2005
DOI: 10.1159/000086951
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Clinical Significance of Serum Cytokine Measurements in Untreated Colorectal Cancer Patients: Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Type I – An Independent Prognostic Factor

Abstract: The aim of this study was to exploit the potential clinical use of circulating cytokine measurements in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. The levels of cytokines and cytokine receptors were assessed by ELISA in the sera of 50 healthy volunteers and 157 patients with previously untreated CRC and then related to clinicopathological features and prognosis. All tumors were verified histologically as colorectal adenocarcinomas and staged according to TNM classification. The levels of circulating interleukin (IL)-6,… Show more

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“…Our findings are supported by previous studies [32] , exploiting the potential clinical significance of serum IL-8 measurements in untreated CRC patients in comparison to healthy volunteers. Circulating IL-8 serum concentrations revealed a significant correlation with the clinical stage of CRC, bowel wall invasion and liver metastasis [32,33] .…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
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“…Our findings are supported by previous studies [32] , exploiting the potential clinical significance of serum IL-8 measurements in untreated CRC patients in comparison to healthy volunteers. Circulating IL-8 serum concentrations revealed a significant correlation with the clinical stage of CRC, bowel wall invasion and liver metastasis [32,33] .…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…Circulating IL-8 serum concentrations revealed a significant correlation with the clinical stage of CRC, bowel wall invasion and liver metastasis [32,33] . Our results are also well in line with the outcome of recent surveys which compared the expression of a number of different chemokines and growth factors in a panel of arbitrarily chosen CRC specimens with normal mucosa by use of ELISA.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…High levels are associated with systemic inflammatory response syndrome, which can result in multiple organ failure in the worst case scenario (20,22). All patients had elevated cytokine levels prior to treatment, which is in line with previous reports on patients with advanced cancer (41)(42)(43). Taking into account the detected side effects and cytokine data, it seems reasonable to propose that ICOVIR-7 treatment was well tolerated at the dose range used.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 85%
“…We and others have previously shown elevated concentrations of several circulating cytokines and soluble cytokine receptors in patients with colorectal carcinoma, sarcoma and other malignancies [5, 6, 10, 11,18,19,20]. Similar arrays of elevated circulating pro-inflammatory and pro-angiogenic cytokines as well as those initially identified as hematopoietic cytokines were found during surgical wound healing [21, 22], after extensive injuries [23, 24] and in chronic inflammations [25,26,27,28].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Serum levels of cytokines and soluble cytokine receptors have been found to correlate with the clinicopathological features of various lymphoid and non-lymphoid neoplasms, as well as with the response to treatment and survival of patients [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]. Despite recent advances in diagnostic and therapeutic measures, the prognosis of patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) remains poor.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%