Disease relevance of Neoplasm Metastasis

• Reduction in new metastases in breast cancer with adjuvant clodronate treatment [1].
• Treatment of brain metastases of malignant melanoma with temozolomide [2].
• METHODS: We randomly assigned 156 patients at the time of resection of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer to receive six cycles of hepatic arterial infusion with floxuridine and dexamethasone plus intravenous fluorouracil, with or without leucovorin, or six weeks of similar systemic therapy alone [3].
• We report here the identification of a truncating mutation in SRC at codon 531 in 12% of cases of advanced human colon cancer tested and demonstrate that the mutation is activating, transforming, tumorigenic and promotes metastasis [4].
• METHODS: Ninety-eight men who underwent radical prostatectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy and who were found to have nodal metastases were randomly assigned to receive immediate antiandrogen therapy, with either goserelin, a synthetic agonist of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, or bilateral orchiectomy, or to be followed until disease progression [5].

Psychiatry related information on Neoplasm Metastasis

• Cyclin D1 overexpression was significantly associated with tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption, tumor extension, advanced clinical stage, and the presence of lymph node metastases [6].
• A shorter latency period for in vivo tumor formation and abundant spontaneous lung metastases were only seen if nuclear FGF-2-producing cells were injected subcutaneously into nude mice [7].
• In addition, SA levels are slightly increased in cancer, positively correlating with the degree of metastasis, as well as in alcohol abuse, diabetes, chronic renal failure and chronic glomerulonephritis [8].
• Liver metastasis developed in 9 mice of the control group, 3 of the VEGF Ab group, and 4 of the MMC group, but no mice had liver metastasis in the combination therapy group [9].
• The prevalence of opioid administration, other drugs known to cause hallucinations, brain tumours, liver metastases, bone metastases, lung metastases, known renal failure, eye disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, other neurodegenerative disorder, psychiatric disorder and epilepsy were also recorded [10].

High impact information on Neoplasm Metastasis

• However, chemokines and their receptors are also important in dendritic cell maturation (2), B (3), and T (4) cell development, Th1 and Th2 responses, infections, angiogenesis, and tumor growth as well as metastasis (5) [11].
• Like CD81, several tetraspanins are involved in cell adhesion, motility, and metastasis, as well as cell activation and signal transduction [12].
• Role of the major histocompatibility complex class I antigens in tumor growth and metastasis [13].
• She had subsequent local recurrence and lung metastasis, which were surgically excised and successfully treated with additional radiation therapy and chemotherapy (vincristine and actinomycin D) [14].
• We examined human expression data and found that they were consistent with the idea that Sipa1 concentration has a role in metastasis [15].

Chemical compound and disease context of Neoplasm Metastasis

• CONCLUSIONS: Monthly infusions of pamidronate as a supplement to chemotherapy can protect against skeletal complications in women with stage IV breast cancer who have osteolytic bone metastases [16].
• We previously found that a membrane-anchored glycoprotein, RECK, negatively regulates MMP-9 and inhibits tumor invasion and metastasis [17].
• We show that GAAD is NM23-H1, a nucleoside diphosphate kinase implicated in suppression of tumor metastasis, and its specific inhibitor (IGAAD) is SET [18].
• Thromboxane synthase and organ preference for metastases [19].
• After three to five doses of streptozotocin (1.5 per square meter), both stool volume and number and size of hepatic metastases decreased markedly [20].

Biological context of Neoplasm Metastasis

• Overexpression of the RHAMM gene by transfection into fibroblasts is transforming and causes spontaneous metastases in the lung [21].
• Here, we present data supporting the idea that the signal transduction molecule, Sipa1, is a candidate for underlying the metastasis efficiency modifier locus Mtes1 [15].
• In a search for key regulators of metastasis in a murine breast tumor model, we have found that the transcription factor Twist, a master regulator of embryonic morphogenesis, plays an essential role in metastasis [22].
• Images in clinical medicine. Lung cancer presenting as an ankle metastasis [23].
• DAP kinase links the control of apoptosis to metastasis [24].

Anatomical context of Neoplasm Metastasis

• Immunocytochemical analysis revealed the presence of gastrin in all the duodenal tumors and in their lymph-node metastases [25].
• By this approach, two retroviral producer cell lines encoding cytokines (IL-4 and IL-2) directed tumoricidal inflammatory responses to established metastases [26].
• METHODS: Between 1990 and 1995, 302 patients with primary breast cancer and tumor cells in the bone marrow (the presence of which is a risk factor for the development of distant metastases) were randomly assigned to receive clodronate at a dose of 1600 mg per day orally for two years (157 patients) or standard follow-up (145 patients) [1].
• We have previously shown that inhibition of uPA activity of a human tumor-HEp3-results in a drastic reduction of its metastasis in the chick embryo [27].
• Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin (SCC) can progress by stages: sun-damaged epidermis, with individual disordered keratinocytes; actinic keratosis (AK), spontaneously regressing keratinized patches having aberrant cell differentiation and proliferation; carcinoma in situ; SCC and metastasis [28].

Gene context of Neoplasm Metastasis

• Visualization of gastrointestinal tumors and metastases was obtained with radiolabeled VIP [29].
• The finding that Mi2beta exists in a complex containing histone deacetylase and nucleosome remodeling activities suggests a role for chromatin reorganization in cancer metastasis [30].
• Sipa1 is a candidate for underlying the metastasis efficiency modifier locus Mtes1 [15].
• Here we report that the chemokine receptors CXCR4 and CCR7 are highly expressed in human breast cancer cells, malignant breast tumours and metastases [31].
• Here we have determined the crystal structure of the DH and PH domains of the T-lymphoma invasion and metastasis factor 1 (Tiam1) protein in complex with its cognate Rho family G protein, Rac1 [32].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Neoplasm Metastasis

• RESULTS: Distant metastases were detected in 21 patients in the clodronate group and in 42 patients in the control group (P<0.001) [1].
• CONTEXT: In men who develop an elevated serum prostate-specific antigen level (PSA) after having undergone a radical prostatectomy, the natural history of progression to distant metastases and death due to prostate cancer is unknown [33].
• In a double-blind study involving 377 patients, we assessed the value of the serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) assay as an adjunct to the radionuclide liver scan for detection of liver metastases [34].
• Active immunization against the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor flk1 inhibits tumor angiogenesis and metastasis [35].
• Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with the radiolabeled glucose analogue 2-(fluorine-18)-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (F-18 FDG) has been used to visualize primary breast tumors as well as bone and soft-tissue metastases [36].

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