| 1 | Transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: A review of techniques显示文摘Hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)is one of the most common malignant diseases worldwide.While curative therapies,including resection,liver transplantation,and percutaneous ablation(percutaneous ethanol injection and radiofrequency ablation),are applicable for only a portion of the HCC population,transcatheter arterial chemoembolization(TACE)has been recognized as an effective palliative treatment option for patients with advanced HCC.TACE is also used even for single HCCs in which it is difficult to perform surgical resection or locoregional treatment due to systemic co-morbidities or anatomical problems.TACE has become widely adopted in the treatment of HCC.By using computed tomography-angiography,TACE is capable of performing diagnosis and treatment at the same time.Furthermore,TACE plays an important role in the multidisciplinary treatment for HCC when combined with other treatment.In this review,we first discuss the history of TACE,and then review the previous findings about techniques of achieving a locoregional treatment effect(liver infarction treatment,e.g.,ultra-selective TACE,balloon-occluded TACE),and the use of TACE as a drugdelivery system for anti-cancer agents(palliative,e.g.,platinum complex agents,drug-eluting beads)for multiple lesions. | Norihiro Imai Masatoshi Ishigami Yoji Ishizu Teiji Kuzuya Takashi Honda Kazuhiko Hayashi Yoshiki Hirooka Hidemi Goto | 2014 | World Journal of Hepatology2014,6,12: | 24 |
| 2 | Cancer detection by ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1 methylation in pancreatobiliary fluids显示文摘AIM:To evaluate the utility of measuring epigenetic alterations in pancreatic and biliary fluids in determining molecular markers for pancreatobiliary cancers.METHODS:DNA was extracted from undiluted pancreatic and biliary fluids.As a surrogate for a genomewide hypomethylation assay,levels of long interspersed nuclear element-1(LINE-1) methylation were analyzed using bisulfite pyrosequencing.CpG island hypermethylation of 10 tumor-associated genes,aryl-hydrocarbon receptor repressor,adenomatous polyposis coli,calcium channel,voltage dependent,T type α1G subunit,insulin-like growth factor 2,O-6-methyl-guanine-DNA methyltransferase,neurogenin 1,CDKN2A,runt-related transcription factor 3(RUNX3),secreted frizzled-related protein 1,and ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1(UCHL1),was analyzed using MethyLight.To examine the role of CpG methylation and histone deacetylation in the silencing of UCHL1,human gallbladder carcinoma cell lines and pancreatic carcinoma cell lines were treated with 2 or 5 μmol/L 5-AZA-dC for 72 h or 100 nmol/L Trichostatin A for 24 h.After the treatment,UCHL1 expression was analyzed by real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.RESULTS:Pancreatobiliary cancers exhibited significantly lower LINE-1 methylation levels in pancreatic and biliary fluids than did noncancerous pancreatobiliary disease(58.7% ± 4.3% vs 61.7% ± 2.2%,P = 0.027;53.8% ± 6.6% vs 57.5% ± 1.7%,P = 0.007);however,LINE-1 hypomethylation was more evident in pancreatic cancer tissues than in pancreatic fluids(45.4% ± 5.5% vs 58.7% ± 4.3%,P < 0.001).CpG island hypermethylation of tumor-associated genes was detected at various frequencies,but it was not correlated with LINE-1 hypomethylation.Hypermethylation of the UCHL1 gene was cancer-specific and most frequently detected in pancreatic(67%) or biliary(70%) fluids from patients with pancreatobiliary cancer.As a single marker,hypermethylation of the UCHL1 gene in pancreatic and biliary fluids was most useful for the detection of pancreatic and pancreatobiliary cancers,respectively(100% specificity).Hypermethylation of the UCHL1 and RUNX3 genes in pancreatic and biliary fluids was the most useful combined marker for pancreatic(87% sensitivity and 100% specificity) and pancreatobiliary(97% sensitivity and 100% specificity) cancers.Treatment with a demethylating agent,5-AZA-2'-deoxycytidine,restored UCHL1 expression in pancreatobiliary cancer cell lines.CONCLUSION:Our results suggest that hypermethylation of UCHL1 and RUNX3 in pancreatobiliary fluid might be useful for the diagnosis of pancreatobiliary cancers. | Norihiro Kato Hiroyuki Yamamoto Yasushi Adachi Hirokazu Ohashi Hiroaki Taniguchi Hiromu Suzuki Mayumi Nakazawa Hiroyuki Kaneto Shigeru Sasaki Kohzoh Imai Yasuhisa Shinomura | 2013 | World Journal of Gastroenterology2013,19,11: | 3 |