Some recent studies have shown an association between sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and cancer mortality and incidence but no study has focused on a specific type of cancer. The objective of this study was to analyse the relationship between the severity of SDB and factors related to cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) aggressiveness.We performed a multicentre observational study in 82 consecutive patients diagnosed with CMM. 56 patients in whom melanoma measurements were available were finally included in the study. Melanoma measurements of aggressiveness included: tumour mitotic rate, Breslow index, presence of ulceration, stage of disease and growth rate of melanoma. A sleep study was performed in all the included patients. Multivariate analyses were used to examine the independent relationship between SDB severity (apnoeahypopnea index (AHI) and nocturnal oxygen desaturation indexes (ODI3% and ODI4%)) and measures of CMM aggressiveness.60.7% of patients had SDB (AHI o5) and 14.3% severe obstructive sleep apnoea (AHI o30). In fully adjusted multivariate analyses, AHI (OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.02-1.14), ODI3% (OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.02-1.11) and ODI4% (OR 1.1, 95% CI 1.02-1.2) were independently associated with an increased melanoma growth rate. Furthermore, AHI, ODI4% and ODI3% were significantly correlated with other aggressiveness factors of CMM, such as Breslow index, presence of ulceration and mitotic index.SDB severity markers are associated with some aggressiveness markers of CMM.@ERSpublications This study adds evidence on the relationship between sleep disordered breathing and cancer aggressiveness

Psoriasis is a chronic and recurrent inflammatory skin disease that affects 2.3% of the population in Spain. 1 The first drug regarding the anti-IL23 family to join our therapeutic arsenal has been guselkumab. guselkumab is an immunoglobulin monoclonal antibody G1 lambda (IgG1λ) human anti-interleukin 23 (IL-23). IL-23, a regulatory cytokine, affects differentiation, expan

The severity of SDB was independently associated with greater aggressiveness of cutaneous melanoma, particularly among younger patients.

Guselkumab is a fully human immunoglobulin-G1-lambda (IgG1λ) monoclonal antibody that binds selectively to the p19 subunit of interleukin 23. Few series of real clinical practice that reflect the use of guselkumab have been published so far, including the measure of survival at more than 52 weeks. An observational, longitudinal, retrospective study of real clinical practice of patients with moderate to severe psoriasis receiving treatment with guselkumab 100 mg subcutaneous every 8 weeks in five tertiary hospitals in Andalusia (Spain) was carried out. A total of 87 patients were included in this study. Disease severity and treatment response was assessed by PASI, BSA, VAS pruritus, and DLQI at baseline and after 4, 12, 24, 36, 52, and 76 weeks. Data are presented as mean ± SD for continuous variables, and number and percentage for categorical variables. To determine the differences between visits in PASI, BSA, VAS pruritus, and DLQI a Wilcoxon matched-pairs test was performed. The survival of guselkumab was calculated using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. Our population presented with a mean age of 49.9 years, 60.9% of them were male, had a mean PSO evolution of 20.4 (9.5) years. A total of 79.3% were obese or presented with overweight and had several comorbidities (dyslipidemia 28.7%, arterial hypertension 23% and 20% diabetes among others). At baseline their disease parameters were: PASI = 14.6 (7.2), BSA = 22.3 (16.6), VAS pruritus = 6.0 (2), and DLQI = 15.8 (5). After 52 weeks their disease improved to PASI = 0.9 (1.1), BSA = 1.0 (1.8), VAS pruritus = 0.47 (0.88), and DLQI = 1.54 (2.50). The percentage of patients who achieved PASI 75, 90, and 100 at 52 weeks was 90.3%, 71%, and 51.6%, respectively. The patients evaluated at week 76 (n = 3) reached PASI 0, BSA 0, and DLQI 0. After 93.4 weeks (1 year, 9 months, and 14 days), the overall survival rate was 94% (4 events were reported). A total of four patients discontinue to AE or lack of efficacy after 76 weeks. Guselkumab showed excellent results in the control of psoriasis in the mid-term with an elevated number of patients maintaining treatment after 52 to 76 weeks and a good safety profile.

Melanoma is a highly prevalent cancer that is associated with substantial mortality. Although clinical staging procedures can serve as relatively robust prognostic indicators, we aimed to determine whether assessments of the abundance of hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) or vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in postexcisional melanoma tumor tissues may enable more accurate determination of tumor aggressiveness. We carried out a multicenter prospective study, in which we systematically evaluated 376 consecutive patients diagnosed with melanoma, and performed histochemical assessments for both HIF-1α and VEGF immunoreactivity in the tumor biopsies. Multivariate analyses showed that higher HIF-1α expression, but not high VEGF, were associated significantly and independently with increased tumor aggressiveness as derived from several well-established aggressiveness criteria. A limitation of this study was that this was a descriptive prospective study lacking a post-hoc verification arm. Thus, the presence of increased numbers of positively labeled HIF-1α cells in melanoma tumors may potentially serve as an indicator of tumor phenotype and prognosis, and accordingly guide therapy.