Objective:To investigate the correlation between mutations in KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, and PIK3 CA and the clinical characteristics of elderly colorectal cancer(CRC)patients. Methods:Paraffin-embedded tissue samples were obtained from 191 elderly CRC patients who consulted at Huadong Hospital, affiliated to Fudan University, between January 2022 and July 2023.Following deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA)extraction, the amplification refractory mutation system polymerase chain reaction(ARMS-PCR)was employed to detect the mutation profiles of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, and PIK3 CA.Concurrently, serum samples collected prior to radical resection were analyzed for carcinoembryonic antigen(CEA), carbohydrate antigen 19-9(CA19-9), and carbohydrate antigen 72-4(CA72-4)using electrochemical luminescence.A comparative analysis of the clinical characteristics and preoperative serological tumor marker concentrations among patients with different gene mutations was conducted to elucidate their correlation. Results:A total of 191 elderly CRC patients were enrolled in the study, with ages ranging from 60 to 94 years(mean age 72.1±7.8 years), including 112 males.The mutation rate of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, and PIK3 CA, as determined by combined detection, was found to be 49.21%(94/191)among elderly CRC patients. KRAS exhibited the highest mutation rate at 35.08%, with statistically significant differences observed in gender, primary site, degree of differentiation, and neurovascular invasion between patients with and without KRAS mutations( P<0.05 for all comparisons).The BRAF mutation rate was 8.90%, and significant differences in gender, age, primary site, and degree of differentiation were also noted between patients with and without BRAF mutations( P<0.05 for all).The mutation rates for NRAS and PIK3 CA were 2.62% and 5.24%, respectively, with no statistically significant differences in the clinical characteristics of patients across different groups( P>0.05 for all).Additionally, the proportion of patients over the age of 90 in the double mutation group was significantly higher( P<0.01).Significant differences in serum CA19-9 concentrations were observed among the various mutation types( P<0.05). Conclusions:There are notable differences in age, gender, primary site, degree of differentiation, and neurovascular invasion among elderly CRC patients with varying mutation statuses of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, and PIK3 CA.Patients with double mutations exhibited higher concentrations of CA19-9 in preoperative serum.

Objective:To develop a deep learning-based segmentation model MT-UNet to automatically segment bone metastases and benign bone lesions in bone scintigraphy with SPECT/CT.Methods:A total of 93 patients (48 males and 45 females, age 28-84 years) who underwent bone SPECT/CT in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command from June 2023 to December 2023 were enrolled retrospectively in this study, with a total of 184 bone lesions (94 benign lesions and 90 metastatic tumors). The MT-UNet was employed to segment bone lesions in SPECT, CT and SPECT/CT images respectively. Comparative analysis with 8 segmentation models was performed. The training set and validation set were divided by using 5-fold cross-validation and transfer learning was introduced to further enhance the robustness of the model. An additional cohort of 22 patients (15 males and 7 females, age 37-87 years) who received bone SPECT/CT in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command from April 2023 to May 2023 were included, comprising 40 bone lesions (22 benign lesions and 18 metastatic tumors) as the test set of MT-UNet. Segmentation performance of different models was assessed using accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, AUC, intersection over union and Dice similarity coefficient (DSC). Delong test was used to compare the segmentation efficacy among different models in the test set.Results:In the validation set, MT-UNet demonstrated DSC of 0.940, 0.962, and 0.963 for SPECT, CT, and SPECT/CT bone lesion segmentation, respectively, which were outperformed other models. Following transfer learning implementation, the SPECT/CT model′s DSC was improved to 0.984. In the test set, MT-UNet maintained comparable segmentation performance to the validation set, with significant AUC differences among the three models ( Z values: from -15.42 to -9.27, all P<0.01). Compared with conventional image interpretation, MT-UNet-based segmentation reduced physician interpretation time from 164min to 102min. Conclusion:MT-UNet has shown good performance in automatic segmentation of bone metastases and benign bone lesions, and is expected to become an important part of SPECT/CT image intelligent diagnosis system for bone metastases.

Objective:To investigate the correlation between mutations in KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, and PIK3 CA and the clinical characteristics of elderly colorectal cancer(CRC)patients. Methods:Paraffin-embedded tissue samples were obtained from 191 elderly CRC patients who consulted at Huadong Hospital, affiliated to Fudan University, between January 2022 and July 2023.Following deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA)extraction, the amplification refractory mutation system polymerase chain reaction(ARMS-PCR)was employed to detect the mutation profiles of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, and PIK3 CA.Concurrently, serum samples collected prior to radical resection were analyzed for carcinoembryonic antigen(CEA), carbohydrate antigen 19-9(CA19-9), and carbohydrate antigen 72-4(CA72-4)using electrochemical luminescence.A comparative analysis of the clinical characteristics and preoperative serological tumor marker concentrations among patients with different gene mutations was conducted to elucidate their correlation. Results:A total of 191 elderly CRC patients were enrolled in the study, with ages ranging from 60 to 94 years(mean age 72.1±7.8 years), including 112 males.The mutation rate of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, and PIK3 CA, as determined by combined detection, was found to be 49.21%(94/191)among elderly CRC patients. KRAS exhibited the highest mutation rate at 35.08%, with statistically significant differences observed in gender, primary site, degree of differentiation, and neurovascular invasion between patients with and without KRAS mutations( P<0.05 for all comparisons).The BRAF mutation rate was 8.90%, and significant differences in gender, age, primary site, and degree of differentiation were also noted between patients with and without BRAF mutations( P<0.05 for all).The mutation rates for NRAS and PIK3 CA were 2.62% and 5.24%, respectively, with no statistically significant differences in the clinical characteristics of patients across different groups( P>0.05 for all).Additionally, the proportion of patients over the age of 90 in the double mutation group was significantly higher( P<0.01).Significant differences in serum CA19-9 concentrations were observed among the various mutation types( P<0.05). Conclusions:There are notable differences in age, gender, primary site, degree of differentiation, and neurovascular invasion among elderly CRC patients with varying mutation statuses of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, and PIK3 CA.Patients with double mutations exhibited higher concentrations of CA19-9 in preoperative serum.

Objective:To develop a deep learning-based segmentation model MT-UNet to automatically segment bone metastases and benign bone lesions in bone scintigraphy with SPECT/CT.Methods:A total of 93 patients (48 males and 45 females, age 28-84 years) who underwent bone SPECT/CT in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command from June 2023 to December 2023 were enrolled retrospectively in this study, with a total of 184 bone lesions (94 benign lesions and 90 metastatic tumors). The MT-UNet was employed to segment bone lesions in SPECT, CT and SPECT/CT images respectively. Comparative analysis with 8 segmentation models was performed. The training set and validation set were divided by using 5-fold cross-validation and transfer learning was introduced to further enhance the robustness of the model. An additional cohort of 22 patients (15 males and 7 females, age 37-87 years) who received bone SPECT/CT in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command from April 2023 to May 2023 were included, comprising 40 bone lesions (22 benign lesions and 18 metastatic tumors) as the test set of MT-UNet. Segmentation performance of different models was assessed using accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, AUC, intersection over union and Dice similarity coefficient (DSC). Delong test was used to compare the segmentation efficacy among different models in the test set.Results:In the validation set, MT-UNet demonstrated DSC of 0.940, 0.962, and 0.963 for SPECT, CT, and SPECT/CT bone lesion segmentation, respectively, which were outperformed other models. Following transfer learning implementation, the SPECT/CT model′s DSC was improved to 0.984. In the test set, MT-UNet maintained comparable segmentation performance to the validation set, with significant AUC differences among the three models ( Z values: from -15.42 to -9.27, all P<0.01). Compared with conventional image interpretation, MT-UNet-based segmentation reduced physician interpretation time from 164min to 102min. Conclusion:MT-UNet has shown good performance in automatic segmentation of bone metastases and benign bone lesions, and is expected to become an important part of SPECT/CT image intelligent diagnosis system for bone metastases.

Objective:To investigate the mutation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), the expression of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1), cell proliferation-associated antigen (Ki-67) in elderly patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and their correlation with clinical feature such as gender, histological type and TNM stage.Methods:The tissue samples of 340 elderly NSCLC patients with definite histopathological diagnosis were collected from January 2020 to December 2020 in Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, including 195 males and 145 females, age between 68.9±6.0 years. Patients were grouped according to clinical features such as gender, histological type and TNM stage. The expression of EGFR mutation, PD-L1 and Ki-67 were detected by Super-ARMS and immunohistochemistry. The correlation between tnem and clinical features was statistically analyzed, and the correlation between EGFR mutation and PD-L1/Ki-67 expression was further analyzed separately.Results:In elderly NSCLC patients′ tissues, the positive rate of EGFR mutation was 48.53% (165/340). L858R and 19del mutations were the most common types, which were 56.36% (93/165), 30.30% (50/165) respectively. The mutation rate of EGFR was higher in women, lung adenocarcinoma, well-differentiated, and low-stage patients, which were 65.52% (95/145), 53.77% (164/305), 56.75% (143/252), 52.53% (135/257) respectively. In addition, the positive rate of PD-L1 expression was higher in elderly patients with non-adenocarcinoma lung cancer and poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma, which were 37.14% (13/35), 24.53% (13/53) respectively. The negative rate of PD-L1 expression was higher in elderly patients with NSCLC in stage Ⅰ+Ⅱ, no lymph node metastasis and weakly positive Ki-67, which were 89.11% (229/257), 87.63% (248/283), 94.71% (197/208) respectively. Correlation analysis showed that EGFR mutation was negatively correlated with the expression of PD-L1 and Ki-67 (PD-L1: r=-0.22, P<0.001; Ki-67: r=-0.32, P<0.001). Conclusion:There is a negatively correlation between EGFR mutation and the expression of PD-L1 and Ki-67 in elderly NSCLC, suggesting that the combined detection of EGFR mutation and PD-L1 expression could provide the basis for precise targeted therapy for elderly NSCLC patients.

Objective:To study the correlation between circulating tumor cells (CTC) and the degree of pathological invasion, recurrence and metastasis of urothelial carcinoma, and so to explore the clinical value of CTC detection in bladder cancer.Methods:A total of 142 patients with urothelial carcinoma in Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University were enrolled as cancer group from July 2016 to January 2018. According to the degree of tumor invasion, cancer group was divided into the non-muscle-invasive group (49 cases) and the muscle-invasive group(93 cases). In addition, 52 patients with benign urinary tract lesions admitted were selected as the benign group and 56 patients with non-urinary tract diseases and non-tumor as the control group. A total of 3.2 ml of venous anticoagulant blood from each subject was collected. CTC was enriched by negative enrichment using the magnetic beads coated with monoclonal antibody Cluster 45 of differentiation (CD45) to capture and remove white blood cells, and identified by chromosome 8 probe(CEP8) fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technique. CD45-/4′,6′-diamidino-2-phenylindole+/CEP8>2(CD45-/DAPI+/CEP8>2) cells were judged as CTC. SPSS22.0 statistical software was used for statistical analysis.Results:≥2 CTCs/3.2 ml in blood was set as cutoff value. CTC positive rates in bladder cancer group, benign group and control group were 70.42%(100/142), 28.85%(15/52) and 8.93%(5/56), respectively, and there was a significant difference (χ 2=70.496, P=0.000). There was a statistically difference ( U=2 863.5, P=0.011) in the mean count of CTC(2 CTCs/3.2 ml vs 4 CTCs/3.2 ml) between the two groups. The proportion of≥5 CTCs/3.2 ml in the muscle-invasive group was 40.86% (38/93), which was significantly higher than that in the non-muscle-invasive group, 18.37% (9/49) (χ 2=7.330, P=0.007). Cystoscope follow-up of 65 patients treated with transurethral resection of the bladder tumor showed that the recurrence and metastasis rate in patients with≥5 CTCs/3.2 ml was as high as 47.62% (10/21), compared with 11.36% (5/44) of patients with<5 CTCs/3.2 ml (χ 2=10.530, P=0.001). Among 59 patients undergoing radical cystectomy, no significant difference was found in tumor diameter >3 cm, positive surgical margins and positive lymph nodes among all groups according to CTC negative or positive and CTC number ( P>0.05). But the recurrence and metastasis rate of patients with ≥5 CTCs/3.2 ml (59.10%) was significantly higher than that of patients with <5 CTCs/3.2 ml (6/30)(χ 2=8.364, P=0.004). Conclusion:The number of CTC increased with the deepening of tumor invasion; Tumor recurrence and metastasis increased significantly in the patients with ≥5/3.2 ml CTCs in blood.

Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of circulating tumor cells(CTCs) in prostate cancer (Pca) through studying the relationship between CTCs and Gleason scores and pathological TNM stage in Pca patients. Methods A total of 238 patients including 161 Pca patients as cancer group, 35 male patients with benign prostatic diseases as benign group and 42 male with non-prostate disease as control group, who were treated in our hospital from July 2016 to January 2018,were enrolled. Venous blood of every patient was collected and CTCs were enriched and identified by immunocytochemistry CD45 capturing leukocyte and fluorescence in situ hybridization with chromosome 8 (CEP8-FISH). Cells displaying CD45-/DAPI+/CEP8>2 were characterized as CTCs. One-way ANOVA was used to exam the correlations of the number of CTCs with Gleason scores and pathological TNM stage. Results CTCs ≥2 were detected in 74.53％(120/161) of Pca patients and 20.00％(7/35)of benign prostatic diseases patients and 7.14％(3/42)of control group (χ2=79.605,P<0.05). In group Gleason scores 6, the numbers of CTCs were 2.00 ± 2.42, the ratios of CTCs≥5 and tetraploid were 13.33％ (2/15)and 26.67％(4/15) respectively. In 7 scores group, the results were 3.14±2.68,17.72％(14/79) and 34.18％(27/79)respectively;In 8 scores group, the results were 3.57 ± 2.70, 33.33％(7/21)and 42.86％ (9/21)respectively; In 9 scores group, these three results were 4.65±4.41, 43.48％(20/46) and 45.65％(21/46)respectively. The numbers of CTCs in the≤pT2b (20), pT2c(27), pT3a(19), pT3b(16)and≥pT4(12) groups were 2.25±2.45, 3.56±2.79, 4.05±3.47, 4.69±2.12 and 5.17±3.21 respectively. The ratios of CTCs≥5 were 25.00％(5/20), 25.93％(7/27), 26.32％(5/19), 50.00％(8/16) and 58.33％ (7/12)respectively. The proportions of tetraploid were 20.00％(4/20), 25.93％ (7/27), 31.58％(6/19), 50.00％(8/16) and 58.33％(7/12) respectively. There were significant differences between CTC and Gleason scores (F=3.200, P<0.05)and pathological stage (F=2.673, P<0.05). The ratios of CTCs≥5 increased with the increase of Gleason scores (χ2=11.592, P<0.05). Conclusions The detection of CTCs could be used for the differential diagnosis of Pca and benign prostatic disease. There were notable correlations between the numbers of CTCs and Gleason scores and pathological stage in Pca patients, especially between CTCs≥5 and Gleason scores.

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