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Gastric cancer is the fifth most common malignancy worldwide. In early stages, no obvious symptoms are usually observed in gastric cancer patients, and it is especially hard to distinguish gastric cancer from benign gastric diseases, resulting in delayed diagnosis and poor prognosis. Common biomarkers of gastric cancer, such as CEA and CA19-9, are also elevated in benign diseases. There is an urgent need to develop a convenient and reliable biomarker for differentiating between gastric cancer and benign gastric diseases.
This study retrospectively analyzed the data of 126 patients, including 73 gastric cancer patients and 53 benign gastric disease patients. Patient characteristics collected for analysis included age, gender, laboratory data, and clinical staging. Unpaired t-test was used to check the difference of cholinesterase level between the gastric cancer group and the benign gastric disease group. Kruskal Wallis H test and Mann-Whitney U test were used to check the difference of cholinesterase leveeases.
This study indicated that serum cholinesterase level could be considered as a potential biomarker for differentiating between gastric cancer and benign gastric diseases.
The current study evaluated the level of serum N1-methylnicotinamide (me-NAM) in cervical cancer patients and further explored whether serum me-NAM was related to the prognosis of cervical cancer.
Fifty-eight cases of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia patients, 78 cases of cervical cancer patients, and 52 healthy women were included in the present study. Serum me-NAM concentrations were determined by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to assess me-NAM as a biomarker and Kaplan-Meier analysis was carried out to evaluate the survival rate.
Our data showed that the level of serum me-NAM in cervical cancer patients was significantly higher than that in the cervical intraepithelial neoplasia group and the healthy control group. Furthermore, the level of me-NAM in cervical cancer tissues of stage I, II, III, and IV was higher than that of those without lymph node metastasis. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) for me-NAM was higher than that of squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC Ag) and carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125) when comparing cervical cancer from CIN or healthy control. The combination of me-NAM and SCC Ag or CA125 could improve the diagnostic efficiency better than SCC Ag or CA125 alone. Compared with me-NAM low expression group, the survival rate and time of me-NAM high expression group were lower and shorter.
Altogether, elevated serum me-NAM levels contribute to the progression of cervical cancer and may be used as a marker for the prognosis of patients with cervical cancer.
Altogether, elevated serum me-NAM levels contribute to the progression of cervical cancer and may be used as a marker for the prognosis of patients with cervical cancer.
Computerized tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis is the standard imaging modality to diagnose intra-abdominal injury (IAI). Clinicians must weigh the risk-benefit of CT compared with the degree of clinical suspicion for an IAI. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), Streck, and blunt abdominal trauma in children (BATiC) prediction rules have been published to help guide evaluation of these patients. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network uses history and physical examination findings, whereas Streck and BATiC use examination plus laboratory and imaging findings. At the time of the study, there was not a protocol that was more routinely sited. Our goal was to compare these different prediction rules.
This was a retrospective electronic chart review of all children younger than 18 years presenting for either level 1 or 2 trauma activations at our pediatric emergency department (ED) between June 1, 2015, to June 30, 2017. Charts were manually reviewed for a mechanism con of excluding IAI for low-risk patients. When laboratory tests were obtained, the Streck rule performed well. Overall, the results are similar to the past individual studies done on each individual rule. History and physical examination findings are of high importance in pediatric trauma. This study supports limited imaging when no abnormal findings are present in children with blunt torso trauma. This is the only study found in the literature that has compared 3 different prediction rules.
Lenvatinib in combination with pembrolizumab or everolimus has activity against advanced renal cell carcinoma. The efficacy of these regimens as compared with that of sunitinib is unclear.
In this phase 3 trial, we randomly assigned (in a 111 ratio) patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma and no previous systemic therapy to receive lenvatinib (20 mg orally once daily) plus pembrolizumab (200 mg intravenously once every 3 weeks), lenvatinib (18 mg orally once daily) plus everolimus (5 mg orally once daily), or sunitinib (50 mg orally once daily, alternating 4 weeks receiving treatment and 2 weeks without treatment). The primary end point was progression-free survival, as assessed by an independent review committee in accordance with Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, version 1.1. Overall survival and safety were also evaluated.
A total of 1069 patients were randomly assigned to receive lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab (355 patients), lenvatinib plus everolimus (357), or sunitinib (357). Progrpase levels.
Lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab was associated with significantly longer progression-free survival and overall survival than sunitinib. (Funded by Eisai and Merck Sharp and Dohme; CLEAR ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02811861.).
Lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab was associated with significantly longer progression-free survival and overall survival than sunitinib. (Funded by Eisai and Merck Sharp and Dohme; CLEAR ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02811861.).Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) of the breast is a very common disease. Despite its prevalence, these tumors are relatively understudied. One reason for this is a relative lack of models for ILC. This challenge was addressed by Brisken and colleagues through development of an intraductal injection-based xenograft system for the study of ERα+ breast cancers, including both ILC and more common invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC; Sflomos et al, 2016). In this issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, the same group have applied intraductal injection-based xenografts to identify novel tumor cell-specific transcriptional signatures in ILC (Sflomos et al, 2021). In doing so they found overexpression of lysyl oxidase-like 1 (LOXL1) to be both responsible for the frequently seen stiff collagen-rich extracellular matrix of lobular breast cancer and essential for their robust growth and metastatic dissemination in vivo, thereby identifying a novel therapeutic target.SMA type 1 is the most severe type, characterized by early onset at less then 6 months of age, and rapid progression resulting in permanent assisted ventilation before 2 years of life. Supportive care was the only treatment until the approval of nusinersen, an antisense oligonucleotide drug that increases functional SMN protein levels. We present a case of successful weaning from permanent ventilation via tracheostomy with nusinersen in an infant who had been diagnosed with SMA type 1 at the age of one month and had become ventilator-dependent from the age of 3 months.
In recent years, studies have revealed that cognition may be impaired by glucose metabolism disorder. Meanwhile, physical activity has been demonstrated to maintain blood glucose. This meta-analysis was conducted to assess the effect of physical activity on cognition in patients with diabetes and provide evidence for the treatment of cognition impairment among them.
We searched studies published in five databases from 1 January 1984 to 29 August 2020. A random-effect or fixed-effect meta-analysis was used to estimate the pooled effect of physical activity on the change of cognition throughout intervention duration and post-intervention cognition scores by standardized mean difference (SMD) and its 95% confidence interval (CI). We used funnel plots to evaluate the publication bias, I
statistic to evaluate the heterogeneity and did subgroup analysis stratified by sample size and follow-up time.
Five eligible studies involving 2581 patients with diabetes were included. The pooled effect of physical activity on cognition improvement in patients with diabetes was significant (SMD=0.98, 95% CI 0.34-1.62), while the effect on post-intervention cognition scores was not significant (SMD=0.35, 95% CI -0.04-0.73). In the subgroup analysis, the pooled effect was significantly higher in studies of follow-up time less than 1 year (SMD=2.14, 95% CI 1.63-2.64), while observing no significant effect in studies of follow-up time over 1 year (SMD=0.10, 95% CI -0.11-0.32).
Physical activity is beneficial to improving cognition in patients with diabetes. However, the long-term effect needs to be explored in future studies.
Physical activity is beneficial to improving cognition in patients with diabetes. However, the long-term effect needs to be explored in future studies.
Major depressive episodes in adolescent females have increased during the past decade, placing them at risk to engage in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, unsafe thoughts, suicidal ideation, and lethal actions. Mindfulness, a tool for stress management, is underutilized.
Mindful BALANCE (Breathe Act Learn About 'Now' Care Everyday), a group therapy pilot program introduced a variety of mindfulness activities. MK0752 The extended mindfulness followed the Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE), a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills Building (CBSB) Healthy Lifestyle program. The pilot program was offered in an outpatient mental health department for 7 weeks.
Mindful BALANCE is a feasible program as an adjunct to individualized psychotherapy. Six subjects engaged without absence with a completion rate of 83%. Six subjects had pre- and post-scores for depression and anxiety decrease. Mindfulness practice was reported to decrease the perception of stress.
Mindful BALANCE decreased perceived depression and anxiety symptoms while positively impacting healthy activities in adolescent females. Further research is necessary to readdress feasibility and extended mindfulness components in improving global well-being and diminishing suicide risk.
Mindful BALANCE decreased perceived depression and anxiety symptoms while positively impacting healthy activities in adolescent females. Further research is necessary to readdress feasibility and extended mindfulness components in improving global well-being and diminishing suicide risk.Cognitive biases for encoding spatial information (orientation strategies) in relation to self (egocentric) or landmarks (allocentric) differ between species or populations according to the habitats they occupy. Whether biases in orientation strategy determine early habitat selection or if individuals adapt their biases following experience is unknown. We determined orientation strategies of pheasants, Phasianus colchicus, using a dual-strategy maze with an allocentric probe trial, before releasing them (n = 20) into a novel landscape, where we monitored their movement and habitat selection. In general, pheasants selected for woodland over non-woodland habitat, but allocentric-biased individuals exhibited weaker avoidance of non-woodland habitat, where we expected allocentric navigation to be more effective. Sex did not influence selection but was associated with speed and directional persistence in non-woodland habitat. Our results suggest that an individual's habitat selection is associated with inherent cognitive bias in early life, but it is not yet clear what advantages this may offer.
