Retraction: “Long noncoding RNA ZFPM2‐AS1 is involved in lung adenocarcinoma via miR‐511‐3p/AFF4 pathway,” by Juan Li, Jun Ge, Ye Yang, Bin Liu, Min Zheng, and Rui Shi, J Cell Biochem. 2020; ...2534‐2542: The above article, published online on November 6, 2019, in Wiley Online Library (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.29476) has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Editor in Chief, Prof. Dr. Christian Behl, and Wiley Periodicals LLC.The retraction has been agreed after the authors stated that unintentional errors occurred during the research process, and the experimental results cannot be verified. Thus, the conclusions are considered to be invalid. The authors were not available for a final confirmation of the retraction.
Both mesonephric adenocarcinoma (MA) and mesonephric-like adenocarcinoma (MLA) express thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF1). TTF1 is also considered a highly sensitive and specific diagnostic marker ...for primary lung adenocarcinoma (PLA). However, distinguishing PLA from pulmonary metastatic MA/MLA (PMM) based on the expression of TTF1 alone can be difficult. This study aimed to investigate the expression of TTF1 and paired box 8 (PAX8) and assess their value in distinguishing PMM from PLA.
We reviewed the electronic medical records and pathology slides of eight PMM cases. We conducted immunostaining for TTF1 and PAX8 in 6, 8, and 21 cases of primary MA/MLA, PMM, and PLA, respectively.
Two patients with stage IB uterine MLA developed lung metastases at 5 and 57 months after hysterectomy. Solitary pulmonary nodules were suspected to be primary lung cancer in two patients. Compared to primary tumors, all matched PMMs exhibited reduced TTF1 immunoreactivity. In contrast, the majority of PLAs showed uniform and intense TTF1 expression. All except one PMM exhibited diffuse and strong PAX8 expression, while only one PLA showed focal and weak PAX8 expression.
Immunostaining for TTF1 and PAX8 can help in distinguishing PMM from PLA in the diagnosis of pulmonary lesions detected in patients with a history of MA/MLA.
Polymorphous adenocarcinoma (PAC) is a low-grade salivary gland malignancy in contrast to variants with papillary (PAP) or cribriform (CASG) architecture and confers the second most common malignancy ...of minor salivary glands. Our study aimed to identify prognostic factors and to evaluate histomorphological and molecular diagnostic criteria of PACs.
A series of 155 PACs, including 10 PAPs and 12 CASGs from the population-based Cancer Registry of North Rhine-Westphalia (LKR-NRW) and the Hamburg Salivary Gland Reference Centre (HRC) were analyzed.
One fifth of the tumors were located in the major salivary glands and PACS/CASGS invariably lacked p40 expression. Fifty-two percent of PACs showed a PRKD1 E710D mutation. Ordinary PACs had a disease-specific 10-year survival probability of 97% compared to 90% when combining PAPs and CASGs. T-stage at diagnosis was a prognostic factor with 98% for stages T1/T2 versus 75% for T3/T4.
Diagnostic algorithms for the PAC/CASG spectrum of tumors need to be improved and should include molecular markers.
Summary Background Application of the principles of total mesorectal excision to colon cancer by undertaking complete mesocolic excision (CME) has been proposed to improve oncological outcomes. We ...aimed to investigate whether implementation of CME improved disease-free survival compared with conventional colon resection. Methods Data for all patients who underwent elective resection for Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) stage I–III colon adenocarcinomas in the Capital Region of Denmark between June 1, 2008, and Dec 31, 2011, were retrieved for this population-based study. The CME group consisted of patients who underwent CME surgery in a centre validated to perform such surgery; the control group consisted of patients undergoing conventional colon resection in three other hospitals. Data were collected from the Danish Colorectal Cancer Group (DCCG) database and medical charts. Patients were excluded if they had stage IV disease, metachronous colorectal cancer, rectal cancer (≤15 cm from anal verge) in the absence of synchronous colon adenocarcinoma, tumour of the appendix, or R2 resections. Survival data were collected on Nov 13, 2014, from the DCCG database, which is continuously updated by the National Central Office of Civil Registration. Findings The CME group consisted of 364 patients and the non-CME group consisted of 1031 patients. For all patients, 4-year disease-free survival was 85·8% (95% CI 81·4–90·1) after CME and 75·9% (72·2–79·7) after non-CME surgery (log-rank p=0·0010). 4-year disease-free survival for patients with UICC stage I disease in the CME group was 100% compared with 89·8% (83·1–96·6) in the non-CME group (log-rank p=0·046). For patients with UICC stage II disease, 4-year disease-free survival was 91·9% (95% CI 87·2–96·6) in the CME group compared with 77·9% (71·6–84·1) in the non-CME group (log-rank p=0·0033), and for patients with UICC stage III disease, it was 73·5% (63·6–83·5) in the CME group compared with 67·5% (61·8–73·2) in the non-CME group (log-rank p=0·13). Multivariable Cox regression showed that CME surgery was a significant, independent predictive factor for higher disease-free survival for all patients (hazard ratio 0·59, 95% CI 0·42–0·83), and also for patients with UICC stage II (0·44, 0·23–0·86) and stage III disease (0·64, 0·42–1·00). After propensity score matching, disease-free survival was significantly higher after CME, irrespective of UICC stage, with 4-year disease-free survival of 85·8% (95% CI 81·4–90·1) after CME and 73·4% (66·2–80·6) after non-CME (log-rank p=0·0014). Interpretation Our data indicate that CME surgery is associated with better disease-free survival than is conventional colon cancer resection for patients with stage I–III colon adenocarcinoma. Implementation of CME surgery might improve outcomes for patients with colon cancer. Funding Tvergaards Fund and Edgar and Hustru Gilberte Schnohrs Fund.
Lung adenocarcinoma is a heterogeneous group of tumors with a highly variable prognosis, not well predicted by the current pathologic classification system. The 2004 World Health Organization ...classification results in virtually all tumors encountered in clinical practice being allocated to the adenocarcinoma of mixed subtype category. A new classification developed by an international multidisciplinary expert panel sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, American Thoracic Society, and European Respiratory Society, is based on histomorphologic subtype and has recently been validated in a North American series of 514 stage I lung adenocarcinomas. We investigated the relationship between the new classification and patient survival in a series of Australian patients with stages I, II, and III lung adenocarcinoma.
We identified 210 patients from a surgical database who underwent resection of lung adenocarcinoma from 1996 to 2009. Two pathologists, blinded to patient outcome, independently performed histopathologic subtyping according to the new classification. Kaplan-Meier curves were used to calculate 5-year survival for each separate histopathologic subtype/variant. Univariate and multivariate analyses were undertaken to control for validated prognostic factors.
We confirmed that the new subtypes of adenocarcinoma in situ, minimally invasive adenocarcinoma and lepidic-predominant adenocarcinoma had a 5-year survival approaching 100%, whereas micropapillary-predominant and solid with mucin-predominant adenocarcinomas were associated with particularly poor survival. Papillary-predominant and acinar-predominant adenocarcinomas had an intermediate prognosis. This effect persisted after controlling for stage.
Classification of lung adenocarcinoma according to the new International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society classification correlated with 5-year survival. These relationships persisted after controlling for known prognostic patient and tumor characteristics. The new classification has advantages not only for individual patient care but also for better selection and stratification for clinical trials and molecular studies.
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