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    Thoracic Cancer: Volume 9, Issue 1

    1-196
    January 2018
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ISSUE INFORMATION

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Issue Information

  • Pages: 1-2
  • First Published: 04 January 2018

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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Risk factors of lymph node metastasis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer ≤ 2 cm in size: A monocentric population-based analysis

Xiyan Yu,  Yanwen Li,  Chunlei Shi,  Baohui Han, 
  • Pages: 3-9
  • First Published: 16 October 2017
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Clinicopathological features and survival of early stage breast cancer in northwest China: A population-based retrospective study of 1287 patients

Shuting Li,  Xiangtang Wang,  Jiao Yang,  Meng Lv,  Xiao Zhang,  Chunli Li,  Lingxiao Zhang,  Yanwei Shen,  Xiaoman Zhang,  Zheling Chen,  Fan Wang,  Xin Wang,  Dan Li,  Min Yi,  Jin Yang, 
  • Pages: 10-18
  • First Published: 04 October 2017
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Survival significance of coexisting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients with early lung cancer after curative surgery

Hisashi Saji,  Tomoyuki Miyazawa,  Hiroki Sakai,  Yusuke Kimura,  Masataka Tsuda,  Yoichi Wakiyama,  Hideki Marushima,  Koji Kojima,  Haruhiko Nakamura, 
  • Pages: 19-24
  • First Published: 04 October 2017
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Tumor suppressive roles of eugenol in human lung cancer cells

Li Fangjun,  Yang Zhijia, 
  • Pages: 25-29
  • First Published: 12 October 2017
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Peanut consumption associated with a reduced risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A case–control study in a high-risk area in China

Yanjie Zhao,  Lin Zhao,  Zhiping Hu,  Jiangping Wu,  Jun Li,  Chenxu Qu,  Yongming He,  Qingkun Song, 
  • Pages: 30-36
  • First Published: 04 October 2017
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Minimally invasive esophagectomy in the lateral-prone position: Experience of 124 cases in a single center

Shaohua Ma,  Tianshen Yan,  Dandan Liu,  Keyi Wang,  Jingdi Wang,  Jintao Song,  Tong Wang,  Wei He,  Jie Bai,  Liang Jin, 
  • Pages: 37-43
  • First Published: 23 October 2017
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Detection of circulating tumor cells using oHSV1-hTERT-GFP in lung cancer

Hongjun Gao,  Wenjing Liu,  Shaoxing Yang,  Wen Zhang,  Xiaoyan Li,  Haifeng Qin,  Weixia Wang,  Changyun Zhao, 
  • Pages: 44-50
  • First Published: 25 October 2017
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Relationship between UGT1A1*27 and UGT1A1*7 polymorphisms and irinotecan-related toxicities in patients with lung cancer

Minoru Fukuda,  Manabu Okumura,  Tomomi Iwakiri,  Kazuhiko Arimori,  Takuya Honda,  Kazuma Kobayashi,  Hiroaki Senju,  Shinnosuke Takemoto,  Takaya Ikeda,  Hiroyuki Yamaguchi,  Katsumi Nakatomi,  Nobuko Matsuo,  Hiroshi Mukae,  Kazuto Ashizawa, 
  • Pages: 51-58
  • First Published: 20 October 2017
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Feasibility and efficiency of concurrent chemoradiotherapy with capecitabine and cisplatin versus radiotherapy alone for elderly patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: Experience of two centers

Fangjie Chen,  Hui Luo,  Ligang Xing,  Ning Liang,  Jian Xie,  Jiandong Zhang, 
  • Pages: 59-65
  • First Published: 12 October 2017
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Detection and analysis of circulating large intergenic non-coding RNA regulator of reprogramming in plasma for breast cancer

Kaijiong Zhang,  Zhenglian Luo,  Yi Zhang,  Yuzhi Wang,  Meng Cui,  Lian Liu,  Li Zhang,  Jinbo Liu, 
  • Pages: 66-74
  • First Published: 01 November 2017
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Learning curve and advantages of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration as a first-line diagnostic and staging procedure

Ching-Kai Lin,  Chao-Lun Lai,  Lih-Yu Chang,  Yueh-Feng Wen,  Chao-Chi Ho, 
  • Pages: 75-82
  • First Published: 30 October 2017
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Enhanced recovery after surgery using uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung cancer: A preliminary study

Haitao Huang,  Haitao Ma,  Shaomu Chen, 
  • Pages: 83-87
  • First Published: 31 October 2017
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Is thymomectomy sufficient for non-myasthenic early stage thymoma patients? A retrospective, single center experience

Aizemaiti Rusidanmu,  Sha Huang,  Xiayi Lv, 
  • Pages: 88-93
  • First Published: 31 October 2017
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Impact of unplanned events on early postoperative results of minimally invasive esophagectomy

Xufeng Guo,  Bo Ye,  Yu Yang,  Yifeng Sun,  Rong Hua,  Xiaobing Zhang,  Teng Mao,  Zhigang Li, 
  • Pages: 94-98
  • First Published: 30 October 2017
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Differences in skeletal muscle loss caused by cytotoxic chemotherapy and molecular targeted therapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Kazutaka Kakinuma,  Hazime Tsuruoka,  Kei Morikawa,  Naoki Furuya,  Takeo Inoue,  Teruomi Miyazawa,  Masamichi Mineshita, 
  • Pages: 99-104
  • First Published: 25 October 2017
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UNBS5162 inhibits the proliferation of human A549 non-small-cell lung cancer cells by promoting apoptosis

Cuicui Liu,  Jiaqiang Xing,  Yujun Gao, 
  • Pages: 105-111
  • First Published: 11 November 2017
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Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts the prognosis of patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with surgery and postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy

Michihito Toda,  Takuma Tsukioka,  Nobuhiro Izumi,  Hiroaki Komatsu,  Satoshi Okada,  Kantaro Hara,  Hikaru Miyamoto,  Ryuichi Ito,  Toshihiko Shibata,  Noritoshi Nishiyama, 
  • Pages: 112-119
  • First Published: 03 November 2017
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Cyclophilin A promotes non-small cell lung cancer metastasis via p38 MAPK

Yinan Guo,  Mei Jiang,  Xiaoting Zhao,  Meng Gu,  Ziyu Wang,  Shaofa Xu,  Wentao Yue, 
  • Pages: 120-128
  • First Published: 07 November 2017
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Histological evolution from primary lung adenocarcinoma harboring EGFR mutation to high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma

Jikai Zhao,  Jinchen Shao,  Ruiying Zhao,  Rong Li,  Keke Yu,  Lei Zhu,  Jie Zhang, 
  • Pages: 129-135
  • First Published: 09 November 2017
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CRTC2 promotes non-small cell lung cancer A549 migration and invasion in vitro

Shaoqing Shi,  Wei Luo,  Rui Zhang,  Chu Wang,  Yuanyuan Zheng,  Yunhua Song,  Rongchun Wang,  Liyan Zhang,  Lihua Zhang,  Weimin Li,  Zhuang Luo, 
  • Pages: 136-141
  • First Published: 03 November 2017
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Pilot study on preventing anastomotic leakage in stapled gastroesophageal anastomosis

Shijie Zhang,  Weiming Huang,  Xiangzheng Liu,  Jian Li, 
  • Pages: 142-145
  • First Published: 11 November 2017
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Association between plasma fibrinogen and survival in patients with small-cell lung carcinoma

Shanshan Fan,  Yin Guan,  Guanfei Zhao,  Guangyu An, 
  • Pages: 146-151
  • First Published: 13 November 2017
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p100 functions as a metastasis activator and is targeted by tumor suppressing microRNA-320a in lung cancer

Aimin Xing,  Li Pan,  Jingzhen Gao, 
  • Pages: 152-158
  • First Published: 21 November 2017

CASE REPORTS

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Concurrent ROS1 gene rearrangement and KRAS mutation in lung adenocarcinoma: A case report and literature review

You-cai Zhu,  Xue-ping Lin,  Xiao-feng Li,  Li-xin Wu,  Hua-fei Chen,  Wen-xian Wang,  Chun-wei Xu,  Jian-fa Shen,  Jian-guo Wei,  Kai-qi Du, 
  • Pages: 159-163
  • First Published: 03 October 2017
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Afatinib treatment of a squamous lung cancer after tumor progression of nivolumab

Yinghua Jin,  Qiuying Jiang,  Tao Xin, 
  • Pages: 164-166
  • First Published: 13 October 2017
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Case report of 18F–fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography imaging of a patient with multiple endocrine gland metastases from small cell lung cancer

Hongguang Zhao,  Chenghe Lin,  Benzheng Jiao,  Ri Sa,  Sen Hou,  Songbai Xu, 
  • Pages: 167-170
  • First Published: 05 October 2017
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Pitfalls in diagnosis with the use of circulating tumor-derived epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in lung cancer harboring pretreatment T790M

Daiki Ogawara,  Hiroshi Soda,  Takayuki Suyama,  Masataka Yoshida,  Tatsuhiko Harada,  Yuichi Fukuda,  Hiroshi Mukae, 
  • Pages: 171-174
  • First Published: 24 October 2017
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Remarkable response of nivolumab-refractory lung cancer to salvage chemotherapy

Daiki Ogawara,  Hiroshi Soda,  Keisuke Iwasaki,  Takayuki Suyama,  Hirokazu Taniguchi,  Yuichi Fukuda,  Hiroshi Mukae, 
  • Pages: 175-180
  • First Published: 24 October 2017
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Detection and monitoring of driver mutations by next-generation sequencing in squamous cell lung cancer patient and possible predictive biomarker of third generation EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Xiaoyan Shen,  Jie Shen,  Hang Zhang,  Yuxin Cheng,  Yang Yang,  Jiahui Gao,  Yu Zhang,  Rutian Li,  Baorui Liu,  Lifeng Wang, 
  • Pages: 181-184
  • First Published: 16 November 2017
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Radiological-pathological correlation of malignant teratoma with liposarcomatous transformation: Proven by repeated transthoracic needle biopsy

Hyo-Jae Lee,  Hyun Ju Seon,  Yoo-Duk Choi, 
  • Pages: 185-188
  • First Published: 06 November 2017
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Different EGFR gene mutations in two patients with synchronous multiple lung cancers: A case report

Hiroki Sakai,  Hisashi Saji,  Hiroyuki Kimura,  Masataka Tsuda,  Yoichi Wakiyama,  Tomoyuki Miyazawa,  Hideki Marushima,  Koji Kojima,  Masahiro Hoshikawa,  Masayuki Takagi,  Haruhiko Nakamura, 
  • Pages: 189-192
  • First Published: 01 November 2017
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Pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma with few PD-1-positive immune cells and regulatory T cells that showed a complete response to nivolumab

Kazuaki Okamura,  Yuichi Fukuda,  Hiroshi Soda,  Daiki Ogawara,  Keisuke Iwasaki,  Shinichiro Fuchi,  Takayuki Suyama,  Masataka Yoshida,  Tatsuhiko Harada,  Minoru Fukuda,  Hiroshi Mukae, 
  • Pages: 193-196
  • First Published: 13 November 2017