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INTRODUCTION: We investigated whether the expression of L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT-1) in clinical gastric cancer (GC) patients could predict patient therapeutic response to postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. METHODS: Immunohistochemistry was used to investigate LAT-1, CD98, and phosphorylated-mammalian target of rapamycin (p-mTOR) expression in 111 GC patients. To clarify whether LAT-1 influences the therapeutic effects of chemotherapy, the correlation between disease-free survival rates and LAT-1 was determined in 2 groups: 59 patients who did not undergo postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy and 52 patients who did undergo postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. RESULTS: LAT-1 was significantly correlated with CD98 and p-mTOR expressions. We did not find any statistically significant correlation between LAT-1 and recurrence in the nontreated group. In contrast, a significant association was found between LAT-1 expression and disease-free survival in the chemotherapy group. Moreover, multivariate regression analysis demonstrated that LAT-1 was an independent predictor of disease-free survival in the postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy group (p = 0.012). CONCLUSION: Our findings demonstrate that LAT-1 is a useful predictive marker for a successful postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy treatment.
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Antimetabolitos Antineoplásicos/uso terapéutico , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapéutico , Quimioterapia Adyuvante/métodos , Resistencia a Antineoplásicos , Fluorouracilo/uso terapéutico , Transportador de Aminoácidos Neutros Grandes 1/metabolismo , Ácido Oxónico/uso terapéutico , Neoplasias Gástricas/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias Gástricas/metabolismo , Tegafur/uso terapéutico , Anciano , Biomarcadores de Tumor/metabolismo , Supervivencia sin Enfermedad , Combinación de Medicamentos , Femenino , Proteína-1 Reguladora de Fusión/metabolismo , Humanos , Inmunohistoquímica/métodos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia/metabolismo , Fosforilación , Pronóstico , Estudios Prospectivos , Neoplasias Gástricas/cirugía , Serina-Treonina Quinasas TOR/metabolismoRESUMEN
BACKGROUND/AIM: Postoperative chemotherapy is an absolutely imperative treatment for advanced esophageal cancer patients, while preoperative chemotherapy is the standard therapy for clinical stage II/III esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in Japan. The aim of this study was to report the effect of postoperative chemotherapy on survival after esophagectomy due to thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One hundred thirteen consecutive patients with esophageal carcinoma who underwent esophagectomy were included. Several regiments were performed at various times. RESULTS: Adjuvant chemotherapy brought a significantly superior overall survival (p=0.002), although there was no significant difference in cancer-specific survival (p=0.054) for clinical stage II or stage III esophageal cancer patients. Depth of invasion (p=0.003), number of lymph node metastases (p=0.048), and venous invasion (p<0.001) were risk factors for recurrence in the adjuvant-chemotherapy group with positive lymph nodes. Additionally, a not well-differentiated type, lymphatic and venous invasions were risk factors for recurrence in the surgery-alone group without positive lymph nodes. CONCLUSION: Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy contributes to the prognosis of clinical stage II or III esophageal cancer patients.
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Neoplasias Esofágicas/tratamiento farmacológico , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Esófago/tratamiento farmacológico , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia/tratamiento farmacológico , Pronóstico , Anciano , Quimioterapia Adyuvante/métodos , Cisplatino/administración & dosificación , Terapia Combinada , Supervivencia sin Enfermedad , Neoplasias Esofágicas/patología , Neoplasias Esofágicas/cirugía , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Esófago/patología , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Esófago/cirugía , Esofagectomía , Femenino , Fluorouracilo/administración & dosificación , Humanos , Estimación de Kaplan-Meier , Metástasis Linfática , Masculino , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia/patología , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia/cirugía , Estadificación de NeoplasiasRESUMEN
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) exhibits good reactivity to chemoradiation therapy (CRT). The dysregulation of F-Box and WD Repeat Domain Containing 7 (FBXW7) is associated with therapeutic resistance in cancer cells. However, the correlation between FBXW7 expression and CRT sensitivity in patients with clinical ESCC has been investigated only in few studies. Therefore, this study aimed to elucidate the significance of FBXW7 expression in pretreatment biopsy specimens from patients with ESCC receiving CRT. METHODS: We investigated the relationship between FBXW7 expression and CRT sensitivity in 30 pretreatment biopsy specimens with histological grades of post-CRT surgically resected tumors. Furthermore, we evaluated the effects of high FBXW7 expression on the sensitivity to cytotoxic agents, including docetaxel and nedaplatin, and radiation in ESCC cells in vitro. RESULTS: High FBXW7 expression before CRT correlated with a good pathological CRT response in patients with advanced ESCC (P < .05). Further, our in vitro data showed that both chemo and radiation sensitivity increased in TE-8 and KYSE140 cells overexpressing FBXW7 compared with mock cells because of the degradation of the anti-apoptotic protein MCL1. CONCLUSIONS: The evaluation of FBXW7 expression before CRT treatment is a potential predictor of good responders among patients with ESCC receiving CRT.