”
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A real-life experience of sorafenib treatment for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a retrospective analysis at Cathay General Hospital, 2007&ndash;2015 by Huang CC, Chen HY, Chang RH, Liao PA, Lien HH, Hung CS, Yang SS, Hu JT

“…Of the 67 eligible patients, 66 patients (99%) were diagnosed as Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage C and 45 (67%) were Child-Pugh A. Chronic hepatitis B virus infection was the main etiology (67%), followed by hepatitis C virus infection (12%) and alcohol liver disease (8%). …”
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