Objective To investigate the changes of CD4+,CD8+and B cells in peripheral blood of breast cancer patients detected before and after surgery and following chemotherapy and the relationship with clinical prognosis.Methods Seventy-nine pa-tients with breast cancer who were admitted for treatment in the Department of General Surgery,Shanghai Minhang Central Hospital from July 2015 to March 2017 were enrolled for the study.T cell and B cell counts were detected by flow cytometry in the peripheral blood of breast cancer patients and benign breast cancer patients,and differences were analyzed between the patients of the 2 groups.Then,the relationship between T cell and B cell counts detected in the patients before and after surgery and following chemotherapy and those pa -tients with different TNM staging and molecular typing.Results There were statistical differences in CD4+cell counts and TNM stag-ing between the patients with malignant and benign tumors(P<0.05;P<0.05).There were also statistical differences in CD8+cell counts,when comparisons were made between the patients with malignant and benign tumors, before and after surgery and following chemotherapy,and between different age stages(P<0.05;P<0.05).After chemotherapy, there were statistical differences between different TNM stages(P=0.001)and molecular types(P =0.011).Statistical differences could also be seen in B cells between malignant and benign tumors,between before and after chemotherapy as well as between different age stages(P<0.05;P<0.05;P<0.05).After surgery,statistical differences could also be noted between different TNM stages(P =0.026)and molecular types(P =0.022).CD8+and B cells might be prognostic factors, however, the levels of CD8+and B cells were not necessarily independent predictors of survival after breast cancer treatment.Conclusion The levels of B cells, CD4+and CD8+in peripheral blood have a certain value for the diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer patients,for this reason,it is worth further research and may promise fu-ture clinical application.

Metastasis is one of the main complaints of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. After radiotherapy and chemotherapy, residual and recurrent lymph nodes in the neck are still partially seen. Neck dissection is an important salvage treatment to improve survival and life quality. The present review summarizes the distribution of residual and recurrent lymph nodes, the applications of different salvage surgeries and outcomes.

Objective: To analyze the risk factors for metastasis of lymph nodes between sternocleidomastoid and sternohyoid muscle (LNSS) in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Methods: Papillary thyroid cancer patients with clinically positive lateral lymph node metastasis (cN1) who underwent surgery including LNSS dissection between May 1, 2013 and May 31, 2016 at the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center were retrospectively studied. Logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate possible clinicopathological factors related to LNSS metastasis. Results: In 85 patients, 54 patients (63.5%) showed LNSS in their surgical specimen, and 20 patients (23.5%) had pathologically positive LNSS metastasis. Patients with LNSS showed preoperatively higher levels of serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPO-Ab) compared to patients only with fibrofatty tissues between sternocleidomastoid and sternohyoid muscle (P<0.05), and they also displayed a higher proportion of multifocality in ipsilateral thyroid lobe (P<0.05). Multi-factor analysis indicated that LNSS metastasis was correlated with original tumor size (OR=1.819, 95%CI 1.050-3.850, P=0.002) and Level Ⅳ lymph node metastasis (OR=2.190, 95%CI 1.132-2.334, P=0.005). Furthermore, the number of positive LNSS was tightly correlated to that of level Ⅳ lymph node metastasis(P<0.05). Conclusion LNSS metastasis is occult but not quite rare in PTC. Patients with extensive lymph node metastasis in Level Ⅳhave a higher risk for metastasis of LNSS.