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Trial reportScientific reports2021

Clinical application of thioredoxin reductase as a novel biomarker in liver cancer.

Xuping Wu, Qi Wang, Yousheng Lu, Jinye Zhang, Hanwei Yin, Yongxiang Yi

Open access · goldAbstract readClinical TrialMulticenter Study
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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Xuping WuThe Second Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, 210000, Jiangsu, China.
Qi WangKeaise Center for Clinical Laboratory, Wuhan, China.
Yousheng LuJiangsu Provincial Cancer Hospital and Jiangsu Provincial Cancer Institute, Medical Department of Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Jinye ZhangNantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, China.
Hanwei YinKeaise Center for Clinical Laboratory, Wuhan, China.
Yongxiang YiThe Second Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, 210000, Jiangsu, China. ian0126@126.com.
Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine · CNWuhan Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Diseases · CNJiangsu Cancer Hospital · CNNantong Tumor Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatic cancer is often amenable to surgery, including percutaneous ablation, trans-arterial chemoembolization. However, in metastatic cases, surgery is often not an effective option. Chemotherapy as a conventional clinical method for treatment of malignant diseases may be useful in such cases, but it is likewise not always able to slow or halt progression, therefore novel approaches for treatment of hepatic cancer are needed. Current research suggests that molecular tumor markers (TM) can play a crucial role for diagnosis and prognostic evaluation of malignancies, and TM such as AFP, CEA, CA19-9 have been reported in many malignant diseases. Thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), a type of anti-oxidant biomarker, has become a TM of significant interest. However, little is known about the above TM and TrxR activity in liver cancer. Therefore, this paper aimed to assess these TM with regards to diagnosis and and monitoring treatment efficacy in both primary and metastatic liver cancer. Our results showed TrxR had superior performance for discriminating between liver cancer patients and healthy controls than AFP, CEA, and CA19-9. TrxR also exhibited superior performance for assessing benefits of chemotherapy regardless if patients had PLC or MLC. Meanwhile, due to diagnostic efficiency of unresponsive chemotherapy patients, TrxR also showed a higher activity levels than other general markers in liver metastasis patients. Our results suggest that application of TrxR in combination with other tumor markers may maximize the efficiency of diagnosis and assessment of therapeutic efficiency, and provide new insights for the clinical application of TrxR as a candidate biomarker for liver cancer.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorFemaleHumansLiver NeoplasmsMaleNeoplasm ProteinsRetrospective StudiesThioredoxin-Disulfide ReductaseBiomarkers, TumorNeoplasm ProteinsThioredoxin-Disulfide Reductase

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PMID33727662
PMCPMC7966739
OpenAlexW3137431995

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