1.Study on Benefits of New Rural Cooperative Medical System in Anhui
Yaowang WANG ; Hengqiu XU ; Beihai XIA
Chinese Health Economics 2014;(1):66-67
Objective:By analyzing the benefits of hospitalization and outpatient of New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) in Anhui, to provide suggestions for further improving NCMS. Methods: The peasants in Anhui were surveyed by analyzing relevant data to get and analyze the benefits of peasants under the changes of NCMS. Results: The actual compensation ratio of hospitalization and the actual outpatient compensation ratio are all increased, the actual outpatient compensation ratio also increased, the coverage of benefit has expanded, but the average self-pay costs did not decrease significantly due to increase of medical expenses. Conclusion: To further improve the benefit of the peasants, it needs to broadly spread the policy, strengthen the supervision of medical institutions and implement the Catastrophic Medical Insurance Policy.
2.Study on the ability of New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme to reduce health risk factors in Anhui province
Huazhang CHEN ; Chengzhi CHU ; Hengqiu XU ; Yunsheng KONG
Chinese Journal of Health Policy 2015;8(11):31-35
Objective: To describe the degree of poverty caused by diseases among farmers who have joined New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme( NRCMS) in Anhui province, and analyze the ability of NRCMS to reduce health risk factors in Anhui province, in order to provide suggestions for improving the NRCMS strategy. Methods: This paper randomly selects three counties to conduct comparative analysis on the NRCMS strategic changes from the aspects of registration rates, funding levels and compensation ratios between 2013 and 2014, in order to analyze the ability of NRCMS to reduce health risk factors from the aspects of the rate of poverty caused by diseases, the resolving degree of poverty caused by diseases, the alleviation degree of poverty caused by diseases, etc. Results: The ability of NRCMS to reduce health risk factors in Anhui province has improved between 2013 and 2014 , but the improve-ment is limited. Conclusions:In order to reduce the incidence of poverty caused by diseases among the farmers, gov-ernment should reform the payment methods, control the outflow of patients and improve the multi-level security sys-tem, in order to gradually reduce the poverty caused by diseases among farmers.
3.Genomic Characteristics and the Potential Clinical Implications in Oligometastatic Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer
Rongxin LIAO ; Kehong CHEN ; Jinjin LI ; Hengqiu HE ; Guangming YI ; Mingfeng HUANG ; Rongrong CHEN ; Lu SHEN ; Xiaoyue ZHANG ; Zaicheng XU ; Zhenzhou YANG ; Yuan PENG
Cancer Research and Treatment 2023;55(3):814-831
Purpose:
Oligometastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients have been increasingly regarded as a distinct group that could benefit from local treatment to achieve a better clinical outcome. However, current definitions of oligometastasis are solely numerical, which are imprecise because of ignoring the biological heterogeneity caused by genomic characteristics. Our study aimed to profile the molecular alterations of oligometastatic NSCLC and elucidate its potential difference from polymetastasis.
Materials and Methods:
We performed next-generation sequencing to analyze tumors and paired peripheral blood from 77 oligometastatic and 21 polymetastatic NSCLC patients to reveal their genomic characteristics and assess the genetic heterogeneity.
Results:
We found ERBB2, ALK, MLL4, PIK3CB, and TOP2A were mutated at a significantly lower frequency in oligometastasis compared with polymetastasis. EGFR and KEAP1 alterations were mutually exclusive in oligometastatic group. More importantly, oligometastasis has a unique significant enrichment of apoptosis signaling pathway. In contrast to polymetastasis, a highly enriched COSMIC signature 4 and a special mutational process, COSMIC signature 14, were observed in the oligometastatic cohort. According to OncoKB database, 74.03% of oligometastatic NSCLC patients harbored at least one actionable alteration. The median tumor mutation burden of oligometastasis was 5.00 mutations/Mb, which was significantly associated with smoking, DNA damage repair genes, TP53 mutation, SMARCA4 mutation, LRP1B mutation, ABL1 mutation.
Conclusion
Our results shall help redefine oligometastasis beyond simple lesion enumeration that will ultimately improve the selection of patients with real oligometastatic state and optimize personalized cancer therapy for oligometastatic NSCLC.