People with abnormal breast tissue can eventually present breast cancer symptoms. The aim of this paper is to examine new prognostic methods for breast cancer using electroencephalographic techniques (EEG). Since it is known that electrical brain activity can be recorded by EEG, and since proteins and genes affect the electrical ...

Context Inhibin-alpha is commonly used in differentiating non-small-cell lung carcinoma from certain metastatic carcinomas, but a study on a large series of primary lung cancer cases has not yet been published. Objective To establish whether non-small-cell lung carcinoma can express inhibin-alpha; if so, caution should be exercised when using the ...

We compared the effects of ibandronate and pamindronate in patients with bone metastases from breast or lung cancer and we found that ibandronate is superior to pamindronate in alleviating pain, improving mobility and quality of life, and reducing bone resorption indices in patients with bone metastases from breast or lung ...

Almost all classes of bioactive lipids such as cholesterol and cholesterol derivatives, phospholipids and lysophospholipids, eicosanoids, and sphingolipids are critically involved in tumorigenesis. However, a systematic analysis of the distinct tumorigenic functions of lipids is rare. As a general principle, lipids either act directly by binding to receptors and other ...

Detection of high-risk (HR) human papillomavirus (HPV) in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has important prognostic implications; patients exhibit improved survival compared with patients with HPV- SCC. Oral brushing and rinsing samples were obtained from patients with oropharyngeal, oral cavity, or hypopharyngeal SCC and tested for HR-HPV using Hybrid Capture ...

BACKGROUND: Human papillomavirus (HPV), a cause of oropharyngeal carcinoma, has also been implicated as an etiologic agent in nasopharyngeal carcinomas. METHODS: We performed p16 immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and HPV on 45 carcinomas of the nasopharynx. RESULTS: Thirty-four (76%) carcinomas were EBV-positive/HPV-negative, 7 (16%) were ...

"Triple-negative" (TN) breast cancers, which are characterized by estrogen receptor (-), progesterone receptor (-), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (-), are typically associated with poor prognosis because of their aggressive tumor phenotypes. In recent years, the number of patients with breast cancers has remarkably increased, but there are ...

The role of environmental carcinogen exposure in breast cancer development has long been suspected, but no specific association has been identified so far. A few molecular epidemiology studies reported that DNA adducts detected by different methods are associated with a modest increase of breast cancer risk. We aimed to evaluate ...

Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is amplified and overexpressed in 20-25% of breast cancers. This study investigated circulating free DNA (cfDNA) for detection of HER2 gene amplification in patients with breast cancer. Circulating free DNA was extracted from plasma of unselected patients with primary breast cancer (22 before ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the histopathological analysis with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods to predict the presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in oral squamous cell carcinoma biopsies. Eighty-three paraffin-embedded tissue specimens from patients with oropharynx and mouth floor squamous cell carcinoma were submitted to histopathological ...

BACKGROUND: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), the most common malignancy of the oral cavity, has been shown to occur via a multistep process driven by the accumulation of carcinogen-induced genetic changes. STUDY DESIGN.: Array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) were conducted to screen human genomewide ...

Background: Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and tumor-specific alterations in cell-free plasma DNA can both be used as markers of prognosis in breast cancer. To date, there have been no studies that have compared these as markers for subclinical metastases in the follow-up of early breast cancer. In this study, we ...

It is clear that FANCJ, also known as BACH1 or BRIP1, is an essential tumor suppressor gene based on the identification of clinically relevant mutations not only in breast cancer, but also the childhood cancer syndrome, Fanconi anemia. This conclusion is further supported by the direct and functional interaction between ...

A new series of 1,4-bis[5-(5-mercapto-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl-methyl)-thio-4-substituted-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl]-butane 7-12 and 1,4-bis[5-(1-oxo-1-(3,5 dimethyl pyrazol-1-yl)-methyl)-thio-4-substitued-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl]-butane 13-18 were prepared from 1,4-bis(5[hydrazinocarbonylmethylthio]-4-substituted-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl) butane based derivativess were synthesized 1-6. All the synthesized compounds were characterized by IR, NMR and Mass spectral studies. The synthesized compounds 7-18 were screened for in-vitro cytotoxicity potential using the standard MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) ...

A new series of 1,4-bis[5-(5-mercapto-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl-methyl)-thio-4-substituted-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl]-butane 7-12 and 1,4-bis[5-(1-oxo-1-(3,5 dimethyl pyrazol-1-yl)-methyl)-thio-4-substitued-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl]-butane 13-18 were prepared from 1,4-bis(5[hydrazinocarbonylmethylthio]-4-substituted-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl) butane based derivativess were synthesized 1-6. All the synthesized compounds were characterized by IR, NMR and Mass spectral studies. The synthesized compounds 7-18 were screened for in-vitro cytotoxicity potential using the standard MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) ...

Aim:  Human papillomavirus (HPV) transmission via nonsexual modes in childhood has been proposed by several researchers. The aim of our study was to determine the presence of 'high-risk' HPV DNA in human breast milk. Methods:  Using polymerase chain reaction techniques, we evaluated the presence of HPV infection in human breast ...

OBJECTIVES: To assess a novel application of the Prostate Health Index (phi) and biopsy tissue DNA content in benign-adjacent and cancer areas to predict which patients would eventually require treatment of prostate cancer in the Proactive Surveillance cohort. METHODS: We identified 71 men who had had serum and biopsy tissue ...

As cell-free circulating DNA exists predominantly as mono- and oligonucleosomes, the focus of the current study was to examine the interplay of circulating nucleosomes, DNA, proteases and caspases in blood of patients with benign and malignant breast diseases. The concentrations of cell-free DNA and nucleosomes as well as the protease ...

Two clinically relevant high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) types 16 and 18 are etiologically associated with the development of cervical carcinoma and are also reported to be present in many other carcinomas in extra-genital organ sites. Presence of HPV has been reported in breast carcinoma which is the second most common cancer ...

The aim of this study was to clarify the genetic backgrounds underlying the clinicopathological characteristics of urothelial carcinomas (UCs). Array comparative genomic hybridization analysis using a 244K oligonucleotide array was performed on 49 samples of UC tissue. Losses of 2q33.3-q37.3, 4p15.2-q13.1 and 5q13.3-q35.3 and gains of 7p11.2-q11.23 and 20q13.12-q13.2 were ...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated in breast carcinogenesis. Consecutive and non-selected mastectomy specimens from Mexican patients harboring breast carcinomas were sampled in order to look for the presence of HPV DNA. HPV-16 was detected in 6 (10%) of 60 breast carcinomas. Two of these also had HPV genome in ...

Metastatic breast cancer cells co-opt the cells of the bone to increase their production of inflammatory cytokines. Here, we sought to identify key cytokines expressed by osteoblasts in vitro and in vivo in the presence of MDA-MB-231 metastatic breast cancer cells, including a bone-seeking variant. We hypothesized that osteoblast-derived cytokines ...

To determine the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the pathogenesis of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the vagina (SCCVa), and to evaluate its clinicopathological significance. All cases of SCCVa diagnosed over a 15-year period from two hospitals in Barcelona, Spain (n=32) were retrieved. Patients with a history of carcinoma ...

To evaluate the prognostic utility of immunohistochemical assessment of key proteins in multiple DNA repair pathways in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC; estrogen receptor negative, progesterone receptor negative, and HER2/neu negative by immunohistochemistry). Archived clinically annotated tumor specimens from 112 women with TNBC were immunostained with antibodies against DNA repair proteins ...

The authors elucidated an etiologic role of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in carcinoma of the bladder. One hundred seventeen of 224 patients with bladder carcinoma who were treated between 1997 and 2009 were enrolled in this study. The presence of HPV DNA was tested on frozen carcinoma tissues that were ...

Skull metastases are malignant bone tumors which are increasing in incidence. The objectives of this study were to characterize the MR imaging features, locations, and extent of metastatic skull tumors to determine the frequency of the symptomatic disease, and to assess patient outcomes. Between September 2002 and March 2008, 175 ...

Bone is the preferred site of metastasis for breast cancer, and presence of skeletal lesions is associated with significant morbidity and poor prognosis. Skeletal-related effects such as pain, pathologic fractures, spinal compression, and hypercalcemia are frequent consequences of skeletal lesions of breast cancer that have debilitating effects on the patients' ...

This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the role of bisphosphonates in jaw osteomyelitis. 29 patients were included: 18 had been treated with bisphosphonates (12 with multiple myelomas, 3 with breast carcinomas, 2 with prostate carcinomas, and 1 with osteoporosis). Of 11 control patients, 2 had breast carcinomas, 2 had bronchial ...

Evaluation of the cytotoxicity of a novel dinuclear platinum(II) complex of formula Pt2(2-picoline)4(berenil)2 employing a MTT assay and inhibition of [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA in both MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 breast cancer cells demonstrated that the complex was more potent anti-proliferative agent than cisplatin. Data from the ethidium displacement assay indicated ...

The data derived from epidemiological and animal models confirm a beneficial effect of fish oil (rich in ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids) in the amelioration of tumor growth and progression, including breast cancer. The breast cancer patients often develop bone metastasis evidenced by osteolytic lesions, leading to severe pain and bone ...

The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic value of survivin and Bcl-2 homologous antagonist/killer (Bak) mRNA in the detection of patients with bone metastatic breast cancer. This study included 92 patients with breast carcinoma (54 non-metastatic and 38 bone metastatic) and 31 patients with benign breast lesions. ...

Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) exists in human serum as two major isoforms, monomeric 5a and proteolytically processed enzymatically active 5b. The 5b isoform is secreted by osteoclasts and has recently been advocated as a serum marker for bone metastasis in breast cancer patients. The 5a isoform, on the other hand, ...

Osteoblastic bone metastasis is the predominant phenotype observed in prostate cancer patients and is associated with high patient mortality and morbidity. However, the mechanisms determining the development of this phenotype are not well understood. Prostate cancer cells secrete several osteogenic factors including Wnt proteins, which are not only osteoinductive but ...

Periostin, a matricellular protein, is overexpressed in the stroma of several cancers. The aim of our study was to investigate more specifically whether periostin expression is associated with bone metastases from breast cancer and to determine its source in the affected bone. Nude mice were inoculated with human MDA-B02 breast ...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) accounts for approximately 95% of the malignant tumors of the vaginal vulva and is mostly found in elderly women. The future numbers of patients with vulvar SCC is expected to rise, mainly because of the proportional increase in the average age of the general population. Two ...

Bone morbidity associated with antineoplastic treatment is a significant health concern for postmenopausal breast cancer patients. Trials have demonstrated that adjuvant therapy with an Aromatase Inhibitor is associated with an increase in musculoskeletal disorders and bone fractures. The objective of this study was to utilize Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (pQCT) ...

Breast cancer metastasizes to bone where it stimulates formation of bone-resorbing osteoclasts. Bisphosphonates constitute an important treatment for osteolytic metastases. The goal of this study was to assess the effects of soluble factors produced by breast cancer cells on osteoclast survival and responsiveness to bisphosphonates. Osteoclasts derived from the murine ...

In this study we investigated sorafenib tosylate and paclitaxel as single and combination therapies regarding their effects on tumour growth and vasculature as well as their potency to inhibit osteolysis in experimental breast cancer bone metastases. Nude rats bearing breast cancer bone metastases were treated with sorafenib tosylate (7 mg/kg, ...

We have investigated whether systemic delivery of an oncolytic adenovirus, Ad.sTβRFc, expressing the soluble form of transforming growth factor-β receptor II fused with human immunoglobulin Fc fragment (sTGFβRIIFc), could inhibit breast cancer bone metastasis in a mouse model. MDA-MB-231 (human breast cancer) cells were inoculated into the left heart ventricles ...

Platelet-derived growth factor α (PDGFRα) is highly expressed in primary prostate cancer and associated skeletal metastases. Here, we tested whether targeting this receptor could impair metastatic colonization and progression, as well as prolong survival, either as primary or as combination therapy. We used a preclinical animal model of metastasis in ...

Most patients with advanced breast cancer develop osteolytic bone metastases, which have numerous complications. Because current therapies are not curative, new treatments are needed. Conditionally replicating adenoviruses (CRAds) are anticancer agents designed to infect and lyse tumor cells. However, in spite of their promise as selective cancer therapeutics, replicating adenoviruses ...

The bone fragility and increased fracture risk associated with osteoporosis in post-menopausal women is a major public health concern. Current treatments for osteoporosis relying on hormone replacement therapies are suspected to have an association with increased breast cancer risk, highlighting the need for identifying new potential targets in bone. Recent ...

An ideal mouse model should closely mimic a clinical situation. However, for most models available, this is not the case since clinical trials frequently fail to reproduce the highly encouraging therapeutic results obtained from pre-clinical studies performed using mouse models. In this study, in the process of extending the application ...

Female breast cancer is one of the major causes of death among women. Metastatic tumors to the maxillo-facial bones are rare. We present diagnosis and treatment of multiple metastatic invasive ductal carcinoma involving massive and early stage the left half of the mandibular body, the floor of the orbit, maxilla, ...

Renal cancer is a relatively common malignant carcinoma that metastasizes to bone. The chemokine stromal derived factor-1 (SDF-1) and its corresponding receptor CXCR4 have been shown to regulate organ-specific metastasis in other cancer types. Based on this observation, we predicted that the expressions of SDF-1 and CXCR4 play a role ...

Metastases arise from disseminated tumor cells (DTC) that colonize secondary organs. However, DTC survival strategies to start metastatic outgrowth are unclear. The hostile (hypoxic, hypoglycemic) microenvironmental conditions of the bone marrow serve as an ideal model environment for investigation of DTC survival strategies under environmental stress. We investigated the breast ...

Treatments for breast cancer, specifically hormonal therapy, accelerate bone loss (BL) among breast cancer survivors, leading to osteoporosis and an increase in fracture risk. Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) is a moderate form of weight-bearing exercise, equivalent to walking, and it has been shown to improve aerobic capacity and strength among ...

Appropriate imaging modalities for screening, staging, and surveillance of patients with suspected and documented metastatic disease to bone include (99m)Tc bone scanning, MRI, CT, radiography, and 2-[(18)F]fluoro-2-deoxyglucose-PET. Clinical scenarios reviewed include asymptomatic stage 1 breast carcinoma, symptomatic stage 2 breast carcinoma, abnormal bone scan results with breast carcinoma, pathologic fracture ...

The bone microenvironment is clearly an important determinant of breast cancer metastasis to bone. Once established in bone, the ability for breast cancer cells to hijack normal regulatory pathways for osteoclast differentiation, activation, and survival is known to form the basis of a vicious cycle that promotes both bone destruction ...

Adjuvant therapies for early breast cancer are associated with substantial decreases in bone mineral density. Bisphosphonates are antiresorptive agents that have an established role in preventing skeletal morbidity in patients with bone metastases and in the treatment of osteoporosis. Recently, several trials have demonstrated the efficacy of bone-directed agents for ...