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ArticleMolecular therapy oncolytics2020

Promoter Methylation of DNA Repair Genes Predicts Disease-free Survival of Gastric Adenocarcinoma after Adjuvant Radiotherapy.

Ning An, Zhuang Yu, Xin-Jia He, Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Li Yu, Yong-Chun Zhang, Hai-Jun Lu, Xue Yang

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Article in Molecular therapy oncolytics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ning AnDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China.
Zhuang YuDepartment of Medical Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China.
Xin-Jia HeDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China.
Yuan-Yuan ZhaoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China.
Li YuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China.
Yong-Chun ZhangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China.
Hai-Jun LuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China.
Xue YangDepartment of Medical Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China.
Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University · CNQingdao University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relentless debate on postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy in gastric adenocarcinoma (GA) has been lasting for decades. In this study, a new biomarker, named promoter methylation burden of DNA repair genes (RPMB), was established to identify the subgroup of patients who might benefit from adjuvant radiotherapy. Methylation profiles of 397 GA tumor samples were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). RPMB for a patient was defined as the ratio of methylated DNA repair genes to the number of all DNA repair genes. Subgroup analyses in term of overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) indicated that most of the subgroups favored the high-RMPB group. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that overall the patients with high RPMB after R0 resection had a significantly better clinical outcome regarding DFS (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.013, p = 0.042). Additionally, high-RPMB patients, who underwent adjuvant radiotherapy with both ≥T2 tumor and positive lymph nodes, showed superior DFS in comparison with the low-RPMB group (HR = 5.35 × 10

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adjuvant radiotherapydisease-free survivalgastric adenocarcinomapromoter methylation

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