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[This corrects the article DOI 10.3389/fonc.2020.01021.].Breast and prostate cancers are the most prevalent cancers in females and males, respectively. These cancers exhibit sex hormone dependence and thus, hormonal therapies are used to treat these cancers. However, acquired resistance to hormone therapies is a major clinical problem. In addition, certain portions of these cancers initially exhibit hormone-independence due to the absence of sex hormone receptors. Therefore, precise and profound understanding of the cancer pathophysiology is required to develop novel clinical strategies against breast and prostate cancers. Metabolic reprogramming is currently recognized as one of the hallmarks of cancer, as exemplified by the alteration of glucose metabolism, oxidative phosphorylation, and lipid metabolism. Dysregulation of metabolic enzymes and their regulators such as kinases, transcription factors, and other signaling molecules contributes to metabolic alteration in cancer. Moreover, accumulating lines of evidence reveal that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate cancer development and progression by modulating metabolism. Understanding the mechanism and function of lncRNAs associated with cancer-specific metabolic alteration will therefore provide new knowledge for cancer diagnosis and treatment. This review provides an overview of recent studies regarding the role of lncRNAs in metabolism in breast and prostate cancers, with a focus on both sex hormone-dependent and -independent pathways.Aim This study aimed to identify the independent risk factors of recurrence in patients undergoing primary resection of meningioma and construct a scoring system for the prediction of the risk of postoperative recurrence. Materials and Methods The clinical data of 591 patients who underwent primary surgical resection for meningioma at the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University between November 2010 and December 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. The clinical, radiological, and pathological characteristics were evaluated, and the independent risk factors for recurrence were identified via receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and logistic analyses. A scoring system that included these independent risk factors was used to construct a risk-predicting model that was evaluated via a ROC curve analysis. The recurrences of different subgroups were observed by Kaplan-Meier's curves. Results The clinical data of 392 patients with meningioma were used to construct the scoring system. The logist for identifying meningioma patients at risk of postoperative recurrence and could help in optimizing individualized clinical treatment.The CRISPR/Cas system has stood in the center of attention in the last few years as a revolutionary gene editing tool with a wide application to investigate gene functions. However, the labor-intensive workflow requires a sophisticated pre-experimental and post-experimental analysis, thus becoming one of the hindrances for the further popularization of practical applications. Recently, the increasing emergence and advancement of the in silico methods play a formidable role to support and boost experimental work. However, various tools based on distinctive design principles and frameworks harbor unique characteristics that are likely to confuse users about how to choose the most appropriate one for their purpose. In this review, we will present a comprehensive overview and comparisons on the in silico methods from the aspects of CRISPR/Cas system identification, guide RNA design, and post-experimental assistance. Furthermore, we establish the hypotheses in light of the new trends around the technical optimization and hope to provide significant clues for future tools development.Glioblastoma, the most common primary central nervous system tumor, is characterized by extensive vascular neoformation and an area of necrosis generated by rapid proliferation. The standard treatment for this type of tumor is surgery followed by chemotherapy based on temozolomide and radiotherapy, resulting in poor patient survival. Glioblastoma is known for strong resistance to treatment, frequent recurrence and rapid progression. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether mifepristone, an antihormonal agent, can enhance the effect of temozolomide on C6 glioma cells orthotopically implanted in Wistar rats. The levels of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and P-glycoprotein (P-gp) were examined, the former a promoter of angiogenesis that facilitates proliferation, and the latter an efflux pump transporter linked to drug resistance. After a 3-week treatment, the mifepristone/temozolomide regimen had decreased the level of VEGF and P-gp and significantly reduced tumor proliferation (detected by PET/CT images based on 18F-fluorothymidine uptake). Additionally, mifepristone proved to increase the intracerebral concentration of temozolomide. The lower level of O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) (related to DNA repair in tumors) previously reported for this combined treatment was herein confirmed. After the mifepristone/temozolomide treatment ended, however, the values of VEGF, P-gp, and MGMT increased and reached control levels by 14 weeks post-treatment. There was also tumor recurrence, as occurred when administering temozolomide alone. On the other hand, temozolomide led to 100% mortality within 26 days after beginning the drug treatment, while mifepristone/temozolomide enabled 70% survival 60-70 days and 30% survived over 100 days, suggesting that mifepristone could possibly act as a chemo-sensitizing agent for temozolomide.Denosumab is a monoclonal antibody against RANK ligand for treatment of giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB). Clinical trials and case series have demonstrated that denosumab is relevant to beneficial tumor response and surgical down-staging in patients of GCTB. However, these trials or case series have limitations with a short follow-up. Recent increasing studies revealed that denosumab probably increased the local recurrence risk in patients treated with curettage. This may be caused by the thicken bone margin of tumor that trapped tumor cells from curettage. The direct bone formation by tumor cells in the margin after denosumab treatment also contributed to the local recurrence. in vitro studies showed denosumab resulted in a cytostatic instead of a true cytotoxic response on neoplastic stromal cells. More importantly, denosumab-treated GCTB exhibited morphologic overlap with malignancy, and a growing number of patients of malignant transformation of GCTB during denosumab treatment have been reported. The optimal duration, long term safety, maintenance dose, and optimum indications remain to be elucidated. With these concerns in mind, this review warns that the denosumab therapy of GCTB should be applied with caution.Aim To evaluate long-term outcome and prognostic factors of stage III esophageal cancer after definitive radiotherapy using three dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) or intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) techniques. Methods Patients with T3N1M0/T4N0-1M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) treated with definitive radiotherapy from 2002 to 2016 in 10 Chinese medical centers were retrospectively analyzed. Overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) rates were calculated. Prognostic factors were analyzed by Log-rank test and multivariable Cox model. Results Survival data of 1,450 patients were retrospectively collected. With a median follow-up time of 65.9 months, 1-, 3-, and 5-year OS rates were 69.3, 36.7, and 27.7%, respectively, and PFS rates were 58.6, 32.7, and 27.4%, respectively. Univariable analyses showed that gender, age, lesion location, lesion length, largest tumor diameter, lymph node metastasis, gross tumor volume, EQD2, short-term response, and concurrent chemotherapy were prognostic factors for OS. Multivariable analyses showed that lesion location, T-classification, GTV size, EQD2, and short-term response to RT were independent prognostic factors for OS, and tumor diameter, GTV size, and short-term response were independent prognostic factors for PFS. Conclusions This study demonstrated that definitive radiotherapy using 3DCRT and IMRT provides promising outcomes for locally advanced ESCC.Currently, the standard radiation field for locally advanced cervical cancer patients without evidence of para-aortic lymph node (PALN) metastasis is the pelvis. Due to the low accuracy of imaging in the diagnosis of PALN metastasis and the high incidence of PALN failure after pelvic radiotherapy, prophylactic pelvic and para-aortic irradiation, also called extended-field irradiation (EFI), is performed for patients with cervical cancer. In the era of concurrent chemoradiotherapy, randomized controlled trials are limited, and whether patients with cervical cancer can benefit from prophylactic EFI is still controversial. With conformal or intensity-modulated radiation therapy, patients tolerate prophylactic EFI very well. The severe toxicities of prophylactic EFI are not significantly higher than those of pelvic radiotherapy. We recommend delivering prophylactic EFI to cervical cancer patients with common iliac lymph nodes metastasis. Clinical trials are needed to investigate whether patients with ≥3 positive pelvic lymph nodes and FIGO stage IIIB disease can benefit from prophylactic EFI. According to the distribution of PALNs, it is reasonable to use the renal vein as the upper border of the radiation therapy field for patients treated with prophylactic EFI. The clinical target volume expansion of the node from the vessel should be smaller in the right para-caval region than in the left lateral para-aortic region. The right para-caval region above L2 or L3 may be omitted from the PALN target volume to reduce the dose to the duodenum. More clinical trials on prophylactic EFI in cervical cancer are needed.Several observational studies have found that the risk for breast cancer is significantly reduced in persons who engage in greater amounts of physical activity. Additional observational studies of breast cancer survivors indicate that greater physical activity before or after diagnosis associates with reduced disease-specific mortality. However, no large randomized controlled trials have examined the effect of structured exercise training on disease outcomes in breast cancer. Among the many hurdles in designing such trials lies the challenge of determining how a given regimen of exercise from efficacious preclinical studies can be extrapolated to an equivalent "dose" in humans to guide decisions around treatment regimen in early-phase studies. Guanosine 5'-monophosphate chemical We argue that preclinical researchers in exercise oncology could better facilitate this endeavor by routinely measuring changes in exercise capacity in the subjects of their breast cancer models. VO2max, the maximal rate of whole-organism oxygen consumption during a progressive exercise test, is emphasized here because it has become a standard measure of cardiorespiratory fitness, is well-integrated in clinical settings, and scales allometrically among nonhuman animals in preclinical research and breast cancer patients/survivors in the clinic. We also conduct secondary analyses of existing whole-transcriptome datasets to highlight how greater uptake and delivery of oxygen during exercise may reverse the typically hypoxic microenvironment of breast tumors, which often associates with more aggressive disease and worse prognosis.
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