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Aim: Stratification of colon cancer (CC) of patients with stage II and III for risk of relapse is still needed especially to drive adjuvant therapy administration. Our study evaluates the prognostic performance of two known biomarkers, CDX2 and CD3, standalone or their combined information in stage II and III CC.
Patients And Methods: CDX2 and CD3 expression was evaluated in Prodige-13 study gathering 443 stage II and 398 stage III primary CC on whole slide colectomy. We developed for this study an H-score to quantify CDX2 expression and used our artificial intelligence (AI)-guided tissue analysis ColoClass to detect CD3 in tumour core and invasive margin. Association between biomarkers and relapse-free survival was investigated.
Results: Univariate analysis showed that the combined variable CD3-TC and CD3-IM was associated with prognosis in both stage II and stage III. CDX2, on the contrary, was associated with prognosis only in stage III. We subsequently associated CDX2 and combined immune parameters only in stage III. This multivariate analysis allowed us to distinguish a proportion of stage III CC harbouring a high CDX2 expression and a high immune infiltration with a particularly good prognosis compared to their counterpart.
Conclusion: This study validated the prognostic role of CDX2 and CD3 evaluated with immunohistochemistry procedures in stage III but not in stage II. This association would be conceivable in a routine pathology laboratory and could help oncologist to consider chemotherapy de-escalation for a part of stage III patients.
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Vestn Oftalmol
September 2025
OOO Diagnosticheskij tsentr Zreniye, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Objective: This study evaluated the effect of sequential therapy with different dosages of Mexidol on the stabilization of glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON) in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).
Material And Methods: The study included 80 patients (160 eyes) with stage II and III POAG, randomized into three groups comparable by age, gender, and distribution of glaucoma stage. All patients received sequential therapy with Mexidol (14 days parenterally followed by 90 days orally).
J Thorac Oncol
July 2025
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Introduction: TNM staging systems create prognostic categories by anatomic extent of disease. Whether therapeutically important molecular alterations in NSCLC augment the prognostic information of TNM staging is unclear. To study this, we analyzed molecular data from the ninth edition of the lung cancer staging system.
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September 2025
Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
A subset of rectal cancer (RC), <5%, exhibits mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR); the remaining are classified as proficient (pMMR). Reported evidence on differences between dMMR and pMMR RC is limited. In this nationwide Dutch study, we compared patients with dMMR and pMMR stage II/III RC based on patient and tumor characteristics, treatment patterns, and associated outcomes.
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October 2025
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Institute for Bioelectronic Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research & Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, USA.
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, primarily due to late-stage diagnosis. In this multicenter study, our goal is to identify functional biomarkers that stratify the risk of HCC in patients with cirrhosis (CP) for early diagnosis.
Methods: Five thousand and eight serum proteins (Somascan) were analysed in Cohort A (477 CP, including 125 HCC).
BMJ Public Health
September 2025
School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Background: Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, how meteorological factors and COVID-19 control measures in China impact the transmission dynamics of influenza-like illness (ILI) across age groups remains unclear.
Objective: This study aims to explore the changes in the seasonal ILI epidemics and the effects of meteorological factors across age groups in Jiangsu, China, before the COVID-19 pandemic and after the relaxation of COVID-19 control measures.
Methods: The time-varying reproduction number ( ) and doubling time of ILI were deployed to describe the trend and iteration time of the ILI epidemic, and the effect of Chinese government response to COVID-19 on the ILI epidemic, respectively.