Meanwhile, inactivation of these genes using Ad-K5cre in basal cells leads to the development of SCLC, thus differentially influencing the lung cancer type developed.
Individual level data analysis was performed on 25,430 patients with NSCLC and 2787 patients with SCLC from 16 studies of the International Lung Cancer Consortium evaluating the association between various BMI variables and lung cancer overall survival, reported as adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) from Cox proportional hazards models and adjusted penalized smoothing spline plots.
Response rate was 39% (43/111).Among respondents, 60% have at least 6 years of work experience following residency; 77% and 71% respectively see > 50 lung cancer and > 11 SCLC cases annually.
The current WHO classification of lung cancer states that a diagnosis of SCLC can be reliably made on routine histological and cytological grounds but immunohistochemistry (IHC) may be required, particularly (1) in cases in which histologic features are equivocal and (2) in cases in which the pathologist wants to increase confidence in diagnosis.
In the stratified analysis by ethnicity, gender, histological types of lung cancer and smoking status, a significant association was found in Asians and smokers, not in Caucasian or mixed population, Male, Female population, lung AC, SCC, SCLC or non-smokers.
The classifier, termed SCLC-specific hub network (SSHN), robustly separates SCLC from other lung cancer types across multiple datasets and multiple platforms, including RNA-seq and shotgun proteomics.
Peripheral blood samples from 21 neuroendocrine lung cancer affected patients (14 SCLC, 6 LC and 1 LCNEC) subjected to scintigraphy with (111)In-DTPA-D-Phe(1)-octreotide (OctreoScan) and 24 healthy blood donors were investigated by RT-qPCR. mRNA levels for SSTR2a, SSTR3 and SSTR5 were measured in peripheral blood samples with a relative quantification method using plasmid dilutions as calibration curves and GAPDH as reference gene.
In all lung cancer specimens, alpha 3 integrin was strongly expressed in ADC, SCC and BAC, but was infrequent in SCLC. alpha 4 integrin was solely expressed in BAC. alpha 5 and beta1 integrins were expressed in all four histological types of lung cancer specimens.
Among histologic types of lung cancer, a weak protective effect was found for both adenocarcinoma (OR = 0.81, CI 0.55-1.19) and SCC (OR = 0.82, CI 0.56-1.21); a stronger and significant effect was found for SCLC (OR = 0.58, CI 0.36-0.95; p = 0.029).
Using single stranded conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis, we screened the PTEN/MMAC1 open reading frame of 53 lung cancer cell line cDNAs for point mutations and found that 3/35 SCLCs and 3/18 NSCLCs contained homozygous amino acid sequence altering mutations.
We studied the cytogenetic and genetic alterations in cell lines derived from three unusual subtypes of lung cancer: including carcinoids, non-small cell lung cancers expressing NE properties (NSCLC-NE) and extrapulmonary small cell cancers (ExPuSC) and compared them with those of SCLC and NSCLC lines.
More recent data using DNA probes specific for the cytogenetic deletion on chromosome 3, previously identified in only SCLC, suggests that this deletion 3p 14-23 is common to most, if not all, cell types of lung cancer.
Two major conclusions have emerged from these studies: (1) considerable heterogeneity exists within a given tumor type (eg, SCLC) in the expression of a given biomarker, and (2) overlap in the expression of biomarkers exists between cells of SCLC and non-SCLC, suggesting a common stem cell for all types lung cancer.