...Ming Cui; Ya Hu; Bang Zheng; Tianqi Chen; Menghua Dai; Junchao Guo; Taiping Zhang; Jun Yu; Quan Liao; Yupei Zhao Introduction: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) is an important precursor lesion of pancreatic cancer. Systemic inflammatory parameters are widely used in the prognosis...

... a significantly worse prognosis than that of the high ligation group for RFS ( p = 0.039). Positive IMA lymph nodes were associated with pathological T3 or T4 stage and N2 stage. IMA lymph node recurrences in the high ligation group occurred at the superior left side of the IMA root. In contrast, all recurrences...

...Ziyan Chen; Haitao Yu; Lijun Wu; Sina Zhang; Zhihui Lin; Tuo Deng; Bangjie He; Zhengping Yu; Gang Chen; Fang Wu Introduction: The aim of this study is selecting the hub genes associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to construct a Cox regression model for predicting prognosis in HCC patients...

... with resectable PDAC who have elevated preoperative CA19-9, namely, those with high risk of poor prognosis. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal human cancers worldwide and has become the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the USA [1] and the fourth in Japan [2...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Albumin-to-globulin ratio Hepatocellular carcinoma Inflammation-based prognostic score Prognosis Surgical resection Hepatocellular...

... prognosis factors in elderly CRC patients has clinical importance. This study retrospectively investigated the prognostic significance of the estimation of physiological ability and surgical stress (E-PASS) in elderly CRC patients. Methods: This study enrolled 166 elderly patients aged 75 or more...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Aged Estimation of physiologic ability and surgical stress Gastric cancer Prognosis An estimated 1,300,000 new...

... is a useful predictor reflecting the incidence of complications after gastrectomy and the prognosis of patients with stage II/III gastric cancer. 16 07 2018 30 01 2019 6 3 2019 We performed receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to evaluate the predictive values...

... by integrating the molecular markers and TNM staging system has better performance in predicting long-term prognosis in HCC patients than the TNM staging system alone. © 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel 2018 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may...

...Manabu Yamamoto; Hiroaki Saito; Chihiro Uejima; Akimitsu Tanio; Seigo Takaya; Keigo Ashida; Yoshiyuki Fujiwara Background: Although preoperative lymphopenia is reportedly a prognostic factor in cancer patients, the association between postoperative lymphopenia and patient prognosis has not been...

...Fan Feng; Fei Wang; Qiao Wang; Gaozan Zheng; Guanghui Xu; Shushang Liu; Zhen Liu; Man Guo; Xiao Lian; Hongwei Zhang Background: Data about the clinicopathological features and prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) located in jejunum and ileum are lacking. The present study aims...

... lymphopenia and patient prognosis has not been widely studied. Methods: We enrolled 352 patients who underwent surgery for gastric cancer (GC) between January 2005 and April 2013 to analyze correlations among pre- and postoperative lymphocyte counts (LCs) and prognosis in GC patients. Results: Pre...

... and prognosis. We retrospectively analyzed the clinicopathological features, surgical treatments, adjuvant therapy, and prognosis of DGIST. Methods: Sixty-one patients were identified at diagnosis of primary DGIST from February 2005 to December 2015. One hundred twenty six patients with small intestinal...

... were evaluated. Results: Preoperative CEA >5.0 ng/mL was an independent prognostic factor of overall survival. Elevation of both preoperative CEA and CA19-9 levels showed no synergistic adverse effects on prognosis. Preoperative levels of these markers achieved superior predictive performance...

... predictor of poor prognosis. This study aims at identifying factors affecting recurrence and prognosis after R0 resection for colorectal cancer (CRC) with synchronous PM. Methods: A multi-institutional, retrospective analysis of 172 patients with R0 surgery for CRC with PM was conducted. Clinicopathological...

... entities. The reduced prognosis of RCC may be caused by higher rates of microsatellite instability, KRAS and BRAF mutations. [email protected] 6 08 2015 20 12 2015 30 1 2016 Taking survival analysis into account, authors report contradictory outcomes for RCC and LCC. Meguid...

...Yasuaki Nakajima; Kenro Kawada; Yutaka Tokairin; Makoto Tomita; Satoshi Miyake; Tatsuyuki Kawano Background/Aims: We investigated factors affecting the post-recurrence prognosis in order to develop adequate therapeutic guidelines for determining the indication for treatment of recurrent esophageal...

... to have hepatic relapse and worse prognosis compared to those with EBL <400 ml. EBL ≥400 ml was identified as an independent prognostic factor for mortality by multivariable analysis. When patients were subdivided according to administration of adjuvant chemotherapy, there was a significant difference...

...Haruki Sada; Masahiro Ohira; Tsuyoshi Kobayashi; Hirotaka Tashiro; Kazuaki Chayama; Hideki Ohdan Background/Aims: The prognosis of spontaneous rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains unclear. We investigated the prognosis of patients with ruptured HCC based on the treatments...

... therapy Surgery Prognosis Hepatectomy The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most common cancers worldwide, is increasing in western countries [ 1 ]. Liver resection (LR) is an established treatment with a 5-year overall survival (OS) rate of around 60% [ 2,3 ]. Long-term...