scholarly journals The relationship between EZH2 expression and microRNA-31 in colorectal cancer and the role in evolution of the serrated pathway

Oncotarget ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 12704-12717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyoshi Kurihara ◽  
Reo Maruyama ◽  
Kazuya Ishiguro ◽  
Shinichi Kanno ◽  
Itaru Yamamoto ◽  
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Author(s):  
Richard Culliford ◽  
Alex J. Cornish ◽  
Philip J. Law ◽  
Susan M. Farrington ◽  
Kimmo Palin ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Epidemiological studies of the relationship between gallstone disease and circulating levels of bilirubin with risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) have been inconsistent. To address possible confounding and reverse causation, we examine the relationship between these potential risk factors and CRC using Mendelian randomisation (MR). Methods We used two-sample MR to examine the relationship between genetic liability to gallstone disease and circulating levels of bilirubin with CRC in 26,397 patients and 41,481 controls. We calculated the odds ratio per genetically predicted SD unit increase in log bilirubin levels (ORSD) for CRC and tested for a non-zero causal effect of gallstones on CRC. Sensitivity analysis was applied to identify violations of estimator assumptions. Results No association between either gallstone disease (P value = 0.60) or circulating levels of bilirubin (ORSD = 1.00, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.96–1.03, P value = 0.90) with CRC was shown. Conclusions Despite the large scale of this study, we found no evidence for a causal relationship between either circulating levels of bilirubin or gallstone disease with risk of developing CRC. While the magnitude of effect suggested by some observational studies can confidently be excluded, we cannot exclude the possibility of smaller effect sizes and non-linear relationships.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keita Tanaka ◽  
Yoichiro Yoshida ◽  
Teppei Yamada ◽  
Takaomi Hayashi ◽  
Hideki Shimaoka ◽  
...  

AbstractThe detection of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) by liquid biopsy is reported to provide prognostic information in colorectal cancer (CRC). Although the frequency of BRAF V600E mutation in CRC is less than 10%, it is associated with poor responses to conventional chemotherapy. We conducted a prospective study to investigate the relationship between the perioperative mutant allele frequency (MAF) of BRAF V600E and tumor recurrence, and to evaluate the possibility of early detection of recurrence. Among 362 patients who underwent radical resection, cfDNA was extracted from the perioperative blood of 11 CRC patients with BRAF V600E mutation and analyzed using the digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) system. The median follow-up time was 22 months, and there were four cases of recurrence. Although there was no correlation between recurrence and the perioperative MAF of BRAF V600E, tumor diameter was correlated with the MAF (p = 0.024), and the MAF increased with time in two patients from whom additional samples were obtained prior to recurrence. In this study, we identified a correlation between the pathological tumor diameter and the MAF, but it was difficult to predict recurrence by measuring cfDNA with BRAF V600E mutation in the perioperative period of radical resection of CRC.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (13) ◽  
pp. 4397-4404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hester C. van Wyk ◽  
Antonia Roseweir ◽  
Peter Alexander ◽  
James H. Park ◽  
Paul G. Horgan ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Tumor budding is an independent prognostic factor in colorectal cancer (CRC) and has recently been well-defined by the International Tumour Budding Consensus Conference (ITBCC). Objective The aim of the present study was to use the ITBCC budding evaluation method to examine the relationship between tumor budding, tumor factors, tumor microenvironment, and survival in patients with primary operable CRC. Methods Hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides of 952 CRC patients diagnosed between 1997 and 2007 were evaluated for tumor budding according to the ITBCC criteria. The tumor microenvironment was evaluated using tumor stroma percentage (TSP) and Klintrup–Makinen (KM) grade to assess the tumor inflammatory cell infiltrate. Results High budding (n = 268, 28%) was significantly associated with TNM stage (p < 0.001), competent mismatch repair (MMR; p < 0.05), venous invasion (p < 0.001), weak KM grade (p < 0.001), high TSP (p < 0.001), and reduced cancer-specific survival (CSS) (hazard ratio 8.68, 95% confidence interval 6.30–11.97; p < 0.001). Tumor budding effectively stratifies CSS stage T1 through to T4 (all p < 0.05) independent of associated factors. Conclusions Tumor budding effectively stratifies patients’ survival in primary operable CRC independent of other phenotypic features. In particular, the combination of T stage and budding should form the basis of a new staging system for primary operable CRC.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-292
Author(s):  
Xiao-yang Liu ◽  
Hua Liu ◽  
Lin Gu ◽  
Hai-lun Zheng

AbstractObjectiveTo explore the correlation between the enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) expression and clinicopathological features in colorectal cancer patients.MethodsA total of sixty-six patients with colorectal carcinoma were admitted to our general surgery department from January 2011 to December 2014. The EZH2 expression levels in the cancer tissues (CTs) from the 66 patients with colorectal cancer and those in distant normal colorectal tissues from 30 cases were examined through immunohistochemistry and western blotting assays. The relationship between the expression of EZH2 and the clinicopathological features and prognosis of the patients was analyzed.ResultsEZH2 in colorectal carcinoma tissues is granularly brown, predominantly expressed and diffused in the nuclei of tumor cells. Positive rates of EZH2 in intestinal CTs and in distant normal intestinal tissues are 62.12% (41/66) and 6.67% (2/30), respectively with significant difference (P < 0.05). Western blotting also confirmed its elevated expression in colorectal CTs. EZH2-positive expression in CTs was related to degree of differentiation, Duke staging, and tumor size (P < 0.05) but was unrelated to the patient’s gender, age or tumor site (P = 0.05). The 3-year progression-free survival (PFS) rates of the EZH2-positive group and the EZH2-negative group were 43.8% and 67.5%, respectively. The risk of disease progression of the EZH2-positive patients in the follow-up period was significantly higher than that of the EZH2-negative patients (HR = 2.49, 95% CI = 1.04–4.80, P < 0.05).ConclusionEZH2 is closely related to colorectal carcinoma development and disease progression, and thus could be used as a tumor biomarker that may indicate prognosis.


2013 ◽  
Vol 144 (5) ◽  
pp. S-218
Author(s):  
Marjolein J. Greuter ◽  
Xiang-Ming Xu ◽  
Jie-Bin Lew ◽  
Evelien Dekker ◽  
Ernst J. Kuipers ◽  
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1996 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
pp. 902-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
AN Freedman ◽  
AM Michalek ◽  
JR Marshall ◽  
CJ Mettlin ◽  
NJ Petrelli ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 995-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen J. Wernli ◽  
Yinghui Wang ◽  
Yingye Zheng ◽  
John D. Potter ◽  
Polly A. Newcomb

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Cheng Wang ◽  
Ya Liu ◽  
Fei-Wu Long ◽  
Liang-Ren Liu ◽  
Chuan-Wen Fan

Background: The relationship between long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and the mRNA stemness index (mRNAsi) in colorectal cancer (CRC) is still unclear. Materials & methods: The mRNAsi, mRNAsi-related lncRNAs and their clinical significance were analyzed by bioinformatic approaches in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)-COREAD dataset. Results: mRNAsi was negatively related to pathological features but positively related to overall survival and recurrence-free survival in CRC. A five mRNAsi-related lncRNAs prognostic signature was further developed and showed independent prognostic factors related to overall survival in CRC patients, due to the five mRNAsi-related lncRNAs involved in several pathways of the cancer stem cells and malignant cancer cell phenotypes. Conclusion: The present study highlights the potential roles of mRNAsi-related lncRNAs as alternative prognostic markers.


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