Project description:Globally, ovarian cancer (OC) is the leading cause of gynecological cancer-associated deaths. Metastasis, especially multi-organ metastasis, determines the speed of disease progression. A multicenter retrospective study was performed to identify the factors that drive metastasis, from medical records of 534 patients with OC. The average number of target organs per patient was 3.66, indicating multi-organ metastasis. The most common sites of metastasis were large intestine and greater omentum, which were prone to co-metastasis. Results indicated that ascites and laterality, rather than age and menopausal status, were the potential drivers for multi-organ metastasis. Cancer antigen (CA) 125 (CA-125) and nine other blood indicators were found to show a significant, but weak correlation with multi-organ metastasis. A neural network cascade-multiple linear regression hybrid model was built to create an ovarian cancer metastasis index (OCMI) by integration of six multi-organ metastasis drivers including CA-125, blood platelet count, lymphocytes percentage, prealbumin, ascites, and laterality. In an independent set of 267 OC medical records, OCMI showed a moderate correlation with multi-organ metastasis (Spearman ρ = 0.67), the value being 0.72 in premenopausal patients, and good performance in identifying multi-organ metastasis (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.832), implying a potential prognostic marker for OC.

| S-EPMC5731947 | biostudies-literature

Salivary gland cancer organoids are valid for preclinical genotype-oriented medical precision trials

Project description:We established patient-derived organoids and monolayer culture cells from the salivary gland cancer cases. To compare the RNA profiles of primary culture cells (Organoids and monolayer culture cells) and their parental tumors, we isolated total RNA from 2 cases of the salivary gland cancer and performed transcriptome sequencing for the organoids, monolayer culture cells, and their parental tumors of both cases. Case 6 is a case of adenoid cystic carcinoma and Case 11 is a case of salivary duct carcinoma.

2023-04-27 | GSE223554 | GEO

Discovering medical conditions associated with periodontitis using linked electronic health records.

Project description:To use linked electronic medical and dental records to discover associations between periodontitis and medical conditions independent of a priori hypotheses.This case-control study included 2475 patients who underwent dental treatment at the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia University and medical treatment at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Our cases are patients who received periodontal treatment and our controls are patients who received dental maintenance but no periodontal treatment. Chi-square analysis was performed for medical treatment codes and logistic regression was used to adjust for confounders.Our method replicated several important periodontitis associations in a largely Hispanic population, including diabetes mellitus type I (OR = 1.6, 95% CI 1.30-1.99, p < 0.001) and type II (OR = 1.4, 95% CI 1.22-1.67, p < 0.001), hypertension (OR = 1.2, 95% CI 1.10-1.37, p < 0.001), hypercholesterolaemia (OR = 1.2, 95% CI 1.07-1.38, p = 0.004), hyperlipidaemia (OR = 1.2, 95% CI 1.06-1.43, p = 0.008) and conditions pertaining to pregnancy and childbirth (OR = 2.9, 95% CI: 1.32-7.21, p = 0.014). We also found a previously unreported association with benign prostatic hyperplasia (OR = 1.5, 95% CI 1.05-2.10, p = 0.026) after adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, lipid and circulatory system conditions, alcohol and tobacco abuse.This study contributes a high-throughput method for associating periodontitis with systemic diseases using linked electronic records.

| S-EPMC3690348 | biostudies-other

Project description:cefepime-zidebactam case series

| PRJNA1174875 | ENA

A case records based retrospectively study for the clinical efficacy of cetuximab maintenance therapy in KRAS wild metastatic colorectal carcinoma

Project description:Interventions: Case series:cetuximab maintenance Primary outcome(s): PFS Study Design: Non randomized control

| 2687280 | ecrin-mdr-crc

A multicenter study of clinical characteristics of microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer

Project description:Interventions: case series:None Primary outcome(s): DNA mismatch repair protein Study Design: Single arm

| 2726205 | ecrin-mdr-crc