2013
An insulin-like growth factor-II intronic variant affects local DNA conformation and ovarian cancer survival
Lu L, Risch E, Deng Q, Biglia N, Picardo E, Katsaros D, Yu H. An insulin-like growth factor-II intronic variant affects local DNA conformation and ovarian cancer survival. Carcinogenesis 2013, 34: 2024-2030. PMID: 23677070, DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgt168.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInsulin-like growth factor IIIGF-II expressionPatient survivalGrowth factor IIPresence of carboplatinChemotherapy responseOvarian cancerCox proportional hazards regression modelKaplan-Meier survival curvesProportional hazards regression modelsFactor IIOvarian cancer tissue samplesIGF-II genotypeAdjusted hazard ratioOvarian cancer survivalHazards regression modelsCommercial enzyme-linked immunosorbentQuantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reactionReverse transcription-polymerase chain reactionOvarian cancer developmentTranscription-polymerase chain reactionCancer tissue samplesEnzyme-linked immunosorbentHazard ratioSNP genotyping assays
2009
Pluripotent factor lin-28 and its homologue lin-28b in epithelial ovarian cancer and their associations with disease outcomes and expression of let-7a and IGF-II
Lu L, Katsaros D, Shaverdashvili K, Qian B, Wu Y, de la Longrais IA, Preti M, Menato G, Yu H. Pluripotent factor lin-28 and its homologue lin-28b in epithelial ovarian cancer and their associations with disease outcomes and expression of let-7a and IGF-II. European Journal Of Cancer 2009, 45: 2212-2218. PMID: 19477633, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2009.05.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEpithelial ovarian cancerIGF-II expressionIGF-IIOvarian cancerPrimary epithelial ovarian cancerInsulin-like growth factor IIUnfavourable prognostic markerOvarian cancer progressionPotential therapeutic targetLin-28BGrowth factor IIStem cellsIGFBP-3Overall survivalDisease progressionPrognostic markerDisease outcomeDisease featuresTherapeutic targetTumor growthTumor samplesFactor IICancer treatmentCancer progressionGrowth factor