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Preoperative Prediction of Lymph Node Status by Circulating Mir‐18b and Mir‐20a During Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer

Overview of attention for article published in World Journal of Surgery, May 2015
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Title
Preoperative Prediction of Lymph Node Status by Circulating Mir‐18b and Mir‐20a During Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer
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World Journal of Surgery, May 2015
DOI 10.1007/s00268-015-3083-8
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Azadeh Azizian, Frank Kramer, Peter Jo, Hendrik A. Wolff, Tim Beißbarth, Robert Skarupke, Markus Bernhardt, Marian Grade, B. Michael Ghadimi, Jochen Gaedcke

Abstract

In locally advanced rectal cancer, therapeutic success of preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) ranges from resistance to complete regression. For those patients that respond well to CRT, local resection (LR) procedures are currently under investigation to minimize surgical morbidity and to improve functional outcome. To maintain the oncologic benefit appropriate staging procedures are essential. However, current clinical assessment and imaging techniques need further improvement. Five miRNAs associated with rectal cancer (miR-17, miR-18b, miR-20a, miR-31, and miR-193-3p) were analyzed in the plasma of rectal cancer patients (n = 42) using qPCR. Expression levels were assessed before, during and after CRT and analyzed in regard to patients' lymph node status obtained after total mesorectal excision and intensive histopathological work-up. Four of the five miRNAs revealed reliable results in the plasma. miR-31 was excluded due to its low expression. MicroRNA-17, 18b, 20a, and 193-3p showed altering expression levels at different time points. Only 43 % (miR-17), 43 % (miR-18b), 53 % (miR-20a), and 60 % (miR-193-3p) showed a continuous in- or decrease of miRNA expression. The reduced expression of miR-18b and miR-20a during CRT was found to be significantly associated with postoperative lymph node negativity (p < 0.05). MicroRNA expression in patient plasma changes during preoperative CRT. The alteration is not continuous and the meaning requires additional analysis on a larger patient cohort. The co-occurrence of reduced miR-18b and miR-20a expression with lymph node negativity after preoperative CRT could help to stratify the surgical procedure with respect to total mesorectal excision and LR if validated prospectively.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 20%
Student > Bachelor 4 16%
Student > Postgraduate 2 8%
Other 2 8%
Other 4 16%
Unknown 2 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 44%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 5 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 August 2017.
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#4,760,740
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Outputs from World Journal of Surgery
#814
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#60,511
of 267,110 outputs
Outputs of similar age from World Journal of Surgery
#9
of 49 outputs
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