The synuclein gamma (SNCG) protein, a member of neuronal protein family synuclein, has been considered as a promising potential biomarker as an indicator of cancer stage and survival in patients with cancer. The present study was conducted to evaluate the prognostic value of SNCG in patients with esophageal carcinoma (EC). SNCG levels were assessed immunohistochemically in cancer tissues from 73 EC patients. Median age was 57 (range, 29-78) years old. Forty-seven percent of the patients were male. Thirty-seven percent of the patients had upper or middle localized tumor whereas 59 % had epidermoid carcinoma. More than half of the patients (61 %) had undergone operation where 57 % received adjuvant treatment including chemotherapy or chemotherapy plus radiotherapy. Median overall survival was 11.3 ± 1.8 months (95% confidence interval (CI): 7.7-14.9 months). SNCG positivity was significantly associated with the histological type of EC and inoperability (for SNCG positive vs. negative group; epidermoid 80 vs. 53 %; p = 0.05 and inoperable 59 vs.32 %; p = 0.04, respectively). Lymph node metastasis, inoperability and receiving no adjuvant treatment had significantly adverse effect on survival in the univariate analysis (p = 0.01, p < 0.001, and p = 0.001, respectively). SNCG positivity had significantly adverse effect on survival in both univariate and multivariate analysis (p = 0.02 and p = 0.01, respectively). Our results are the first to suggest that SNCG is a new independent predictor for poor prognosis in EC patients in the literature.
Our study demonstrated that childhood trauma, especially emotional neglect, affects coping and adjustment among the patients with breast cancer. It is necessary to determine the childhood experiences to ensure the development of psychosocial interventions that will increase the adjustment and quality of life after the diagnosis of the cancer.
Purpose: Graded Prognostic Assessment (GPA) is a new prognostic index for patients with brain metastases. Brain metastasis is a common site of metastasis in lung cancers. Lung cancer-specific GPA scoring system is used. We aimed to assess the prognostic and predictive significance of Graded Prognostic Assessment (GPA) score in non small-cell lung cancer patients with brain metastasis.
Materials and Methods: This study was designed as a hospital-based retrospective observational case-series study. A total of 95 patients with brain metastatic NSCLC patients who were followed in two different oncology centers in Turkey between 2015 and 2021 have been included into this study. They were divided into 3 groups according to their GPA scores.
Results: The median age of the patients was 62 (range 44-89) years The patients were divided into 3 groups according to their GPA scores. 24 (25.2 %) patients had ‘’0-1’’ GPA score, 54 (56,8 %) patients had ‘’1,5-2’’ GPA score and 17 (18 %) patients had ‘’2,5-3’’ GPA score. The median follow-up time was 11 months and 89 (93.7%) patients died during follow-up. Overall survival (OS) was 8 months. Patients in the low (0-1) GPA scores had worst overall survival than those with higher GPA scores (4.7, 12.6 and 18.5 months respectively and p=0,001).
Conclusion: In this study, we have shown that GPA score is useful in evaluating the prognosis of NSCLC patients with brain metastasis
BackgroundEncapsulated papillary carcinoma (EPC) is a rare malignant papillary breast cancer accounting for approximately .5%–2% of all breast tumors. The aim of this multicenter study was to evaluate clinicopathologic features of EPC in addition to oncological outcomes and radiotherapy (RT) details.MethodsFrom 10 different academic hospitals in Turkey, we obtained pathology reports of 80 patients with histologically confirmed EPC between 2005 and 2022. Demographic, diagnostic, and treatment data were collected from medical records, retrospectively. Local failure, distant progression, toxicity‐adverse effects, overall survival (OS), and disease‐free survival were evaluated, and survival analyzes were performed using the Kaplan–Meier method.ResultsEighty patients with the diagnosis of misspelled sorry (ECP) were retrospectively evaluated. The median age of the patients was 63 (range, 35–85). After a median follow‐up of 48 (range; 6–206) months, local recurrence was observed in three patients (4%). Local recurrence was less common in the patients who received whole breast RT with a tumour bed boost (p = .025). There were not any distant metastasis or disease‐related death. RT was applied to 61% of the cases, and no treatment‐related grade 3 or higher toxicity was reported in any of the patients. Five year OS, cancer‐specific survival (CSS), and were observed as 85%, 100%, and 96%, respectively.ConclusionsECP is a rare, slow‐progressing breast carcinoma associated with good prognosis, it is a disease of elderly patient, and usually occurs in postmenopausal women. It responds extremely well to optimal local treatments and appropriate adjuvant treatments on a patient basis, and has excellent OS and CSS ratios.
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