O. R. Khabarov, B. D. Seferov, K. A. Aliev, D. Zima, E. Golubinskaya, E. Zyablitskaya
{"title":"Tumor tissue samples collection for scientific research in morphology and molecular oncology","authors":"O. R. Khabarov, B. D. Seferov, K. A. Aliev, D. Zima, E. Golubinskaya, E. Zyablitskaya","doi":"10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-3","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose of the study. Is to describe the experience of creating a collection of biological images of tumor tissues and biomaterials, which are control samples, for scientific research in morphology and molecular oncology.Materials and methods. We studied the molecular markers of cell cycle regulation, apoptosis, oncogenesis and angiogenesis, the expression of proteins that regulate inflammation and tumor infiltrate cells in biocollections of verified tumors of common localizations: e. g. thyroid cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, prostate adenocarcinoma, endometrioid adenocarcinoma. Also, tissue fragments with normal structure or non-tumor pathology (autoimmune thyroiditis, adenomatous and thyrotoxic goiter, benign formations of the colon, fibrocystic disease of the mammary glands, benign prostatic hyperplasia, endometrial hyperplasia) were used as control samples or comparison groups. The total number of tissue samples is n = 7000.Results. It is reasonable to gather the collection in a pathomorphological laboratory according to the profile of the medical institutions, which has a sufficient volume of incoming target material and specialized morphologists to verify tumors of a given localization. It is necessary to consider the regional and ethnic specifics of the population, which determines the sampling and mutational load. The laboratory must initiate an addition to the informed consent of patients about the possibility of conducting morphological and molecular genetic studies for scientific purposes and publishing their results in a depersonalized form for the development of new elaborations, when signing the contracts with legal entities and individuals and when serving patients within an institution. When working with biocollections, it has to consider having registers of tissue biomaterials of target disorder groups of main localizations with downloading by year from an accessible information system, consider external factors affecting the database (changes in clinical recommendations and classifications, the population of patients served, pandemics and other significant events). The standard of the preanalytical stage, data collection, development of protocols for analytical molecular genetic studies and their evaluation, the utilization of the capabilities of working with reagents for scientific tasks and modeling experiments on laboratory animals are crucial.Conclusion. The formed biocollection made it possible to carry out a number of initiative and funded domestic and international scientific projects at the request of clinicians and fundamental researchers, as well as to improve the quality standards of morphological and molecular genetic oncology diagnostics. Biobanking makes the pathological archive more accessible for review and use, significantly expanding its scientific and practical potential. Scientific and medical research do not conflict and can be used within the same laboratory.","PeriodicalId":510631,"journal":{"name":"Research and Practical Medicine Journal","volume":"328 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140450817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. E. Glukhareva, G. V. Afonin, I. Kolobaev, L. Grivtsova, S. A. Ivanov, A. Kaprin
{"title":"The effect of the relative dose intensity of chemoradiotherapy on the effectiveness of therapy of locally advanced unresectable non-small cell lung cancer","authors":"A. E. Glukhareva, G. V. Afonin, I. Kolobaev, L. Grivtsova, S. A. Ivanov, A. Kaprin","doi":"10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-2","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the study. To estimate the number of patients with the preservation of relative dose intensity (RDI) ≥ 80 % of first-line antitumor therapy in patients with unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and to compare the effectiveness of therapy in groups with optimal and lower RDI.Patients and methods. The study included 30 patients (25 men and 5 women) with locally advanced unresectable NSCLC. The median age was 57 years. The main criterion for inclusion in the study was morphologically verified NSCLC with stage IIIB-IIIC of the disease. All patients underwent simultaneous chemoradiotherapy. According to the histogenesis of the tumor process, patients with a squamous cell variant prevailed.Results. The data obtained from 22 (73.3 %) patients who retained a relative dose intensity of RDI > 80 % demonstrated that given dose intensity is sufficient to achieve a stable antitumor effect. In 8 (26.7 %) cases, however, the RDI was less than 80 %, which affected the effectiveness of the treatment. The median follow-up for overall survival (OS) was 29.2 months, progression-free survival (PFS) was 15.1 months, and local control was 21.9 months. in all patients included in the analysis. The indicators of OS in the second year had an advantage in the group of patients with RDI < 80 % and amounted to 73.3 % compared with 60.5 % in patients with RDI > 80 %. PFS was higher in the group of patients with high dose intensity, in the first year of follow-up it was 75.6 % compared with the group of patients with RDI < 80 % (62.5 %), in the second year of follow-up, PFS was 27.2 % and 20.8 %, respectively. Local control was 90.2 % in the first year in the group of patients with RDI > 80 % and 62.5 % in the group of patients with RDI < 80 %. The second year of follow-up demonstrated the advantage of the group of patients with RDI >80 % in terms of local control and amounted to 48.1 % versus 34.7 %, respectively.Conclusion. The results obtained show that maintaining relative dose intensity at a high level has a positive effect on survival rates and local control of patients with locally advanced unresectable NSCLC. However, there is a cohort of patients who did not receive the planned amount of treatment, due to the high toxicity of simultaneous chemoradiotherapy. It is necessary to develop new approaches to concomitant therapy aimed at reducing the toxicity of the combined treatment and achieving maximum antitumor effect.","PeriodicalId":510631,"journal":{"name":"Research and Practical Medicine Journal","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140451045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. V. Ischenko, N. K. Vinogradova, L. A. Titova, E. M. Tolstykh, S. I. Marks
{"title":"Ultrasound cases of an elongated left lobe of the liver as an anatomical variant","authors":"N. V. Ischenko, N. K. Vinogradova, L. A. Titova, E. M. Tolstykh, S. I. Marks","doi":"10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-7","url":null,"abstract":"The elongated left lobe of the liver (saddle liver, saber liver, beaver tail liver, beaver lobe) is one of the types of variant liver anatomy, characterized by the fact that the left lobe extends far beyond the midline of the body, and can come into contact with the spleen and even go above it. Due to the fact that the elongated left lobe of the liver is more often susceptible to injury and, in some cases, can imitate a subcapsular hematoma of the spleen, it seems important to increase the awareness among doctors of various specialties about the variety of morphological variations in the structure of the liver, in particular about the elongated left lobe of the liver, to unify approaches to the description and establish uniformity of wording to designate this feature of the anatomical structure of the left lobe of the liver, which will reduce the risk of diagnostic errors and errors during surgical interventions, especially in cases of blunt abdominal trauma.The article presents clinical cases with ultrasound examination of 10 patients of different ages (from 1 month to 38 years) and gender with a newly diagnosed anomaly in the structure of the left lobe of the liver, i.e an elongated left lobe. An analysis of national and foreign literature sources containing reports on various morphological variants of the liver structure and the frequency of their occurrence was carried out. Ultrasound signs were proposed to describe the elongated left lobe of the liver. The features of the ultrasound examination technique for the elongated left lobe of the liver in children older than one year are described. The variety of formulations used by different authors when describing this variant of the anatomical structure of the liver was studied.","PeriodicalId":510631,"journal":{"name":"Research and Practical Medicine Journal","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140450175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Ter-Ovanesov, D. M. Yagudaev, A. Gritskevich, A. V. Umyarova, V. A. Bezhenar
{"title":"The organ sparing management of a patient with urachus cancer in conditions of comorbidity","authors":"M. Ter-Ovanesov, D. M. Yagudaev, A. Gritskevich, A. V. Umyarova, V. A. Bezhenar","doi":"10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-6","url":null,"abstract":"Malignant tumors of the urachus are extremely rare. The frequency of urachal malignancy makes 1: 5 000 000 cases, which is 0.35–1.2 % of all the cases of bladder cancer. The small series of observations described in the literature do not allow us to formulate statistically reliable and unambiguously recommended statements about the optimal methods of diagnostics and treatment of this pathology. The diagnosis of urachus diseases is often challenging. This is associated with both the asymptomatic course and the variety of clinical flow of the disease. The treatment strategies are also largely ambiguous and ranging from the defining the indications for surgical treatment to the aggressiveness of surgical intervention. Meanwhile, 20 % of patients with urachal cancer have distant metastases at the time of detection. With everything listed above, (low frequency, little research done and aggressiveness of the flow) it makes every clinical observation of this disease valuable.This article is a clinical observation providing with the information upon the diagnosis, the choice of strategies and surgical treatment of urachal cancer in a patient suffering from multimorbidity. Volumetric formation of the bladder was detected in this patient during additional examination for macrohematuria. Cystoscopy with transurethral resection and subsequent morphological examination verified invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma of the bladder with the growth into the lamina propria and without the signs of vascular and perineural invasion. The patient underwent laparotomy, radical resection of the bladder with extended pelvic lymphadenectomy. The umbilicus, urachus and the bladder wall with the tumor, as well as the adjacent peritoneum, were excised as a single block during the surgical intervention. Morphological examination verified mucinous adenocarcinoma of urachus. The postoperative period was uneventful.There have been no signs of disease progression observed during 10-month follow-up period.","PeriodicalId":510631,"journal":{"name":"Research and Practical Medicine Journal","volume":"86 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140454798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
О. I. Kit, E. Frantsiyants, A. Shikhlyarova, I. V. Neskubina, S. A. Ilchenko
{"title":"Extracellular mitochondria as promising diagnostic agents","authors":"О. I. Kit, E. Frantsiyants, A. Shikhlyarova, I. V. Neskubina, S. A. Ilchenko","doi":"10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-4","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, there is a new concept that says that mitochondria naturally circulate in the blood and this is characteristic of both human and animal bodies. It is believed that circulating mitochondria can easily pass through tissue barriers due to their small size (50–400 nm). The phenomenon of mitochondrial intercellular transfer, which is bidirectional, has been observed in vitro and in vivo, under both physiological and pathophysiological conditions, and among a variety of cells, including malignant tumor cells. Circulating cell-free intact mitochondria are thought to play an active biological and physiological role, as mitochondria are already known to be systemic mediators of intercellular communication, transmitting hereditary and non-hereditary biological components, including MtDN A. Mitochondrial components of cellular origin, including mitochondrial DNA, were detected in the extracellular space. There are about 50,000 times more copies of the mitochondrial genome than the nuclear genome in the blood plasma of healthy people. The researchers confirmed that mitochondrial cell-free DNA (McfDNA) is stable enough for detection and quantification, implying that there are stable structures protecting these DNA molecules. The circulating mitochondrial genome, which is released as a cell-free mitochondrial DNA, is recognized as a new biomarker of mitochondrial stress and signal transduction. McfDNA has become an attractive circulating biomarker because of its potential use in diagnostic programs for various diseases, e. g., diabetes, acute myocardial infarction, and cancer. There is no doubt that detection of circulating mitochondria and their DNA in body fluids opens up a new promising scientific direction in biology and medicine. The article analyzes modern scientific data devoted to proving the existence of extracellular mitochondria, their functions outside the cell and diagnostic value.","PeriodicalId":510631,"journal":{"name":"Research and Practical Medicine Journal","volume":"200 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140454381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. D. Smirnova, G. G. Karmazanovsky, E. Kondratyev, N. Karelskaya, V. Galkin, A. Y. Popov, B. Gurmikov, D. Kalinin
{"title":"Radiomics and radiogenomics in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma","authors":"A. D. Smirnova, G. G. Karmazanovsky, E. Kondratyev, N. Karelskaya, V. Galkin, A. Y. Popov, B. Gurmikov, D. Kalinin","doi":"10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-5","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose of the study. Analytical review and analysis of available literature on texture analysis of computed tomgraphy (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in noninvasive diagnosis of ICC and correlation with molecular genetic features and tumor immunophenotype.Materials and methods. The scientific publications and clinical guidelines in the information- analytical systems PubMed, Scopus for 2012–2022 were carried out using the keywords: \"mri\", \"radiomics\", \"texture analysis\", \"radiogenomics\", \"intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma\", \"molecular\". 49 articles were selected for analysis after excluding studies dealing with technical aspects of radiomics and describing individual clinical observations.Results. The presented review demonstrated the broad possibilities and prospects of application of CT and MRI texture analysis in the study of cholangiocellular cancer, including the first results in the study of molecular features (signatures) of this tumor. Correlation of texture features with the expression of immunotherapy target genes KRAS/NRAS/BRAF as well as IDH1/2 mutation was shown. Texture scores were the predominant independent predictor of microvascular invasion, which was a major independent risk factor for postoperative recurrence.Conclusion. The use of texture analysis undoubtedly demonstrates promising possibilities both in noninvasive assessment of the HCC histological differentiation grade, as well as in differential diagnosis with hepatocellular carcinoma, metastases, and requires further study for systematization and standardization of the obtained data.","PeriodicalId":510631,"journal":{"name":"Research and Practical Medicine Journal","volume":"723 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Y. Muratova, I. Kolobaev, D. Kudryavtsev, E. Smolenov, A. Ryabov, V. Khomyakov, L. Petrov, S. A. Ivanov, A. Kaprin
{"title":"Safety assessment of preventive pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy in combined treatment of gastric cancer: preliminary results","authors":"N. Y. Muratova, I. Kolobaev, D. Kudryavtsev, E. Smolenov, A. Ryabov, V. Khomyakov, L. Petrov, S. A. Ivanov, A. Kaprin","doi":"10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17709/2410-1893-2024-11-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose of the study. Preventive pressurised intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) safety assessment in the combined treatment of gastric cancer (GC).Patients and methods. The study included 48 patients with morphologically confirmed resectable GC and cardio esophageal transition, having at least one criterion that is a predictor of the development of peritoneal carcinomatosis, e. g. tumor spread to the serous layer (≥ T4a), diffuse tumor type, affected regional lymph nodes, large tumor, young age (up to 45 years), subtotally and totally affected stomach. 36 out of those patients received treatment according to the protocol. All patients received 4 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy according to the FLOT scheme, radical surgical treatment in combination with a PIPAC session, 4 cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy according to the FLOT scheme. The safety assessment was carried out according to the classification of surgical complications according to Clavien-D indo and the international scale for toxicity scaling NCI–CTCAE v5.0.Results. Postoperative complications were diagnosed in 25 %, >III grade complications were revealed in 11 % of cases according to the Clavien-D indo classification. The postoperative mortality rate was 0 %.Conclusion. Preventive PIPAC of locally advanced GC and CET in combined treatment is a reproducible and safe method, which is characterized by the absence of an increase in the number of postoperative complications and mortality rate.","PeriodicalId":510631,"journal":{"name":"Research and Practical Medicine Journal","volume":"491 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140454033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}