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    Evaluation of the relationship between serum ghrelin levels and cancer cachexia in patients with locally advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy
    (WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS, 2020-01-01) Uysal, Pelin; Afsar, Cigdem Usul; Sozer, Volkan; Inanc, Berrin; Agaoglu, Fulya; Gural, Zeynep; Fazlioglu, Nevin Gural; Cuhadaroglu, Caglar; Uzun, Hafize
    Background: Ghrelin plays a role in mechanisms related to cancer progression - including cell proliferation, invasion and migration, and resistance to apoptosis in the cell lines from several cancers. We investigated the role of ghrelin levels in cancer cachexia-anorexia in patients with locally advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with chemoradiotherapy (CRT). Materials and Methods: This study involved 84 NSCLC patients who had received concomitant CRT. Blood ghrelin levels were compared before and 3 months after CRT. Meanwhile, changes in body weight of the patients were also investigated with changes in ghrelin levels before and after CRT. Results: Ghrelin levels were significantly decreased in line with changes in patients' weights in patients receiving CRT (P < 0.001). Serum albumin levels and inflammatory-nutritional index were significantly decreased after radiotherapy (RT) (3.01 0.40 g/dL, 0.38 +/- 0.20) when compared with its baseline levels (3.40 +/- 0.55 g/dL,P < 0.001
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    The Effects of Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy on Survival in Patients with Primary Laryngeal Cancer with Close Surgical Margins and Positive Surgical Margins
    (KARE PUBL, 2020-01-01) Inanc, Berrin; Inanc, Kubilay; Bilici, Suat; Cakir, Mustafa; Yigit, Ozgur
    OBJECTIVE The gold standard treatment for squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx is a resection of the primary tumour with negative surgical margins. In this study, we retrospectively investigated the effects of adjuvant concurrent chemoradiation on the survival rates of laryngeal cancer with close surgery margins and patients with positive surgery margin. METHODS A total of 40 patients treated with concurrent chemoradiation were included in this study. All of these patients had surgery for laryngeal cancer and had received 66 Gy (2Gy/fr) of radiotherapy and concurrent weekly cisplatin. Patients were stratified into two groups according to surgical margin status. Members of group 1 had a positive surgery margin