Background: Adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) of the lung is a heterogeneous disease that is composed of both adenocarcinoma components (ACC) and squamous cell carcinoma components (SCCC). Their genomic profile, genetic origin, and clinical management remain controversial. Patients and methods: Resected ASC and metastatic tumor in regional lymph nodes (LNs) were collected. The ACC and SCCC were separated by microdissection of primary tumor. The 1021 cancer-related genes were evaluated by nextgeneration sequencing independently in ACC and SCCC and LNs. Shared and private alterations in the two components were investigated. In addition, genomic profiles of independent cohorts of adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas were examined for comparison. We have also carried out a retrospective study of ASCs with known EGFR mutation status from 11 hospitals in China for their clinical outcomes. Results: The most frequent alterations in 28 surgically resected ASCs include EGFR (79%), TP53 (68%), MAP3K1 (14%) mutations, EGFR amplifications (32%), and MDM2 amplifications (18%). Twenty-seven patients (96%) had shared variations between ACC and SCCC, and pure SCCC metastases were not found in metastatic LNs among these patients. Only one patient with geographically separated ACC and SCCC had no shared mutations. Inter-component heterogeneity was a common genetic event of ACC and SCCC. The genomic profile of ASC was similar to that of 170 adenocarcinomas, but different from that of 62 squamous cell carcinomas. The incidence of EGFR mutations in the retrospective analysis of 517 ASCs was 51.8%. Among the 129 EGFR-positive patients who received EGFR-TKIs, the objective response rate was 56.6% and the median progression-free survival was 10.1 months (95% confidence interval: 9.0e11.2). Conclusions: The ACC and SCCC share a monoclonal origin, a majority with genetically inter-component heterogeneity. ASC may represent a subtype of adenocarcinoma with EGFR mutation being the most common genomic anomaly and sharing similar efficacy to EGFR TKI.
Role reversal is one of the core techniques of psychodrama therapy. According to Jacob Levy Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, the self emerges from the role that we play. On the basis of Morenian role theory, rich clinical experience has been accumulated in contemporary psychodrama therapy, but it lacks an explanatory theory to comprehensively explain the working mechanism of psychodrama therapy.Starting from the analysis of role reversal experience, predictive processing theory explains interpersonal interaction and role construction in the process of role reversal. According to predictive processing theory, role reversal is a kind of self-construction process. From a single role reversal treatment to different aspects in the process of psychotherapy, this self-construction process is as follows. First, role reversal brings about the change of the signal type. Second, role reversal results in model update. Third, the new model is constructed and generated in the interaction between the individual self and the other. The conclusion turns out that explaining the structural features of role reversal according to predictive processing theory can promote this technology so as to play a better role in clinical treatment.
Background: Sarcoma is one of the refractory malignant tumors and often develops pulmonary metastasis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of surgical resection for metastatic lung tumors from sarcomas of soft tissue and bone retrospectively. Method: Between 2006 and 2015, we had a total of 158 patients with metastatic lung tumors from soft-tissue and bone sarcomas who underwent pulmonary metastasectomy for the first time. In total, 265 surgical procedures were performed in Okayama University Hospital in this period. We analyzed the age, sex, site of primary lesion, histology, extent of primary tumors at the initial diagnosis, extent of pulmonary metastases at the first pulmonary metastasectomy, presence or absence of local recurrence and/or extrapulmonary metastases with or before pulmonary metastases, operative procedures, size of the largest lesions resected, maximum number of the resected tumors, postoperative complications, and the prognosis at the end of 2018. Result: Average number of resected tumors per intervention was 4.0 (range 1-19). These sarcoma patients consisted of 36 males and 122 females, and their average age was 53.7 years (range 14-88 years). Leiomyosarcoma was the most common histological subtype (n ¼ 92, 58.2%) and uterus was the most common location of the primary disease (n ¼ 71, 44.9%). Operative procedures were composed of 202 partial resections, 35 segmentectomies with or without partial resections, 26 lobectomies with or without partial resections, 1 pneumonectomy, and 1 basal segmental auto-transplantation after pneumonectomy. The postoperative complications were limited, showing that pulmonary metastasectomies for sarcomas are acceptable. Overall 3-year survival after the first pulmonary metastasectomy was 50.6%. In univariate analysis, the survival was significantly better for the group with disease-free interval of more than 2 years from the date of the initial treatment for primary disease until the date of diagnosis for the first pulmonary metastasis, the one who underwent pulmonary resections three times or more, and the one in which size of the largest resected lesion was 20 mm or less. Those factors significant in univariate analysis were all significant in multivariate analysis. Conclusion: Surgical resections for metastatic lung tumors from sarcomas of soft tissue and bone were performed without major complications, indicating the acceptable feasibility. If disease-free interval is more than 2 years and the size of the largest resected lesion is less than 20 mm, patients may maximally benefit from pulmonary resection. In order to increase the opportunities of pulmonary resections, we should preserve the lung parenchyma as much as possible when performing pulmonary metatstasectomy, resulting in the better survival.
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