BACKGROUND AIMS Understanding the mechanisms of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression and metastasis is crucial to improve early diagnosis and treatment.

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), real-time quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR), immunoblot, and immunohistochemical analyses were applied to evaluate the TNNT1 expression of human HCC.

Peripheral blood was drawn before and after surgery to detect the inflammatory factors C-reactive protein (CRP), calcitoninogen (PCT), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), gastric function gastrin 17 (G-17), and pepsinogen (PG) I and II.

The operative time, intraoperative bleeding, postoperative ventilation time, length of stay (LOS) and perioperative complication rates were compared between the two groups.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of laparoscopic radical gastrectomy on the inflammation and recovery of gastrointestinal function in elderly patients with advanced gastric cancer (GC).

Peripheral blood was drawn before and after surgery to detect the inflammatory factors C-reactive protein (CRP), calcitoninogen (PCT), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), gastric function gastrin 17 (G-17), and pepsinogen (PG) I and II.

Cox multivariate regression suggested DOI and delay in starting radiation to be significant prognostic factors for disease-free survival (DFS).

METHODS Patients diagnosed with nonmetastatic HNRMS between 2004 and 2015 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database were enrolled in our study.

The receiver operating characteristic curve and decision curve analysis (DCA) demonstrated the novel M-Index based on tumor morphology and rim location outperformed R.E.N.A.L, PADUA, DAP, and C-Index in the prediction of pathological upstaging (area under curve 0.756 vs. 0.728 vs. 0.641 vs. 0.661 vs. 0.743).

METHODS Patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) who underwent subtotal esophagectomy at 85 authorized institutes were retrospectively reviewed from 2010 to 2015.