1619 results about "Colorectal cancer" patented technology

The present disclosure provides a method for determining whether a mammalian subject having a colorectal cancer belongs to a first or a second group, wherein the prognosis of subjects of the first group is better than the prognosis of subjects of the second group, comprising the steps of: a) evaluating an amount of PODXL protein in at least part of a sample earlier obtained from the subject, and determining a sample value corresponding to the evaluated amount; b) comparing said sample value from step a) with a predetermined reference value; and if said sample value is higher than said reference value, c1) concluding that the subject belongs to said second group; and if said sample value is lower than or equal to said reference value, c2) concluding that the subject belongs to said first group. Related uses, means and a method of treatment are also provided.

A method and composition for treating colorectal cancer is disclosed. The method involves administering to a subject, a therapeutically effective amount of a morpholino antisense compound (i) having a nuclease-resistant backbone, (ii) capable of uptake by target cancer cells in the subject, (iii) containing between 10-40 nucleotide bases, and (iv) having a base sequence effective to hybridize to a region of processed or preprocessed human SNAIL RNA transcript.

This invention relates to novel compounds which are inhibitors of the Rearranged during Transfection (RET) kinase, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation, and to their use in therapy, alone or in combination, for the normalization of gastrointestinal sensitivity, motility and / or secretion and / or abdominal disorders or diseases and / or treatment related to diseases related to RET dysfunction or where modulation of RET activity may have therapeutic benefit including but not limited to all classifications of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) including diarrhea-predominant, constipation-predominant or alternating stool pattern, functional bloating, functional constipation, functional diarrhea, unspecified functional bowel disorder, functional abdominal pain syndrome, chronic idiopathic constipation, functional esophageal disorders, functional gastroduodenal disorders, functional anorectal pain, inflammatory bowel disease, proliferative diseases such as non-small cell lung cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, colorectal cancer, medullary thyroid cancer, follicular thyroid cancer, anaplastic thyroid cancer, papillary thyroid cancer, brain tumors, peritoneal cavity cancer, solid tumors, other lung cancer, head and neck cancer, gliomas, neuroblastomas, Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome and kidney tumors, breast cancer, fallopian tube cancer, ovarian cancer, transitional cell cancer, prostate cancer, cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction, biliary cancer, adenocarcinoma, and any malignancy with increased RET kinase activity.

A method for the analysis of differential expression in colorectal cancer based on the variation in the expression levels of genes encoding for proteins forming part of the condensin complex or associated proteins that occurs in patients with the disease and that can be used as markers for the diagnosis of the cancers, as well as for the prevention and treatment thereof.

The invention relates to a method for simultaneously detecting microsatellite locus stability and genome change on the basis of second generation sequencing, especially an application of the detection method in assisting in diagnosing a colorectal cancer patient and a corresponding kit. According to the method provided by the invention, the sequence analysis for a plurality of samples can be completed at one time; the detection for genome change, such as, gene mutation and chromosome variation, is completed while the detection for the microsatellite state is completed; no additional experimental operation is required; the analysis time and the cost for detecting the patient are greatly saved; compared with PCR electrophoretic MSI detection gold standard, the detection method provided by the invention has the advantages of matching accuracy, high detection speed, lower price and no dependence on a matched normal sample, so that the detection mode is more convenient.

The invention relates to a primer pair and a probe used for noninvasive polygene methylation combination detection for early stage colorectal cancer, and includes the primer pair and the probe used for detecting methylation of genes Spetin9, NDRG4, BMP3, THBD and SDC2 and the primer pair and the probe for internal reference ACTB; the sequences of the primer pair and the probe are represented as the SEQ ID No.1 to the SEQ ID No.18. The invention also provides a kit containing the primer pair and the probe and applications thereof. The application method includes free DNA extraction from a plasma specimen, sulfite conversion, PCR amplification reaction, fluorescent signal detection and result determination. The kit and the method are suitable for methylation detection of the five genes Spetin9, THBD, SDC2, NDRG4 and BMP3 in human peripheral blood; compared with a conventional colorectal cancer diagnosis method, the application method fully utilizes the free DNA extraction from a plasma specimen, the DNA methylation and QPCR associated technologies, thus developing the kit having high sensitivity and specificity. The primer pair, probe and kit are used for performing early stage noninvasive screening to human colorectal cancer.

Provided are previously uncharacterised markers of cancers, for example colorectal cancers, and uses of these as diagnostic and prognostic markers of cancers, and in particular colorectal cancers. The markers are SEQ ID NO: 1—hnRNP-K; SEQ ID NO:2—HMG-1; SEQ ID NO:3—proteasome subunit alpha type 1; SEQ ID NO:4—bifunctional purine biosynthesis protein; SEQ ID NO:5—ST11; SEQ ID NO:6—annex in IV; SEQ ID NO:7—60 kDa heat shock protein; SEQ ID NO:8—T complex protein 1 beta subunit; SEQ ID NO:9—T complex protein 1 epsilon subunit; SEQ ID NO: 10—mortalin; and SEQ ID NO: 11—TER-ATPase. The invention further provides related methods and materials for the use of the markers in therapeutic intervention in colorectal and other cancers e.g. to specifically target neoplastic cells without causing significant toxicity in healthy tissues, and to provide methods for the evaluation of the ability of candidate therapeutic compounds to modulate the biological activity of cancerous cells from the colon, rectum and other tissues.

Medical image data is analysed to produce a biomarker. The data is filtered with a plurality of band-pass filters each having a different bandwidth. A texture parameter is then determined from the filtered data from each filter and the biomarker is determined as at a ratio of the texture parameters. When the biomarker is obtained from a CT image of a liver, it can be predictive of poor survival, disease extent and liver physiology of a patient following resection of colorectal cancer. When obtained from a mammographic image, the biomarker can be indicative of cancer invasion and receptor status within mammographic abnormalities. When obtained from a CT image of a lung nodule, the biomarker can be predictive of tumour stage (or grading) and tumour metabolism of a patient with non-small cell lung carcinoma (lung cancer). When obtained from an MRI image of the brain, the biomarker can be indicative of schizophrenia and / or other brain disorders.

The invention relates to a nanocomposite temperature-sensitive gel and a preparation method and an application thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: coating antitumor active substances with a high molecular polymer serving as a carrier material to obtain nanoparticles; and adding a temperature-sensitive high molecular material to obtain the nanocomposite temperature-sensitive gel. The preparation method disclosed by the invention is simple and convenient, is suitable for large-scale production, and is particularly suitable for preparing medicaments or diagnostic reagents having the characteristics of long cycle, biodegradability, slow release, passive targeting, active targeting, active substance conveying function and tumor resistance. An antitumor medicament prepared with the method disclosed by the invention is suitable for ways such as intravenous injection, intramuscular injection, hypodermic injection, intradermal injection, intratumor injection, tumor-side injection, oral administration or transdermal medicament delivery and the like, is applied to treatment and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, esophageal cancer, prostatic cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer, and has a good application prospect.