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Zehua Wang, Haiou Liu, Congjian Xu
OBJECTIVE: This review aimed to update the research and development of cellular senescence in the treatment of ovarian cancer. We discussed the current mechanisms of senescence and the major biomarkers of senescence, especially the methods of cellular senescence in the treatment of ovarian cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collected all relevant studies in PubMed from 1995 to 2017. The search terms included senescence and cancer, senescence and ovarian cancer, senescence-associated secretory phenotype, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or biotherapy...
April 23, 2018: International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
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Qianying Zhao, Qiuhong Qian, Dongyan Cao, Jiaxin Yang, Ting Gui, Keng Shen
BACKGROUND: B-cell-specific Moloney murine leukemia virus integration site 1 (BMI1) might be an appropriate biomarker in the management of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). However, the biological role of BMI1 and its relevant molecular mechanism needs further elaboration. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system is an excellent genome-editing tool and is scarcely used in EOC studies. METHODS: We first applied CRISPR/Cas9 technique to silence BMI1 in EOC cells; thereafter we accomplished various in vivo and in vitro experiments to detect biological behaviors of ovarian cancer cells, including MTT, flow cytometry, Transwell, real-time polymerase chain reaction and western blotting assays, etc...
April 23, 2018: Journal of Ovarian Research
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Birgitte Nielsen, Andreas Kleppe, Tarjei Sveinsgjerd Hveem, Manohar Pradhan, Rolf Anders Syvertsen, John Arne Nesheim, Gunnar Balle Kristensen, Jone Trovik, David James Kerr, Fritz Albregtsen, Håvard Emil Danielsen
Background: Nuclear texture analysis measuring differences in chromatin structure has provided prognostic biomarkers in several cancers. There is a need for improved cell-by-cell chromatin analysis to detect nuclei with highly disorganized chromatin. The purpose of this study was to develop a method for detecting nuclei with high chromatin entropy and to evaluate the association between the presence of such deviating nuclei and prognosis. Methods: A new texture-based biomarker that characterizes each cancer based on the proportion of high-chromatin entropy nuclei (<25% vs ≥25%) was developed on a discovery set of 175 uterine sarcomas...
April 18, 2018: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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Quan Zhou, Man-Zhen Zuo, Ze He, Hai-Rong Li, Wei Li
BACKGROUND: Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) are proposed as promising non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers for many cancers. However, the diagnostic value of circulating miRNAs in ovarian cancer is inconsistent in different studies. Thus we performed this meta-analysis to systematically evaluate the diagnostic value of circulating miRNAs in ovarian cancer. METHODS: Eligible studies that were published prior to 30 June 2017 were searched from the PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure...
April 1, 2018: International Journal of Biological Markers
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Ryan M Williams, Christopher Lee, Thomas V Galassi, Jackson D Harvey, Rachel Leicher, Maria Sirenko, Madeline A Dorso, Janki Shah, Narciso Olvera, Fanny Dao, Douglas A Levine, Daniel A Heller
Patients with high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSC) exhibit poor 5-year survival rates, which may be significantly improved by early-stage detection. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved biomarkers for HGSC-CA-125 (cancer antigen 125) and HE4 (human epididymis protein 4)-do not generally appear at detectable levels in the serum until advanced stages of the disease. An implantable device placed proximal to disease sites, such as in or near the fallopian tube, ovary, uterine cavity, or peritoneal cavity, may constitute a feasible strategy to improve detection of HGSC...
April 2018: Science Advances
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Zhe Zheng, Wen-Chao Geng, Jie Gao, Yu-Ying Wang, Hongwei Sun, Dong-Sheng Guo
We designed a water-soluble guanidinium-modified calix[5]arene to target lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), an ideal biomarker for early diagnosis of ovarian and other gynecologic cancers, achieving binding on the nanomolar level. An indicator displacement assay, coupled with differential sensing, enabled ultrasensitive and specific detection of LPA. Moreover, we show that using a calibration line, the LPA concentration in untreated serum can be quantified in the biologically relevant low μM range with a detection limit of 1...
February 28, 2018: Chemical Science
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Lejla Hasanbegovic, Nedeljka Sljivo
Introduction: Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate of all gynecological tumors and represent fifth leading cause of cancer death in women, due to the absence of early symptoms of the disease and the lack of screening tests. A new HE4 ovarian cancer biomarker was found in various studies, with different populations having quite different sensitivity and specificity values as well as reference values. The tumor marker HE4 is a useful marker for ovarian cancer detection with only minimal expression in normal ovarian tissue...
March 2018: Materia Socio-medica
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Ying Zhu, Sanqin Zhou, Yang Liu, Lingyun Zhai, Xiwen Sun
BACKGROUND: The prognostic effect of elevated systemic inflammatory markers, including neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), remains controversial in cancer patients. This meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the predictive values of these markers for prognoses in ovarian cancer patients. METHODS: Potentially relevant publications in PubMed, ISI Web of Science, and EBSCO were searched. Pooled hazard ratios (HRs) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were determined using a fixed or random effects model...
April 18, 2018: BMC Cancer
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Anne-Laure Renault, Noura Mebirouk, Laetitia Fuhrmann, Guillaume Bataillon, Eve Cavaciuti, Dorothée Le Gal, Elodie Girard, Tatiana Popova, Philippe La Rosa, Juana Beauvallet, Séverine Eon-Marchais, Marie-Gabrielle Dondon, Catherine Dubois d'Enghien, Anthony Laugé, Walid Chemlali, Virginie Raynal, Martine Labbé, Ivan Bièche, Sylvain Baulande, Jacques-Olivier Bay, Pascaline Berthet, Olivier Caron, Bruno Buecher, Laurence Faivre, Marc Fresnay, Marion Gauthier-Villars, Paul Gesta, Nicolas Janin, Sophie Lejeune, Christine Maugard, Sébastien Moutton, Laurence Venat-Bouvet, Hélène Zattara, Jean-Pierre Fricker, Laurence Gladieff, Isabelle Coupier, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Janet Hall, Anne Vincent-Salomon, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Nadine Andrieu, Fabienne Lesueur
BACKGROUND: The ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene is a moderate-risk breast cancer susceptibility gene; germline loss-of-function variants are found in up to 3% of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) families who undergo genetic testing. So far, no clear histopathological and molecular features of breast tumours occurring in ATM deleterious variant carriers have been described, but identification of an ATM-associated tumour signature may help in patient management. METHODS: To characterise hallmarks of ATM-associated tumours, we performed systematic pathology review of tumours from 21 participants from ataxia-telangiectasia families and 18 participants from HBOC families, as well as copy number profiling on a subset of 23 tumours...
April 17, 2018: Breast Cancer Research: BCR
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Anish Thomas, Junko Murai, Yves Pommier
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPis) are DNA-damaging agents that trap PARP-DNA complexes and interfere with DNA replication. Three PARPis - olaparib, niraparib, and rucaparib - were recently approved by the FDA for the treatment of breast and ovarian cancers. These PARPis, along with 2 others (talazoparib and veliparib), are being evaluated for their potential to treat additional malignancies, including prostate cancers. While lack of PARP-1 confers high resistance to PARPis, it has not been established whether or not the levels of PARP-1 directly correlate with tumor response...
April 16, 2018: Journal of Clinical Investigation
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Irit Ben-Aharon, Mattan Levi, David Margel, Rinat Yerushalmi, Shulamith Rizel, Shlomit Perry, Eran Sharon, Noa Hasky, Ronit Abir, Benny Fisch, Ana Tobar, Ruth Shalgi, Salomon Marcello Stemmer
Purpose: Though former evidence implies a correlation of breast cancer susceptibility gene ( BRCA ) mutation with reduced ovarian reserve, the data is yet inconsistent. Our aim was to investigate biomarkers of ovarian aging in a cohort of young healthy carriers of the BRCA mutation. We hypothesized that the role played by BRCA genes in aging pathways is not exclusive to the ovary. Experimental Design: Healthy female BRCA carriers, 40 years or younger and healthy male BRCA carriers, 50 years or younger, were enrolled in the study...
March 23, 2018: Oncotarget
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Michaela Ramser, Simone Eichelberger, Silvio Däster, Benjamin Weixler, Marko Kraljević, Robert Mechera, Athanasios Tampakis, Tarik Delko, Uwe Güth, Sylvia Stadlmann, Luigi Terracciano, Raoul A Droeser, Gad Singer
BACKGROUND: Ovarian carcinoma (OC) is the fifth most common female cancer and mostly diagnosed at an advanced stage. Surgical debulking is usually followed by adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy. Only few biomarkers are known to be related to chemosensitivity. OX40 is a TNF receptor member and expressed on activated CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. It is known that OX40 signaling promotes survival and responds to various immune cells of the innate and adaptive immune system. Therefore we investigated the indicative value of OX40 expression for recurrence and survival in OC...
April 16, 2018: BMC Cancer
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Saira Khalique, Kalnisha Naidoo, Ayoma D Attygalle, Divya Kriplani, Frances Daley, Anne Lowe, James Campbell, Thomas Jones, Michael Hubank, Kerry Fenwick, Nicholas Matthews, Alistair G Rust, Christopher J Lord, Susana Banerjee, Rachael Natrajan
ARID1A is a tumour suppressor gene that is frequently mutated in clear cell and endometrioid carcinomas of the ovary and endometrium and is an important clinical biomarker for novel treatment approaches for patients with ARID1A defects. However, the accuracy of ARID1A immunohistochemistry (IHC) as a surrogate for mutation status has not fully been established for patient stratification in clinical trials. Here we tested whether ARID1A immunohistochemistry could reliably predict ARID1A mutations identified by next-generation sequencing...
April 16, 2018: Journal of Pathology. Clinical Research
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Jingjie Zheng, Xishao Luo, Jiaping Bao, Xiaowang Huang, Yi Jin, Lin Chen, Feiyun Zheng
Autophagy is a survival process that maintains homeostasis in all eukaryotic cells. Recent studies show an abnormal autophagic activity in endometriosis, but the role of autophagy is controversial. Homeobox A10 (HOXA10) is a transcription factor necessary for embryonic and adult uterine development, and studies indicate that its expression decreases in endometriosis. Homeobox A10 may negatively regulate autophagy in endometriosis. To test this hypothesis, we measured the expression levels of autophagic biomarkers (beclin-1 and LC3-II) and HOXA10 proteins by Western blotting and messenger RNA (mRNA) by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction...
January 1, 2018: Reproductive Sciences
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Hideki Shimodaira
Development of molecular targeted drugs has achieved remarkable improvement of systemic cancer therapy. Recently, the several molecular targeted drugs have become available which associated with the status of responsible genes for hereditary cancer syndrome. These drugs would allow to establish specific strategy for hereditary cancer syndrome or sporadic cancers with similar biological phenotype with hereditary cancer. Genetic tests for the diagnosis of hereditary cancer syndrome will have the meaning of biomarker for predicting the efficacy of these molecular targeted drugs...
April 2018: Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer & Chemotherapy
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REVIEW
Alexandra S Zimmer, Mitchell Gillard, Stanley Lipkowitz, Jung-Min Lee
The single agent activity of PARP inhibitors (PARPi) in germline BRCA mutated (gBRCAm) breast and ovarian cancer suggests untapped potential for this new class of drug in breast cancer. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved three PARPi (olaparib, rucaparib, and niraparib) so far to treat certain ovarian cancers, including those with gBRCAm and olaparib for treatment of gBRCAm breast cancers. Several PARPi are now under clinical development for breast cancer in the various treatment settings. Recently, two phase III trials of olaparib (OlympiaD) and talazoparib (EMBRACA) demonstrated 3-month progression-free survival improvement with PARPi compared to physician's choice single agent chemotherapy in metastatic gBRCAm breast cancer...
April 11, 2018: Current Treatment Options in Oncology
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Usha Menon, Chloe Karpinskyj, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj
There has been much progress in ovarian cancer screening and prevention in recent years. Improved tools that combine genetic and epidemiologic factors to predict an individual's ovarian cancer risk are set to become available for tailoring preventive and screening approaches. The increasing evidence on tubal origins of a proportion of ovarian cancer has paved the way to use of opportunistic bilateral salpingectomy at tubal ligation and hysterectomy in the general population. Clinical trials are in progress to estimate the long-term effects on endocrine function...
May 2018: Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Yu Wang, Chunping Qiu, Nan Lu, Zhaojian Liu, Chengjuan Jin, Chenggong Sun, Hualei Bu, Hongfeng Yu, Samina Dongol, Beihua Kong
High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) accounts for the highest number of deaths among patients with epithelial ovarian cancer. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying HGSOC tumorigenesis are currently unclear. In the present study, a lentiviral expression system was employed to manipulate forkhead box D1 (FOXD1) expression in ovarian cancer cells. Immunohistochemical staining was used to examine the expression of FOXD1 in tissue samples. Clonogenic and MTT assays were employed to evaluate cell proliferation, and flow cytometry was applied for cell cycle analysis...
April 4, 2018: International Journal of Oncology
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REVIEW
Ilaria Colombo, Stephanie Lheureux, Amit Manulal Oza
Rucaparib is a potent small-molecule inhibitor of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) proteins (PARP-1, PARP-2 and PARP-3) that play an important role in repairing DNA damage and maintaining genomic stability. Tumors with mutations in BRCA1/2 or other homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) genes are particularly sensitive to PARP inhibitors because of "synthetic lethality", whereby a therapeutic agent can take advantage of an intrinsic weakness in DNA repair. Rucaparib has been investigated in several preclinical and clinical studies showing promising activity in BRCA -mutant and BRCA -wild-type epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs)...
2018: Drug Design, Development and Therapy
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Ashley Di Meo, Cong Wang, Yufeng Cheng, Eleftherios P Diamandis, George M Yousef
The kallikrein-related peptidases (KLKs) constitute a family of 15 highly conserved serine proteases with trypsin- and chymotrypsin-like activities. Dysregulated expression and/or aberrant activation of KLKs have been linked to various pathophysiological processes, including cancer. Many KLKs have been identified as potential cancer biomarkers. microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by pairing to the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of complimentary mRNA targets. miRNAs are dysregulated in many cancers, including prostate, kidney, and ovarian cancers...
March 1, 2018: Biological Chemistry
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