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ArticleOncology letters2019

Upregulation of sphingosine kinase 1 is associated with recurrence and poor prognosis in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Jie Li, Bo Zhang, Yang Bai, Yonghong Liu, Buyong Zhang, Jian Jin

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Article in Oncology letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jie LiThe Fourth Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Cangzhou Central Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei 061000, P.R. China.
Bo ZhangThe Fourth Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Cangzhou Central Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei 061000, P.R. China.
Yang BaiThe Fourth Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Cangzhou Central Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei 061000, P.R. China.
Yonghong LiuThe Fourth Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Cangzhou Central Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei 061000, P.R. China.
Buyong ZhangThe Fourth Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Cangzhou Central Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei 061000, P.R. China.
Jian JinThe Fourth Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Cangzhou Central Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei 061000, P.R. China.
Cangzhou Central Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sphingosine kinase 1 (SPHK1), an ATP-dependent protein, has previously been demonstrated to be upregulated in several types of human cancer and to play an important role in tumor development and progression. However, the role of SPHK1 in predicting long-term prognosis in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) remains unclear. The purpose of the present study was to assess the significance of SPHK1 expression and its associations with clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic outcome in patients with PTC. Immunohistochemistry staining was retrospectively performed to investigate the expression levels of SPHK1 in 92 PTC tumors. Statistical analyses revealed that high levels of SPHK1 expression were associated with tumor size, lymph node metastasis and the Tumor-Node-Metastasis stage. The disease-free survival (DFS) time of patients that exhibited high levels of SPHK1 expression was shorter, whereas patients with lower levels of SPHK1 expression survived longer. Furthermore, multivariate analysis suggested that upregulated SPHK1 was an independent prognostic factor for predicting DFS of patients with PTC. The results of the Cell Counting Kit-8 and invasion assays demonstrated that SPHK1 overexpression significantly enhanced the proliferation and invasion of a PTC cell line, consistent with clinical findings. The results from the present study provide evidence that elevated expression levels of SPHK1 may be involved in the development and progression of PTC, indicating that this protein may act as a potential prognostic marker for patients with this disease.

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papillary thyroid carcinomaprognosissphingosine kinase 1survival

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