Fungal mycobiome drives IL-33 secretion and type 2 immunity in pancreatic cancer

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A meta-analysis on salvage surgery as a potentially curative procedure in patients with isolated local recurrent or persistent esophageal cancer after chemoradiotherapy

BackgroundIsolated local recurrent or persistent esophageal cancer (EC) after curative intended definitive (dCRT) or neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) with initially omitted surgery, is a potential indication for salvage surgery. We aimed to evaluate safety and efficacy of salvage surgery in these patients.Material and methodsA systematic literature search following PRISMA guidelines was performed using databases of PubMed/Medline. All included studies were performed in patients with persistent or recurrent EC after initial treatment with dCRT or nCRT, between 2007 and 2017. Survival analysis was performed with an inverse-variance weighting method.ResultsOf the 278 identified studies, 28 were eligible, including a total of 1076 patients. Postoperative complications after salvage esophagectomy were significantly more common among patients with isolated persistent than in those with locoregional recurrent EC, including respiratory (36.6% versus 22.7%; difference in proportion 10.9 with 95% confidence interval (CI) [3.1; 18.7]) and cardiovascular complications (10.4% versus 4.5%; difference in proportion 5.9 with 95% CI [1.5; 10.2]). The pooled estimated 30- and 90-day mortality was 2.6% [1.6; 3.6] and 8.0% [6.3; 9.8], respectively. The pooled estimated 3-year and 5-year overall survival (OS) were 39.0% (95% CI: [35.8; 42.2]) and 19.4% [95% CI:16.5; 22.4], respectively. Patients with isolated persistent or recurrent EC after initial CRT had similar 5-year OS (14.0% versus 19.7%, difference in proportion −5.7, 95% CI [-13.7; 2.3]).ConclusionsSalvage surgery is a potentially curative procedure in patients with locally recurrent or persistent esophageal cancer and can be performed safely after definitive or neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy when surgery was initially omitted.     

Dosimetric evaluation of right coronary artery in radiotherapy for breast cancer

Comparison with control groups of untreated patients suggests that right-breast-cancer patients who receive radiotherapy have a higher rate of heart disease. Dose constraint for heart has been established to minimize radiotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity during left breast cancer treatment. Additionally, it is suggested to minimize the dosage on left anterior descending (LAD) artery. Right coronary artery (RCA), is the second largest artery, after left main coronary artery, supplying the heart. A dose evaluation study is not present for RCA; the proximal part of which is included in the irradiation field during breast cancer treatment of right breast. To investigate the presence of a correlation, doses resulting from right and left breast radiotherapy on proximal RCA (pRCA), LAD, and heart are evaluated in this study. Forty breast cancer patients who went under breast-conserving surgery are the subject of this study. Four groups were established; right breast, right breast and internal mammary (IM), left breast and left breast, and IM. pRCA, LAD, and heart volumes were contoured for each group on the planning tomographies. Resultant doses of tangential fields planning on these volumes were compared using dose-volume histograms. Mean and maximum doses of pRCA were statistically compared between groups. The highest mean and maximum point doses (192 to 284 cGy) were found in the right breast + IM group (p < 0.05). The mean and maximum doses only in the right breast and left breast + IM group did not differ statistically. However, the mean and maximum pRCA doses in these 2 groups were higher than only the left breast group (p < 0.05). pRCA receives high doses during radiotherapy of right and left breast especially if IM is included. This may predispose to coronary artery disease.     

SeqSeg: A sequential method to achieve nasopharyngeal carcinoma segmentation free from background dominance

Reliable nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) segmentation plays an important role in radiotherapy planning. However, recent deep learning methods fail to achieve satisfactory NPC segmentation in magnetic resonance (MR) images, since NPC is infiltrative and typically has a small or even tiny volume with indistinguishable border, making it indiscernible from tightly connected surrounding tissues from immense and complex backgrounds. To address such background dominance problems, this paper proposes a sequential method (SeqSeg) to achieve accurate NPC segmentation. Specifically, the proposed SeqSeg is devoted to solving the problem at two scales: the instance level and feature level. At the instance level, SeqSeg is forced to focus attention on the tumor and its surrounding tissue through the deep Q-learning (DQL)-based NPC detection model by prelocating the tumor and reducing the scale of the segmentation background. Next, at the feature level, SeqSeg uses high-level semantic features in deeper layers to guide feature learning in shallower layers, thus directing the channel-wise and region-wise attention to mine tumor-related features to perform accurate segmentation. The performance of our proposed method is evaluated by extensive experiments on the large NPC dataset containing 1101 patients. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed SeqSeg not only outperforms several state-of-the-art methods but also achieves better performance in multi-device and multi-center datasets.     

Effect of corneal stromal pocket irrigation in small-incision lenticule extraction

ObjectivesTo investigate the effect of corneal stromal pocket irrigation after small-incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) on visual acuity, intraocular pressure (IOP), corneal parameters and complications after surgery.MethodsA total of 242 eyes of 121 patients undergoing SMILE were enrolled in this prospective controlled study, and it was designed for one eye to randomly undergo SMILE with balanced salt solution irrigation of the corneal stromal pocket, while the other eye was not. The uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) and slit lamp examination were recorded at 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, and 1 month. Postoperative corneal density, corneal biomechanical, corneal endothelial cell number, and anterior OCT images were compared at 1 day, 1 week, and 1 month.ResultsCompared with the nonirrigation group, the irrigation group showed significantly higher UDVA at 1 day postoperatively (P < 0.05), but there was no significant difference during the rest of the postoperative period (1 hour, 1 week, and 1 month). In addition, no significant differences were found in IOP, corneal density, corneal biomechanics, corneal endothelial cells, and corneal morphology. No visual decline or severe postoperative complications were found in the patients in this study.ConclusionsInterlamellar irrigation did not affect IOP, corneal parameters, morphology, complications, or UDVA at 1 hour, 1 week, and 1 month after the operation, but it may promote UDVA 1 day after the operation.Subject terms: Refractive errors, Outcomes research, Surgery     

不同区域晶状体上皮细胞基因表达差异分析

【目的】比较不同区域猪晶状体上皮细胞的基因表达在转录组水平上的差异。【方法】解剖显微镜下分离晶状体前囊膜，将附着于其上的上皮细胞分为中央（直径为10．56mm）和周边两部分。分别提取两个样本的总RNAs并经PCR扩增，以Cy3和Cy5分别标记扩增的中央与周边部分的cDNA。与含7548个基因的表达谱芯片杂交，经图像分析，生物信息学处理获得基因表达在转录水平差异的相关信息。【结果】中央与周边区域的猪晶状体上皮细胞在转录组水平共鉴定出952个有效表达的基因点，其中差异表达基因261个．以中央区域为参照，周边上皮细胞mRNA上调137个，下调124个。差异表达基因主要涉及的功能有：细胞周期与凋亡、细胞骨架蛋白及细胞外基质、转录、细胞信号分子等。【结论】中央与周边区域猪晶状体上皮细胞基因表达在转录组水平上差异明显。这类差异呈明显的功能聚类。     

肛管腺癌49例的临床特点及其治疗

目的 探讨肛管腺癌的临床特点和治疗方法。方法 回顾性分析我院1965年1月至2002年3月间收治的肛管腺癌共49例的临床资料。结果 男女比例1．3：1，平均年龄52岁，中位年龄56岁。肛门出血、便条变细和肛门肿物是最常见的症状。36．7％伴有慢性肛周疾病史。治疗后中位随访时间66个月。局部复发和腹股沟淋巴结转移各7例，肺转移2例，锁骨上淋巴结转移和纵隔转移各1例。单纯手术组、单纯放化疗组、综合治疗组（腹会阴联合切除加术后辅助放化疗）和无局部治疗组患者的3年总生存率分别是41，3％、20．0％、56．3％和15．0％，5年总生存率分别是34．4％、0、37．5％和0。结论 早期诊断是改善肛管腺癌预后的最基本保证，综合治疗是目前疗效较好的治疗手段。     

血管生成抑制剂YH-16联合氟尿嘧啶抑制结直肠癌肝转移的研究

目的探讨血管生成抑制剂YH-16和氟尿嘧啶（5-FU）联合应用对结直肠癌肝转移的抑制作用。方法用MTT方法测定血管生成抑制剂YH-16和5-FU对血管内皮细胞和结肠癌细胞的IC50；建立小鼠肝转移模型。随机分为对照组、YH-16组（又分为低、中、高剂量3组）和5-Fu组及联合治疗组（YH-16加5-FU），术后2周观察各组小鼠肝转移瘤数目、原发灶大小和毒性反应。并检测肝转移瘤血管内皮生长因子（VEGF）的表达和肿瘤微血管密度（MVD）。结果YH-16对结肠癌细胞的IC50是血管内皮细胞的3．38倍，而5-Fu对两种细胞的IC50差别不大。高剂量YH-16组、5-FU组和联合治疗组肝转移瘤数目明显低于对照组。而联合治疗组又低于高剂量YH-16组和5-FU组（均P〈0．05）。YH-16各剂量组的脾原发瘤体积与对照组比较均P〉0．05。差异无统计学意义；而5-FU组和联合治疗组则小于对照组（均P〈0．05）。YH-16的毒性明显低于5-FU（P〈0．05），且两者联合使用其毒性与单用5-FU比较，差异无统计学意义（P〉0．05）。5-FU组和联合治疗组肝转移瘤组织中VEGF的表达明显降低，中、高剂量YH-16组和5-FU组及联合治疗组肝转移瘤组织中的MVD计数明显降低（均P〈0．05）。结论血管生成抑制剂YH-16明显抑制结直肠癌肝转移，YH-16与5-FU联合应用对结直肠癌肝转移的抑制具有协同作用。     

CT导向下~(125)I粒子植入治疗复发性盆腔恶性肿瘤

目的探讨CT导向下125I粒子植入治疗复发性盆腔恶性肿瘤的疗效。方法18例复发性盆腔恶性肿瘤患者采用CT导向下125I放射性粒子植入。粒子植入之前采用TPS模拟布源或遵循Halarism的125I经验公式:mCi=Da×5,Da为靶组织长、宽、高的平均值(L W H)/3,单位为cm,求出术中所需125I粒子的总活度及算出治疗粒子的数量。在螺旋CT导向下将125I放射性粒子植入盆腔肿瘤内。结果全组18例22个病灶治疗后2个月后采用PET-CT评价,完全缓解(CR)6例,部分缓解(PR)8例,稳定(NC)3例,进展(PD)1例。18例随访7~16个月,全部存活,近期平均生存期9.5个月。结论125I放射性粒子植入是治疗复发性盆腔恶性肿瘤的一种有效的方法。