Background: Hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HR+/HER2−) breast cancer represents the most prevalent molecular subtype but demonstrates pronounced biological and clinical heterogeneity. Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) have recently emerged as key determinants of prognosis and immune activity, but their interplay in this subtype remains understudied. Objectives: To assess the relationship between HRD, TILs, and clinical outcomes in HR+/HER2− breast cancer and validate the prognostic value of HRD. Design: Retrospective multicenter cohort study. Methods: A total of 365 patients (332 with available TILs data) from three institutions were enrolled. HRD was quantified using Shallow HRD algorithm on low-depth whole-genome sequencing (threshold: score ⩾6). TILs were evaluated by the MD Anderson system (⩾10% classified as high). Spearman correlation, Kaplan–Meier survival analysis, and multivariable Cox regression were performed. Results: HRD scores were inversely correlated with TILs (Spearman rho = −0.13, p = 0.031). HRD-high patients had significantly inferior 10-year survival (invasive disease-free survival (IDFS): 31.0% vs 57.9%, hazard ratio (HR) = 2.36; distant recurrence-free survival (DRFS): 34.1% vs 61.1%, HR = 2.48; overall survival (OS): 48.7% vs 79.0%, HR = 2.79; p < 0.0001). HRD was confirmed as an independent prognostic predictor (IDFS HR = 2.03, DRFS HR = 2.16, OS HR = 2.15; p < 0.01). No significant survival benefit from anthracycline-based chemotherapy was observed in HRD-high tumors (HR = 1.32, p = 0.451). High TILs showed no significant association with survival outcomes in this cohort. Conclusion: HRD represents a reliable independent prognostic biomarker in HR+/HER2− breast cancer in this cohort, with an inverse association with TILs suggesting immune evasion. Its potential impact on prognosis and treatment requires further validation in prospective clinical trials.

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) demonstrates potential throughout the cancer care continuum, with evidence supporting its application in medical imaging for detection, staging, treatment planning, and prognostic evaluation. However, clinical translation is hindered by challenges, data curation and annotation, model interpretability, generalizability, and integration into workflows. To address these barriers and provide guidance, a national multidisciplinary expert panel in China developed this consensus. A modified Delphi approach was employed to achieve expert consensus, involving 81 specialists in radiology, nuclear medicine, oncology, and imaging AI from university hospitals across China. These experts completed a survey containing 30 core statements addressing AI applications in clinical cancer imaging, spanning cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, response assessment, prognostic prediction, data governance, and implementation. Consensus was defined as a mean score ≥ 7 on a 9-point Likert scale, with ≥ 80% of experts scoring ≥ 7. All 30 statements fulfilled these thresholds, with mean scores ranging from 8.06 to 8.58 and the proportion of experts scoring ≥ 7 ranging from 86% to 98%. This expert consensus summarizes key AI application scenarios in cancer imaging and delivers recommendations on data acquisition and annotation, model development and validation, interpretability, multicenter generalizability, privacy-preserving collaboration, clinical workflow integration, and post-deployment monitoring, while contextualizing these statements across major clinical application domains and key implementation challenges in practice. It further identifies priority research directions, including the integration of multimodal and multi-omics data, longitudinal modeling of treatment response, and prospective validation in clinical settings, to support the safe, effective implementation of AI technologies in cancer imaging. Key Points Question AI translation in oncologic imaging remains constrained by limitations in rigorous validation, actionable interpretability, standardization, governance, and workflow integration. Findings Eighty-one Chinese experts reached consensus on 30 clinically practical statements covering AI applications from early detection to deployment. Critical relevance statement Recommendations highlight expert-supervised labeling, multicenter validation, subgroup evaluation, interpretable outputs, privacy-secured collaboration, integrated workflows, and post-implementation surveillance.

Effective chemotherapy could improve the survival rate of patients with osteosarcoma (OS), but the efficacy of such treatments is often compromised by the development of drug resistance. Circular RNAs are known to exert pivotal regulatory functions in the chemoresistance of multiple tumor cells. The present study was designed to investigate the role and underlying mechanism of circ_0127646 in modulating the chemosensitivity of OS cells to cisplatin. We observed a marked upregulation of circ_0127646 in OS cell lines (HOS, MG63, U2OS, and OS9901) following cisplatin treatment. Silencing of circ_0127646 by a small interfering RNA (si-circ) enhanced cisplatin-induced apoptosis and diminished clonogenic capacity in MG63 and OS9901 cells. Moreover, the sensitizing effect of si-circ to cisplatin in OS cells was counteracted by si-miR-22. Inhibition of circ_0127646 augmented the suppressive effect of miR-22 on KAT6B expression, leading to a reduction in the expression levels of some cytokines, including S100A8, S100A9, PDGF, and VEGF. This reduction, in turn, inhibited the activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway, thereby sensitizing OS cells to cisplatin. Collectively, our findings indicated that inhibition of circ_0127646 could enhance the chemosensitivity of OS cells to cisplatin via miR-22/KAT6B axis. Circ_0127646 might serve as a prognostic biomarker for cisplatin-based therapies and a potential therapeutic target in OS.

Background: BRCA2 plays a key role in homologous recombination. However, information regarding its mutations in Chinese patients with breast cancer remains limited. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the clinicopathological characteristics of BRCA2 mutation breast cancer and explore the mutation’s effect on hormone receptor (HR)-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer survival in China. Design: This hospital-based cohort study prospectively included 629 women with breast cancer diagnosed from 2008 to 2023 at Zhejiang Cancer Hospital in China. Methods: We compared the clinicopathological characteristics and metastatic patterns and analysed the invasive disease-free survival (iDFS), distant relapse-free survival (DRFS) and first-line progression-free survival (PFS1) of patients with HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer according to BRCA2 mutations. Results: Among the 629 patients, 78 had BRCA2 mutations (12.4%) and 551 did not (87.6%). The mean age at diagnosis was lower in the BRCA2 mutation breast cancer group than in the non-mutation breast cancer group (38.91 versus 41.94 years, p = 0.016). BRCA2 mutation breast cancers were more likely to be lymph node-positive than non-mutation breast cancers (73.0% versus 56.6%, p = 0.037). The pathological grade was higher in 47.1% of BRCA2 mutation breast cancers than in 29.6% of non-mutation breast cancers ( p = 0.014). The proportions of patients with BRCA2 mutations who developed contralateral breast cancer (19.2% versus 8.8%, p = 0.004), breast cancer in the family (53.8% versus 38.3%, p = 0.009) and ovarian cancer in the family (7.6% versus 2.4%, p = 0.022) were higher than those of patients without the mutation. The median follow-up time was 92.78 months. Multivariate analysis showed that BRCA2 mutation was not associated with poorer iDFS [hazard ratio = 0.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.64–1.27, p = 0.56] and poorer distant relapse-free survival (DRFS) (hazard ratio = 1.09, 95% CI = 0.61–1.93, p = 0.76). There was no significant difference between the two groups with regard to metastatic patterns in the advanced disease setting. In the first-line metastatic breast cancer setting, PFS1 expression was broadly similar between the two groups irrespective of chemotherapy or endocrine therapy. Conclusion: HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer with BRCA2 mutations differs from those without mutations in clinical behaviour and reflects more aggressive tumour behaviour. Our results indicate that BRCA2 mutations have no significant effect on the survival of Chinese women with HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.

Background: BRCA2 plays a key role in homologous recombination. However, information regarding its mutations in Chinese patients with breast cancer remains limited. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the clinicopathological characteristics of BRCA2 mutation breast cancer and explore the mutation’s effect on hormone receptor (HR)-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer survival in China. Design: This hospital-based cohort study prospectively included 629 women with breast cancer diagnosed from 2008 to 2023 at Zhejiang Cancer Hospital in China. Methods: We compared the clinicopathological characteristics and metastatic patterns and analysed the invasive disease-free survival (iDFS), distant relapse-free survival (DRFS) and first-line progression-free survival (PFS1) of patients with HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer according to BRCA2 mutations. Results: Among the 629 patients, 78 had BRCA2 mutations (12.4%) and 551 did not (87.6%). The mean age at diagnosis was lower in the BRCA2 mutation breast cancer group than in the non-mutation breast cancer group (38.91 versus 41.94 years, p = 0.016). BRCA2 mutation breast cancers were more likely to be lymph node-positive than non-mutation breast cancers (73.0% versus 56.6%, p = 0.037). The pathological grade was higher in 47.1% of BRCA2 mutation breast cancers than in 29.6% of non-mutation breast cancers ( p = 0.014). The proportions of patients with BRCA2 mutations who developed contralateral breast cancer (19.2% versus 8.8%, p = 0.004), breast cancer in the family (53.8% versus 38.3%, p = 0.009) and ovarian cancer in the family (7.6% versus 2.4%, p = 0.022) were higher than those of patients without the mutation. The median follow-up time was 92.78 months. Multivariate analysis showed that BRCA2 mutation was not associated with poorer iDFS [hazard ratio = 0.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.64–1.27, p = 0.56] and poorer distant relapse-free survival (DRFS) (hazard ratio = 1.09, 95% CI = 0.61–1.93, p = 0.76). There was no significant difference between the two groups with regard to metastatic patterns in the advanced disease setting. In the first-line metastatic breast cancer setting, PFS1 expression was broadly similar between the two groups irrespective of chemotherapy or endocrine therapy. Conclusion: HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer with BRCA2 mutations differs from those without mutations in clinical behaviour and reflects more aggressive tumour behaviour. Our results indicate that BRCA2 mutations have no significant effect on the survival of Chinese women with HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer. Keywords , , breast cancer , HER2-negative , hormone receptor-positive , metastatic breast cancer , prognosis

Background: BRCA2 plays a key role in homologous recombination. However, information regarding its mutations in Chinese patients with breast cancer remains limited. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the clinicopathological characteristics of BRCA2 mutation breast cancer and explore the mutation's effect on hormone receptor (HR)-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer survival in China. Design: This hospital-based cohort study prospectively included 629 women with breast cancer diagnosed from 2008 to 2023 at Zhejiang Cancer Hospital in China. Methods: We compared the clinicopathological characteristics and metastatic patterns and analysed the invasive disease-free survival (iDFS), distant relapse-free survival (DRFS) and first-line progression-free survival (PFS1) of patients with HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer according to BRCA2 mutations. Results: Among the 629 patients, 78 had BRCA2 mutations (12.4%) and 551 did not (87.6%). The mean age at diagnosis was lower in the BRCA2 mutation breast cancer group than in the non-mutation breast cancer group (38.91 versus 41.94 years, p = 0.016). BRCA2 mutation breast cancers were more likely to be lymph node-positive than non-mutation breast cancers (73.0% versus 56.6%, p = 0.037). The pathological grade was higher in 47.1% of BRCA2 mutation breast cancers than in 29.6% of non-mutation breast cancers (p = 0.014). The proportions of patients with BRCA2 mutations who developed contralateral breast cancer (19.2% versus 8.8%, p = 0.004), breast cancer in the family (53.8% versus 38.3%, p = 0.009) and ovarian cancer in the family (7.6% versus 2.4%, p = 0.022) were higher than those of patients without the mutation. The median follow-up time was 92.78 months. Multivariate analysis showed that BRCA2 mutation was not associated with poorer iDFS [hazard ratio = 0.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.64-1.27, p = 0.56] and poorer distant relapse-free survival (DRFS) (hazard ratio = 1.09, 95% CI = 0.61-1.93, p = 0.76). There was no significant difference between the two groups with regard to metastatic patterns in the advanced disease setting. In the first-line metastatic breast cancer setting, PFS1 expression was broadly similar between the two groups irrespective of chemotherapy or endocrine therapy. Conclusion: HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer with BRCA2 mutations differs from those without mutations in clinical behaviour and reflects more aggressive tumour behaviour. Our results indicate that BRCA2 mutations have no significant effect on the survival of Chinese women with HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.

Theranostic nanoplatforms for combination tumor therapy have gained lots of attention recently due to the optimized therapeutic efficiency and simultaneous diagnosis performance. Herein, a novel tumor microenvironment (TME)-responsive core-shell tecto dendrimer (CSTD) was assembled by phenylboronic acid- and mannose-modified poly(amidoamine) dendrimers via the phenylboronic ester bonds that are responsive to low pH and reactive oxygen species (ROS), and efficiently loaded with copper ions and chemotherapeutic drug disulfiram (DSF) for tumor-targeted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and cuproptosis-promoted chemo-chemodynamic therapy. The formed CSTD-Cu(II)@DSF could be specifically taken up by MCF-7 breast cancer cells, accumulated to the tumor model after circulation, and released drugs in response to the weakly acidic TME with overexpressed ROS. The enriched intracellular Cu(II) ions could induce the oligomerization of lipoylated proteins and proteotoxic stress for cuproptosis, and lipid peroxidation for chemodynamic therapy as well. Moreover, the CSTD-Cu(II)@DSF could cause the dysfunction of mitochondria and arrest the cell cycle at the G2/M phase, leading to enhanced DSF-mediated cell apoptosis. As a result, CSTD-Cu(II)@DSF could effectively inhibit the growth of MCF-7 tumors by a combination therapy strategy integrating chemotherapy with cuproptosis and chemodynamic therapy. Lastly, the CSTD-Cu(II)@DSF also displays Cu(II)-associated r1 relaxivity, allowing for T1-weighted real-time MR imaging of tumors in vivo. The developed tumor-targeted and TME-responsive CSTD-based nanomedicine formulation may be developed for accurate diagnosis and synergistic treatment of other cancer types. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Constructing an effective nanoplatform for the combination of therapeutic effects and real-time tumor imaging remains a challenge. In this study, we reported for the first time an all-in-one tumor-targeted and tumor microenvironment (TME) responsive nanoplatform based on core-shell tecto dendrimer (CSTD) for the cuproptosis-promoted chemo-chemodynamic therapy and enhanced MR imaging. The efficient loading, selective tumor-targeting, and TME-responsive release of Cu(II) and disulfiram could enhance the intracellular accumulation of drugs, induce cuproptosis of cancer cells, and amplify the synergistic chemo-chemodynamic therapeutic effect, resulting in enhanced MR imaging and accelerated tumor eradication. This study sheds new light on the development of theranostic nanoplatforms for early accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of cancers.

Background: Identifying the high recurrence group of patients with early-stage papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the greatest challenge in the management of this disease. It has been noted that B-type Rafkinase (BRAF) V600E mutation and programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) are associated in PTC and highly expressed in PTC, correlating in PTC as potential prognostic biomarkers. However, whether they can be used to predict the aggressiveness and recurrence of early PTC remains unclear. Methods: Clinicopathological data of 137 patients with early PTC [tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage I-II] who underwent surgery in Zhejiang Cancer Hospital between 2008 and 2010 were retrospectively analyzed. BRAF(V600E) mutation and PD-L1 was detected by immunohistochemistry. The median follow-up time was 136 months (interquartile range 5.8). The presence of tumor confirmed by imaging or pathology or lymph node metastasis was considered as tumor recurrence. The association of both alone and in combination with clinicopathological features and recurrence was statistically analyzed respectively. The risk of recurrence was assessed using Cox regression models. Results: Most of the 137 early PTC were female (78.1%). The mean age was 43.2 +/- 12.1 years. The median tumor size was 1.4 cm; 14 patients developed recurrence during follow-up period; 56 patients (40.9%) were detected positive for BRAF(V600E) mutation; 76 patients (55.5%) were detected positive for PD-L1. Patients with both BRAF(V600E) mutation and PD-L1 expression had larger tumors (P=0.038), were more likely to have extrathyroidal invasion (P=0.045), and had a lower rate of cervical lymph node metastasis (P=0.046). The recurrence rate was 17.5% (7/40) in patients with BRAF(V600E) mutation and PD-L1 double expression compared to 8.9% (4/45) in patients with BRAF(V600E) mutation and PD-L1 double negative [hazard ratio (HR) =1.267; 95% CI: 0.841-1.909; P=0.257]. Survival curves showed flatter recurrence-free survival (RFS) curves in positive BRAF(V600E) mutation only and PD-L1 expression only, whereas decreased sharply in positive expression of both BRAF(V600E) mutation and PD-L1; however, the differences were not significant (P>0.05). Conclusions: The combination of BRAF(V600E) mutation and PD-L1 to identify group at higher risk of recurrence in early PTC has insufficient clinical evidence and should be used with caution in the clinical management of PTC.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and is a serious disruption to normal life. Monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) is an important target for the treatment of AD. In this study, machine learning approaches were applied to investigate the identification model of MAO-B inhibitors. The results showed that the identification model for MAO-B inhibitors with K-nearest neighbor(KNN) algorithm had a prediction accuracy of 94.1% and 88.0% for the 10-fold cross-validation test and the independent test set, respectively. Secondly, a quantitative activity prediction model for MAO-B was investigated with the Topomer CoMFA model. Two separate cutting mode approaches were used to predict the activity of MAO-B inhibitors. The results showed that the cut model with q2 = 0.612 (cross-validated correlation coefficient) and r2 = 0.824 (non-cross-validated correlation coefficient) were determined for the training and test sets, respectively. In addition, molecular docking was employed to analyze the interaction between MAO-B and inhibitors. Finally, based on our proposed prediction model, 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)propan-1-one (LB) was predicted as a potential MAO-B inhibitor and was validated by a multi-spectroscopic approach including fluorescence spectra and ultraviolet spectrophotometry.

Background:Nuclear Paraspeckle Assembly Transcript 1 (NEAT1) is commonly considered an oncogene in various cancers. The long noncoding RNA NEAT1 has been reported to be overexpressed in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the exact role of NEAT1 in CRC remains unknown. Our research aimed to explore the function of NEAT1 in the tumorigenesis and the development of CRC.Methods:Real-time quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) was used to detect the NEAT1, miR-216b, and YIN-YANG-1 (YY1) mRNA levels in CRC tissues and cells, then immunohistochemistry (IHC) was used to detect the expression of YY1 in CRC tissues. Luciferase reporter, qPCR, western blot, and DNA pulldown assays were conducted to study the relationships between NEAT1, miR-216b, and YY1. Flow cytometry analysis was performed for cell cycle and apoptosis analyses, and a colony formation assay was performed to test cell proliferation. Transwell assays were performed to detect cell invasion and migration.Results:The NEAT1 expression was significantly upregulated in CRC tissues compared with its expression in normal tissues, and downregulation of NEAT1 suppressed the proliferation, migration, and invasion of CRC cells. Moreover, we found NEAT1 decreased the miR-216b level directly, and the suppression of miR-216b could inhibit the function of downstream YY1. However, overexpression of YY1 accelerated CRC cell proliferation, migration, and invasion.Conclusion:Our results indicated that NEAT1 acted as an oncogene in CRC and promoted the progression of CRC by directly sponging miR-216 b expression to activate the expression of YY1. The NEAT1/miR-216b/YY1 axis may be a novel therapeutic target for CRC.

Abstract Purpose To evaluate the role of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). Methods Between February 2012 and February 2018, 103 patients with LARC treated by neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (neoCRT) and total mesorectal excision (TME) were included. PD-L1, mTOR and p-mTOR of pair-matched pre-neoCRT biopsies and post-neoCRT surgical tissue were evaluated by immunohistochemistry. Results The mean combined positive score (CPS), tumor proportion score (TPS) and immune cell score (IC) of pre-neoCRT were 2.24 (0–70), 1.87 (0–70) and 0.67 (0–10), respectively. The mean CPS, TPS and IC of post-neoCRT were 2.19 (0–80), 1.38 (0–80) and 1.60 (0–20), respectively. Significant difference was observed in terms of IC between pre-neoCRT and post-neoCRT (p = 0.010). The 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) rate of the whole group was 62.4%. Multivariate analysis by Cox model indicated that pre-neoCRT TPS [hazard ratio (HR) 1.052, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.020–1.086, p = 0.001] and post-neoCRT CPS (HR 0.733, 95% CI 0.555–0.967, p = 0.028) were associated with DFS. In the 89 patients without pathological complete response, p-mTOR and IC were upregulated after neoCRT. Conclusions For patients with LARC treated by neoCRT and TME, p-mTOR and IC were upregulated after neoCRT. Pre-neoCRT TPS and post-neoCRT CPS were independent prognostic predictors of DFS.

目的 探讨直肠癌患者PANDAR mRNA表达与临床病理特征及预后的关系.方法 选取2015年1月-2016年12月在中国科学院大学附属肿瘤医院接受直肠癌根治术的120例患者为研究对象,比较直肠癌组织与癌旁正常组织中PAN-DAR mRNA表达水平,以及直肠癌组织PANDAR mRNA高、低表达患者临床病理特征及预后,采用多因素logistic回归分析直肠癌患者PANDAR mRNA表达的影响因素.结果 直肠癌组织中PANDAR mRNA表达水平明显高于癌旁正常组织(P＜0.05).PANDAR mRNA高表达(表达水平＞5.25)65例,低表达(表达水平≤5.25)55例.直肠癌组织PANDAR mRNA高、低表达患者在远处转移、淋巴结转移、肿瘤浸润深度、MRI-T分期、MRI-N分期等方面比较,差异均有统计学意义(均P＜0.05);在性别、年龄、肿瘤直径、肿瘤组织分化、MRI-环周切缘状态等方面比较,差异均无统计学意义(均P＞0.05).MRI-T分期(OR=6.071,95％CI:1.281～28.783,P＜0.05)、MRI-N分期(OR=12.481,95％CI:2.046～76.148,P＜0.05)是直肠癌患者PANDAR mRNA表达的独立影响因素.术后随访48个月,PANDAR mRNA低表达患者4年总体生存率明显高于PANDAR mRNA高表达者,差异有统计学意义(39.2％比19.8％,P＜0.05).结论 PANDAR在直肠癌组织中呈高表达,与MRI-T分期、MRI-N分期等临床病理特征及预后相关.

BACKGROUND:Immune checkpoint inhibitors play a vital role in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) immunotherapy. A recent study showed that chemokine-like factor (CKLF)-like MARVEL transmembrane domain containing 6 (CMTM6) has a crucial role in programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) stability. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between CMTM6 and PD-L1 in TNBC and the association with clinical characteristics.METHODS:A total of 143 patients, including 75 with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-driven breast cancer and 68 with TNBC, were included in this study. In 83 paired primary breast cancers (PBCs) and metastatic breast cancers (MBC) comprising 45 HER2-driven breast cancers and 38 TNBC, CMTM6 and PD-L1 were detected based on immunohistochemistry (IHC) with FFPE tissues. Another 60 PBCs comprising 30 HER2-driven breast cancers and 30 TNBC in order to detect CMTM6 and PD-L1 mRNA expressions based on real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using frozen tissues. Furthermore, 153 patients comprising 30 TNBC and 123 HER2-driven breast cancer based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database were used to confirm the difference mRNA expression.RESULTS:The expression of CMTM6 in patients with TNBC was significantly higher than in those with HER2-driven PBC (IHC, P=0.036, mRNA, P=0.036, TCGA dataset, P=0.039). CMTM6 was correlated with PD-L1 based on IHC in triple-negative MBC (P=0.004); the same result was found based on mRNA data in triple- negative PBC (P=0.021). Moreover, a high expression of CMTM6 in TNBC was associated with poor progression-free survival (PFS) (P=0.030, 95% CI: 1.08-4.57, HR =2.22). After multiple Cox regression analysis, CMTM6 in TNBC emerged as an independent risk factor for PFS (P=0.027, 95% CI: 1.11-5.20, HR =2.40). The expression of PD-L1 was negatively correlated with lymph node metastasis (P=0.026) and was not associated with PFS.CONCLUSIONS:The expression of CMTM6 was higher in TNBC than in HER2-driven breast cancer. In TNBC, CMTM6 was correlated with PD-L1 expression, and potentially could be used as an independent risk factor for predicting PFS.

目的 探讨成纤维细胞生长因子受体4(FGFR4)在膀胱肌层浸润性尿路上皮癌(MIBUC)中的表达及意义.方法 采用免疫组化EnVision两步法以及Western blot方法检测50例MIBUC组织及其配对癌旁正常膀胱黏膜组织中FGFR4蛋白的表达,并分析其与MIBUC病理及预后的关系.结果(1)MIBUC组织中FGFT4蛋白表达高于癌旁正常膀胱黏膜组织(P<0.05);(2)FGFR4阳性表达与神经侵犯、淋巴结转移、肿瘤T分期有关(P<0.05),与患者的年龄、性别、肿瘤大小、脉管侵犯和组织学分级无明显关系(P>0.05);(3)FGFR4的表达上调可导致β-catenin异常表达.结论(1)FGFR4蛋白在MIBUC组织中呈高表达,其在MIBUC发生、发展中起重要作用;(2)β-catenin参与了上皮间质转化(EMT)的过程;(3)FGFR4蛋白阴性表达者预后好于阳性表达者,可作为临床上MIBUC预后的评价指标.