Influence of tumor location on short- and long-term outcomes after laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer: a propensity score matched cohort study
This study aimed to evaluate the short- and long-term outcomes after laparoscopic resection for low rectal cancer (LRC) compared with mid/high rectal cancer (M/HRC).BMC Cancer 2020 20:761Safety and efficacy of sintilimab combined with oxaliplatin/capecitabine as first-line treatment in patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma in a phase Ib clinical trial
Sintilimab blocks the interaction between programmed death-1 (PD-1) and its ligands. The safety and efficacy of sintilimab combined with oxaliplatin/capecitabine (CapeOx) as first-line treatment were evaluated...BMC Cancer 2020 20:760Gender differences in stage at diagnosis and preoperative radiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer
Few studies have examined gender differences in the clinical management of rectal cancer. We examine differences in stage at diagnosis and preoperative radiotherapy in rectal cancer patients.BMC Cancer 2020 20:759Quality of life and psychological distress during cancer: a prospective observational study involving young breast cancer female patients
Despite the possible traumatic significance of cancer and of the incidence, prevalence, and survival of young women with breast cancer, these patients are underrepresented in multidimensional research. In the ...BMC Cancer 2020 20:758Impact on quality of life 3 years after diagnosis of prostate cancer patients below 75 at diagnosis: an observational case-control study
Prostate cancer patients are known to suffer from poor sexual and urinary long-term side-effects following treatment, potentially impacting quality of life. The purpose of our study was to compare health-relat...BMC Cancer 2020 20:757Tumor expression of miR-448 is a prognostic marker in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Prognosis is poor for patients with malignant progression such as distant metastasis of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Evidence indicates that miR-448 promotes the proliferation and inhibits apoptosis of...BMC Cancer 2020 20:756Adjuvant chemotherapy in average-risk adult medulloblastoma patients improves survival: a long term study
Medulloblastoma is extremely rare in adults. The role of chemotherapy for average-risk adult patients remains controversial. Surgery and radiotherapy provide a significant disease control and a good prognosis,...BMC Cancer 2020 20:755When to call it off: defining transplant candidacy limits in liver donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an acceptable treatment option for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Traditional transplant criteria aim at best utilization of donor organs with low risk of post tra...BMC Cancer 2020 20:754Increasing of malignancy of breast cancer cells after cryopreservation: molecular detection and activation of angiogenesis after CAM-xenotransplantation
Ovarian tissue cryopreservation has a wide range of cancerous indications. Avoiding relapse becomes a specific concern that clinicians frequently encounter. The data about the comparative viability of cancer c...BMC Cancer 2020 20:753Premature mortality of gastrointestinal cancer in Iran: trends and projections 2001–2030
The present study was conducted to determine the trend and projection of premature mortality from gastrointestinal cancers (GI cancers) at national and subnational levels in Iran.BMC Cancer 2020 20:752Breast cancer diagnosis is associated with relative left ventricular hypertrophy and elevated endothelin-1 signaling
The survival rates of women with breast cancer have improved significantly over the last four decades due to advances in breast cancer early diagnosis and therapy. However, breast cancer survivors have an incr...BMC Cancer 2020 20:751Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, not platelet to lymphocyte or lymphocyte to monocyte ratio, is predictive of patient survival after resection of early-stage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
NLR, PLR, and LMR have been associated with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) survival. Prognostic value and optimal cutpoints were evaluated to identify underlying significance in surgical PDAC patients.BMC Cancer 2020 20:750LINC00992 contributes to the oncogenic phenotypes in prostate cancer via targeting miR-3935 and augmenting GOLM1 expression
Accumulating evidence has revealed the critical role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in cellular processes during tumor progression. As documented in cancer-related literatures, LINC00992 expression is assoc...BMC Cancer 2020 20:749Precision medicine phase II study evaluating the efficacy of a double immunotherapy by durvalumab and tremelimumab combined with olaparib in patients with solid cancers and carriers of homologous recombination repair genes mutation in response or stable after olaparib treatment
Tumors with deficient homologous repair are sensitive to PARP inhibitors such as olaparib which is known to have immunogenic properties. Durvalumab (D) is a human monoclonal antibody (mAb) which inhibits bindi...BMC Cancer 2020 20:748Screening of BRCA1/2 genes mutations and copy number variations in patients with high risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC)
Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) is an autosomal dominant inherited cancer susceptibility disorder. Both BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are considered as high penetrance genes of this syndrome. The identificati...BMC Cancer 2020 20:747Prognosis of pregnancy-associated breast cancer: a meta-analysis
Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is defined as breast cancer that is diagnosed during pregnancy and/or the postpartum period. Definitions of the duration of the postpartum period have been controversi...BMC Cancer 2020 20:746Androgen Receptor mRNA levels determine the prognosis in triple-negative breast cancer patients
Anti-Androgen Receptor (AR) therapy holds promise for a subset of AR expressing triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. However, current AR assays are suboptimal in detecting the dynamic range of AR exp...BMC Cancer 2020 20:745Diagnostic accuracy of contrast-enhanced diffusion-weighted MRI for liver metastases of pancreatic cancer: towards adequate staging and follow-up of pancreatic cancer – DIA-PANC study: study protocol for an international, multicenter, diagnostic trial
At the time of surgery, approximately 10–20% of the patients with pancreatic cancer are considered unresectable because of unexpected liver metastasis, peritoneal carcinomatosis or locally advanced disease. Th...BMC Cancer 2020 20:744Immunotherapy and associated immune-related adverse events at a large UK centre: a mixed methods study
The development and rapid uptake of immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPI) has changed the outlook for patients with cancer. However, CPIs have different adverse event (AE) profiles to other systemic therapies, an...BMC Cancer 2020 20:743Prophylactic antibiotic treatment with TMP-SMX decreased the incidence of interstitial pneumonia in patients with B-cell lymphoma on chemotherapy
Several studies have reported the incidence of interstitial pneumonia (IP) among patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that are undergoing combination chemotherapy plus rituximab; however, the effective pro...BMC Cancer 2020 20:742USP18 promotes cell proliferation and suppressed apoptosis in cervical cancer cells via activating AKT signaling pathway
The deubiquitinating (DUB) enzyme ubiquitin-specific protease 18 (USP18), also known as UBP43, is an ubiquitin-specific protease linked to several human malignancies. However, USP18’s underlying function in hu...BMC Cancer 2020 20:741OncoPDSS: an evidence-based clinical decision support system for oncology pharmacotherapy at the individual level
Precision oncology pharmacotherapy relies on precise patient-specific alterations that impact drug responses. Due to rapid advances in clinical tumor sequencing, an urgent need exists for a clinical support to...BMC Cancer 2020 20:740Protocol of the VICTORIA study: personalized vitamin D supplementation for reducing or preventing fatigue and enhancing quality of life of patients with colorectal tumor - randomized intervention trial
Cancer-related fatigue represents one major cause of reduced quality of life in cancer patients and can seriously affect the physical, emotional, and cognitive functioning impeding coping with the disease. Opt...BMC Cancer 2020 20:739The oncogenic potential of a mutant TP53 gene explored in two spontaneous lung cancer mice models
Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer worldwide. A major drawback in the lung cancer treatment field is the lack of realistic mouse models that replicate the complexity of human malignancy and immune con...BMC Cancer 2020 20:738Education level as a predictor of survival in patients with multiple myeloma
Disparities in multiple myeloma (MM) prognosis based on sociodemographic factors may exist. We investigated whether education level at diagnosis influenced Chinese MM patient outcomes.BMC Cancer 2020 20:737Correction to: Permanent iodine-125 brachytherapy for patients with progressive or recurrent high-grade gliomas
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.BMC Cancer 2020 20:736The original article was published in BMC Cancer 2020 20:591A single-center, randomized, non-inferiority study evaluating seroma formation after mastectomy combined with flap fixation with or without suction drainage: protocol for the Seroma reduction and drAin fRee mAstectomy (SARA) trial
Seroma formation is a common complication after breast cancer surgery and can lead to delayed wound healing, infection, patient discomfort and repeated visits to the outpatient clinic. Mastectomy combined with...BMC Cancer 2020 20:735A prospective, single-arm, phase II clinical trial of intraoperative radiotherapy using a low-energy X-ray source for local advanced Laryngocarcinoma (ILAL): a study protocol
Laryngocarcinoma (LC), in most cases a squamous cell carcinoma, accounts for 1 ~ 5% of the incidence of all tumors. At present, laryngocarcinoma is mainly managed with the integration of surgery and radio- and...BMC Cancer 2020 20:734Does hypothyroidism increase the risk of breast cancer: evidence from a meta-analysis
At present, the relationship between hypothyroidism and the risk of breast cancer is still inconclusive. This meta-analysis was used to systematically assess the relationship between hypothyroidism and breast ...BMC Cancer 2020 20:733Prognostic value of platelet recovery degree before and after achieving minimal residual disease negative complete remission in acute myeloid leukemia patients
Risk stratification and prognosis prediction of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are largely dependent on pre-treatment information. However, post-treatment data also provides much useful information. In this retr...BMC Cancer 2020 20:732The presence of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and the ratios between different subsets serve as prognostic factors in advanced hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
Cancer cells induce the infiltration of various immune cells that are located or distributed in different sites and play multiple roles, which have recently been proposed to predict clinical outcomes. We there...BMC Cancer 2020 20:731A multicenter prospective phase II study of postoperative hypofractionated stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in the treatment of early-stage oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancers with high risk margins: the STEREO POSTOP GORTEC 2017-03 trial
Primary surgery is usually the mainstay treatment in early-stage oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancer. Typically, neck surgery is performed. Negative tumor margins are recommended (> 5 mm). If feasible, re-res...BMC Cancer 2020 20:730UGT1A1 polymorphism has a prognostic effect in patients with stage IB or II uterine cervical cancer and one or no metastatic pelvic nodes receiving irinotecan chemotherapy: a retrospective study
Uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase 1 family polypeptide A1 (UGT1A1) is a predictive biomarker for the side-effects of irinotecan chemotherapy, which reduces the volume of tumors harboring UGT1A1 polymorp...BMC Cancer 2020 20:729Prediction of relapse in stage I testicular germ cell tumor patients on surveillance: investigation of biomarkers
Better biomarkers for assessing risk of relapse in stage I testicular germ cell tumor patients are needed, to complement classical histopathological variables. We aimed to assess the prognostic value of previo...BMC Cancer 2020 20:728Clinical outcomes of immune checkpoint inhibitors for patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer: real-world data in Korea
Anti-PD1 inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer (HNC), as a result of Global Phase III trials. However, the clinical outcomes of immune checkpoint inhib...BMC Cancer 2020 20:727Smoking cessation and survival among people diagnosed with non-metastatic cancer
We aimed to estimate the effects of smoking cessation on survival among people diagnosed with cancer.BMC Cancer 2020 20:726Association of MTHFR C677T polymorphism with severity and localization of chronic atrophic gastritis patients without Helicobacter pylori infection: a case control study
Previous reports indicate that the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677C > T polymorphism plays a role in gastric cancer. However, whether it influences the development and progression of atrophic g...BMC Cancer 2020 20:725Antagonists of the serotonin receptor 5A target human breast tumor initiating cells
Breast tumor initiating cells (BTIC) are stem-like cells that initiate and sustain tumor growth, and drive disease recurrence. Identifying therapies targeting BTIC has been hindered due primarily to their scar...BMC Cancer 2020 20:724Clinical impact of PSMA PET/CT in primary prostate cancer compared to conventional nodal and distant staging: a retrospective single center study
To evaluate the impact of Gallium-68 [68Ga] labeled prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET)/X-ray computed tomography (CT) compared with conventional imaging on staging and cl...BMC Cancer 2020 20:723Sexual dysfunction and fertility-related distress in young adults with cancer over 5 years following diagnosis: study protocol of the Fex-Can Cohort study
There is a lack of firm knowledge regarding sexual problems and fertility-related distress in young adults following a diagnosis with cancer. Establishing such understanding is essential to identify patients i...BMC Cancer 2020 20:722Technology-enabled activation of skin cancer screening for hematopoietic cell transplantation survivors and their primary care providers (TEACH)
Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is a curative option for a growing number of patients with hematologic diseases and malignancies. However, HCT-related factors, such as total body irradiation used for ...BMC Cancer 2020 20:721Identification of a protein signature for predicting overall survival of hepatocellular carcinoma: a study based on data mining
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is the fifth most common cancer in the world and the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths. Over 500,000 new HCC cases are diagnosed each year. Combining advanced ge...BMC Cancer 2020 20:720Risk of second primary malignancy in adults with pulmonary high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma (HGNEC)
Pulmonary high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma (HGNEC) has a rising incidence of developing second primary malignancies (SPMs). This study is the first population-based analysis to quantify the SPM risks among ...BMC Cancer 2020 20:719Evaluation of radioactive 125I seed implantation for the treatment of refractory malignant tumours based on a CT-guided 3D template-assisted technique: efficacy and safety
To observe the medium- and long-term clinical efficacy and safety of radioactive 125I seed implantation for refractory malignant tumours based on CT-guided 3D template-assisted technique.BMC Cancer 2020 20:718Risk adapted approach: How to treat splenic marginal zone lymphoma in resource-poor settings? - The real-life experience of a Brazilian cancer treatment center
Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is a rare lymphoid B-cell malignant neoplasm with primary involvement of the spleen. It is a chronic disease, of indolent behavior and prolonged survival. However, 25% of ...BMC Cancer 2020 20:717Value of peri-operative chemotherapy in patients with CINSARC high-risk localized grade 1 or 2 soft tissue sarcoma: study protocol of the target selection phase III CHIC-STS trial
The value of chemotherapy in soft tissue sarcoma (STS) remains controversial. Several expert teams consider that chemotherapy provides a survival advantage and should be proposed in high-risk (HR) patients. Ho...BMC Cancer 2020 20:716Rare osteosarcoma cell subpopulation protein array and profiling using imaging mass cytometry and bioinformatics analysis
Single rare cell characterization represents a new scientific front in personalized therapy. Imaging mass cytometry (IMC) may be able to address all these questions by combining the power of MS-CyTOF and micro...BMC Cancer 2020 20:715Methylation of WT1, CA10 in peripheral blood leukocyte is associated with breast cancer risk: a case-control study
Studies have shown that abnormal changes of specific-gene DNA methylation in leukocytes may be associated with an elevated risk of cancer. However, associations between the methylation of the zinc-related genes,BMC Cancer 2020 20:713Evaluating different adoption scenarios for TIL-therapy and the influence on its (early) cost-effectiveness
Treatment with tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) is an innovative therapy for advanced melanoma with promising clinical phase I/II study results and likely beneficial cost-effectiveness. As a randomized con...BMC Cancer 2020 20:712Study protocol of the Aerobic exercise and CogniTIVe functioning in women with breAsT cancEr (ACTIVATE) trial: a two-arm, two-centre randomized controlled trial
Up to 75% of women diagnosed with breast cancer report chemotherapy-related cognitive changes (CRCC) during treatment, including decreased memory, attention, and processing speed. Though CRCC negatively impact...BMC Cancer 2020 20:711
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