In memoriam

Professor Radan Džodić (02.11.1952-21.06.2020); (PDF)

OPINION ARTICLE

Highly prolific authors in medical science: from charisma to opportunism

Dimitrios Moris; pp 2136-2140 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

REVIEW ARTICLES

c-Fos/ c-Jun transcription factors in non-small cell lung carcinoma 

Konstantinos Manios, Evangelos Tsiambas, Ioannis Stavrakis, Athanasios Stamatelopoulos, Nikolaos Kavantzas, George Agrogiannis, Andreas C.Lazaris; pp 2141-2143 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Micro-RNAs signatures in papillary thyroid carcinoma

Nicholas Mastronikolis, Evangelos Tsiambas, Dimitrios Roukas, Panagiotis Fotiades, Aristeidis Chrysovergis, Vasileios Papanikolaou, Efthymios Kyrodimos, Sofianiki Mastronikoli, Athanasios Niotis, Vasileios Ragos; (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Distinct effects of anti-diabetic medications on liver cancer risk and patient survival

Pan-Hong Chen, Guang-Zhi Zhu, Li Li, Yao Chen, Hui-Qi Dai, Wen-Jing Su, Yong Wu, Jing Zhou; pp 2147-2153 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

COLORECTAL CANCER

Clinicopathologic features and prognosis of histologic subtypes in the right-sided colon cancer

Serkan Zenger, Bulent Gurbuz, Ugur Can, Emre Balik, Dursun Bugra;  pp 2154-2159 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

The prognostic significance of Caspase-3 and survivin expression in colorectal cancer patients

Zisis Touloumis, Andreas Lazaris, John Griniatsos; pp 2160-2170 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Effect of colorectal resection combined with intraoperative radiofrequency ablation in treating colorectal cancer with liver metastasis and analysis of its prognosis

Tao Fu, Liu He, Feide Liu; pp 2170-2179 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

LncRNA-PCAT1 controls the growth, metastasis and drug resistance of human colon cancer cells

Haiying Sun, Xuren Sun, Huijing Zhang, An Yue, Mingjun Sun; pp 2180-2185 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Comparison of the laparoscopic versus open surgery in patients aged over 75 years old with colorectal cancer. Short- and Mid-term outcomes

Ira Sotirova, Antonios Gklavas, Constantinos Nastos, Georgia Micha, Nikolaos Dafnios, Dionysios Dellaportas, Theodosios Theodosopoulos; pp 2186-2191 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Simultaneous resection of colorectal cancer and synchronous liver metastases is safe for properly selected elderly patients: A retrospective study

Yulin Guo, Shun Hu, Feng Cao, Dongbin Liu, Fei Li; pp 2192-2198 (PDF, Pubmed Abstract)

Anastomotic leak after colorectal cancer surgery – risk factors in 21thcentury 

Damir Jasarovic, Dragos Stojanovic, Nebojsa Mitrovic, Dejan Stevanovic; pp 2199-2204  (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

IRF-1 mediated long non-coding RNA PVT1-214 promotes oxaliplatin resistance of colorectal cancer via miR-128 inhibition

Deyong Tong, Erwen Zou, Li Bai, Jianjun Ma, Na Guo,Huhui Wang, Li Jiang; pp 2205-2214 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

BREAST CANCER

MicroRNA-1 regulates the growth and chemosensitivity of breast cancer cells by targeting MEK/ERK pathway

Lihong Yang, Nannan Cai, Li Zhao; pp 2215-2220 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Ambrosin sesquiterpene lactone exerts selective and potent anticancer effects in drug-resistant human breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231) through mitochondrial mediated apoptosis, ROS generation and targeting Akt/β-Catenin signaling pathway

Shanji Fan, Ying Cui, Zecheng Hu, Wenhao Wang, Wujiu Jiang, Haifan Xu; pp 2221-2227 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Efficacy of everolimus combined with endocrine therapy in HR-positive/HER-2-negativeadvanced breast cancer

Xifu Song, Jingjing Lu, Liyan Wang, Feifei Kong, Hangyu Yuan, Cheng Chen, Haixia Shan; pp 2228-2236 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Efficacy of oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery combined with intraoperative radiotherapy on early breast cancer

Quan Liu, Jun Fang; pp 2237-2243 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Molecular evaluation of a multiplex methylation panel for epigenetic analysis of FNAB samples from Greek patients with suspicious breast lesions

Eleftherios Vavoulidis, Stamatios Petousis, Chrysoula Margioula-Siarkou, Evangelia Mareti, Niki Kougioumtsidou, Marianthi Symeonidou, Panagiotis-Dimitrios Loufopoulos, Angelos Daniilidis, Agathi Chatzikyriakidou, Alexios Lambropoulos, Leonidas Zepiridis, Konstantinos Dinas; pp 2244-2254 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Identification of invasive key genes in breast cancer by bioinformatics analysis

Song Wang, Yi Quan; pp 2255-2264 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Assessment of acute toxicities and early local recurrences in post mastectomy breast cancer patients by accelerated hypofractionated radiotherapy; a single arm clinical trial

Niranjan Vijayaraghavan, Parthasarathy Vedasoundaram, John M Mathew, Abhilash Menon, Bharadhwaj Kannan; pp 2265-2270 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

GYNECOLOGIC CANCER

Effect of postoperative sequential chemoradiotherapy and concurrent chemoradiotherapy in treating advanced endometrial cancer

Li Chen, Qingwei Xiang; pp 2271-2278 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

ΜiR-182-5p functions as a tumor suppressor to sensitize human ovarian cancer cells to cisplatin through direct targeting the cyclin dependent kinase 6 (CDK6)

Li Duan, Ying Yan, Guan Wang, Yan-ling Xing, Jie Sun, Li-li Wang; pp 2279-2286 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Changes in tumor markers, coagulation function and serum VEGF in patients with ovarian cancer and benign ovarian disease

Jiaying Wang, Miaohua Zhu, Xiaoming Zhou, Tingting Wang, Jing Zhang; pp 2287-2292 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Anticancer effects of α-mangostin in OVACAR-3 human ovarian carcinoma cells are mediated via involvement of reactive oxygen species, mitochondrial –mediated apoptosis, suppression of cell migration and invasion and m-TOR/PI3K/AKT signaling pathway

Yi Yu, Zhiyi Fei, Li Qin; pp 2293-2300 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Naturally occurring davanone terpenoid exhibits anticancer potential against ovarian cancer cells by inducing programmed cell death, by inducing caspase-dependent apoptosis, loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, inhibition of cell migration and invasion and targeting PI3K/AKT/MAPK signaling pathway

Jing Cai; YuanYuan Zhong; Shenglan Tian; pp 2301-2307 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

GASTRIC CANCER

 [Retracted] Oridonin triggers G2/M cell cycle arrest, cellular apoptosis and autophagy in human gastric cancer cells

Dongliang Zhu, Xiaoling Tian, Xiaoping Yin, Haidong Yan, Weihao Li; pp 2308-2314 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

(This article has been retracted. See the Retraction notice here)

 [Retracted] MicroRNA-23 regulates the growth, metastasis and chemosensitivity of human gastric cancer cells by targeting MAP3K9

Deping Li, Juan Wang, Yuanjian Hui, Yan Yang, Xingchun Peng, Shengbao Li, Chuantao Sun; pp 2315-2321 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

(This article has been retracted. See the Retraction notice here)

Social attention of the top 50 scientific articles on gastric cancer: Bibliometric and altmetric analysis

Beslen Goksoy; Hilmi Bozkurt; pp 2322-2331 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

The expression and prognostic value of miR-195-5p in patients with advanced gastric cancer after chemotherapy

Wen Song, Zheng Cui, Hua Liu, Li Xue, Hui Ju; pp 2332-2340 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Concurrent versus sandwich treatment in adjuvant treatment in high risk operated gastric cancer: A single center experience

Ahmet Sezer, Berna Akkus, Ozan Cem Guler, Huseyin Cem Onal, Ahmet Taner Sumbul; pp 2341-2349 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

LUNG CANCER

The expression of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3B and its correlation with tumor characteristics as well as prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer patients: a retrospective study

Cui Liu, Xinmiao Li, Jun Tian, Shengli Zhang, Yangmeng Liu, Xiemin Zhai, Qiang Feng; pp 2350-2357 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

 [Retracted] Lycopsamine inhibits the proliferation of human lung cancer cells via induction of apoptosis and autophagy and suppression of interleukin-2.

Zhengang Yu, Guifang Guo, Bingzhe Wang; pp 2358-2363 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

(This article has been retracted. See the Retraction notice here)

Efficacy of dendritic cell-cytokine induced killer cells combined with concurrent chemoradiotherapy on locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Lin Tian, Wei Wang, Bin Yu, Guoxia Zhang; pp 2364-2370 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

GATA6 activated long non-coding RNA PCAT1 maintains stemness of non-small cell lung cancer by mediating FRK

Qiwei Zang, Long Xu, Jiyao Li, Huijun Jia;pp 2371-2381 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

HEAD & NECK CANCER

Research on the efficacy of laryngendoscopic low-temperature plasma ablation on early glottic cancer

Jianjun Jing, Liang Li, Liang Zheng, Yongxiang Wu, Songzi Jiang, Longfang Zhang, Hui Wang, Gang Liu; pp 2382-2388 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Eriodictyol inhibits the growth of CNE1 human nasopharyngeal cancer growth by targeting MEK/ERK signalling pathway, inducing cellular autophagy and inhibition of cell migration and invasion

Lijun Tang, Yuelan Qin, Keji Ling， Huan Wan; pp 2389-2394 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Relationship between cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) content and prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma before and after radiochemotherapy

Lin Shui, Shanshan Li,Feng Wang, Xiaoqi Xie, Xianfeng Li, Yuanzhao Liu,Dengbing Wu, Ping Ai, Yong Luo, Li Xie, Ping Li, Weimin Li; pp 2395-2404 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

PROSTATE CANCER

Efficacy of brachytherapy combined with endocrine therapy and external beam radiotherapy in the treatment of intermediate and high-risk localized prostate cancer

Wei Zhang, Huiyan Zhou, Mengxian Qin, Xuehai Zhang, Jiarui Zhang, Shengwu Chai, Junyan Song; pp 2405-2411 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

 [Retracted] Anticancer effects of ovatodiolide on human prostate cancer cells involves cell cycle arrest, apoptosis and blocking of Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK signaling pathway

Dongsheng Jia, Jianbo Zheng, Junli Yu, Ning Zhao, Shengxing Lu, Dongfang Hao; pp 2412-2417 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

(This article has been retracted. See the Retraction notice here)

Research on the association of plasma TGF-β1 level and blood lymphocyte/monocyte ratio with pathological grade, clinical stage and prognosis of prostate cancer

Qi Wang, Tongwen Ou, Jin Li, Xin Cui, Jingjin Liang; pp 2418-2423 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

LIVER CANCER

[Retracted] HHIP gene overexpression inhibits the growth, migration and invasion of human liver cancer cells

Xiaobin Wang, Wenjie Ma, Jun Yin, Meizhu Chen, Hong Jin; pp 2424-2429 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

(This article has been retracted. See the Retraction notice here)

The expression of lncRNA XIST in hepatocellular carcinoma cells and its effect on biological function

Zhidan Dong, Juan Yang, Fuchang Zheng, Yao Zhang; pp 2430-2437 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

OSTEOSARCOMA

Correlations of expressions of IMP3 and VEGF with stage of osteosarcoma, microvascular density and pulmonary metastasis

Xiangdi Kong, Lina Xu, Xiangxun Cao; pp 2438-2443 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

[Retracted] Dammarenediol suppresses the growth, migration and invasion of human osteosarcoma cells by modulating PI3K/Akt and STAT-3 signaling pathways

Yingbin Wu, Yue Chen, Zheng Xu, Ming Xiang;  pp 2444-2448 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

(This article has been retracted. See the Retraction notice here)

PANCREATIC CANCER

Effects of aspirin on pancreatic cancer cells PANC-1 and its potential molecular mechanism

Shengping Lin; Yun Pan; Chenglei Xu;  pp 2449-2455(Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Laparoscopic versus Robotic Peripheral Pancreatectomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Georgios Mavrovounis, Alexandros Diamantis, Konstantinos Perivoliotis, Dimitrios Symeonidis, Georgios Volakakis, Konstantinos Tepetes; pp 2456-2475 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

MELANOMA

MiR-26a inhibits proliferation and apoptosis of uveal melanoma cells via regulating p53/MDM2 pathway

Yang Guo, Ye Tian; pp 2476-2481 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

CNS CANCER

Gene expression profiles and protein-protein interaction networks in neuroblastoma with MEIS2 depletion

Xin-Qian Hu, Ze-An Weng, Ying-Feng Xia, Yun-Hong Zha; pp 2482-2489 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

RENAL CELL CARCINOMA

Prognostic significance of basal 18F-FDG PET / CT maximum standardized uptake value in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who were treated with sunitinib

Aydin Aytekin, Mehmet Naci Aldemir, Abdullah Sakin, Ufuk Telci, Ramazan Esen; pp 2490-2495 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

THYMOMA

The expression pattern of ACTBL2 in thymoma reveals its potential therapeutic target efficacy

Ming Liu, Qingxin Meng; pp 2496-2503 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

MISCELLANEOUS

Is there a role of repeat cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) in patients with relapse from peritoneal metastatic disease? A survival analysis

John Spiliotis, Anastasia Prodromidou, Marios Ferfelis, Christos Iavazzo, Marinos Tsiatas, Arxontoula Vaxevanidou, Theodoros Metaxas; pp 2504-2509 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

CHAF1A overexpression in human retinoblastoma promotes cell proliferation and suppresses apoptosis

Jian Shen, Xudong Liu, Ming Zhou, Haojie Liu, Linping Xu, Xiangjun Meng; pp 2510-2514 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Expression and clinical value of miR-27a in serum of patients with skin squamous cell carcinoma

Hui Wang; Songfen Wang; Fang Chen; Chong Zhang; Xuguang Zhang; Yi Sun; pp 2515-2522 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

SHORT COMMUNICATION

Society-oriented Journalism and Scientific Publications

Dimitrios Moris; pp 2523-2524 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Initial experience with neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX as first line therapy for locally advanced pancreatic cancer

Georgia-Sofia Karachaliou, Vasiliki Lazarou, Dimitrios Giannis, George Astras, Dimitrios Moris, Athanasios Petrou; pp 2525-2527 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Chimeric antigen receptor macrophages for breast cancer: An emerging treatment modality

Emir Roach, Kadri Altundag; p 2528 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Machine learning, AI, and breast cancer: A rallying call to drive adoption

Emir Roach, Kadri Altundag; p 2528(Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Should estrogen receptor positive and progesterone receptor negative and HER-2 negative breast cancer patients be considered as a luminal B subtype?

Kadri Altundag; p 2528 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

T1b with ER negative, HER2-positive, and node-negative breast cancer patients might get benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy

Kadri Altundag; p 2528 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

COVID-19 pandemic and some observations about management of breast cancer at private practice

Kadri Altundag; p 2528 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Association between common risk factors and molecular subtypes of breast cancer: Still debatable issue?

Kadri Altundag; p 2528 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Physiotherapists should be included in multidisciplinary team treating breast cancer patients with axillary lymph nodes dissection

Seda Guler, Kadri Altundag; p 2528 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)

Is there any association between conversion rates of HER2 status and metastatic sites in breast cancer patients?

Kadri Altundag; p 2528 (Pubmed Abstract, PDF)