OBJECTIVE The p21-activated kinase serine/threonine kinases have been outlined as the main cytoskeletal remolding regulators. The same holds true for cell proliferation and motility. They additionally have a part in cellular invasion and carcinogenesis, but the effect of p21-activated kinase 1 expression on the progression of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma remains unclear. Therefore, ...

Solid tumors are characterized by a plethora of epigenetic changes. In particular, patterns methylation of cytosines at the 5-position (5mC) in the context of CpGs are frequently altered in tumors. Recent evidence suggests that 5mC can get converted to 5-hydroxylmethylcytosine (5hmC) in an enzymatic process involving ten eleven translocation (TET) protein family members, and this process appear...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a combination of gemcitabine and nedaplatin therapy among patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma previously treated with two lines of chemotherapy. Between February 2009 and August 2013, 30 patients were treated with gemcitabine and paclitaxel as a second-line chemotherapy. All had received a first-line chemotherapy consisting of ...

BACKGROUND Upper urinary tract cancer is typically diagnosed with urine cytology and imaging techniques. These assays can be limited by sensitivity, specificity, or technical issues making some diagnoses difficult. CASE PRESENTATION A 73-year old man presented to the clinic with a right renal pelvis filling defect that was detected by a CT-scan performed for unrelated reasons. Urine cytology ...

Activation of oncogenes or inactivation of tumor suppressors in urothelium is considered critical for development of urothelial cancer. Here we report cloning of the urothelium specific promoter uroplakin-II (UPKII) and generation of transgenic mice in which expression of SV40 large T antigen is driven by UPKII promoter. Inactivation of tumor suppressor p53 and pRB in urothelium by SV40 T antig...

Several small single-center studies have reported a prognostic role for Ki-67 labeling index in advanced urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder. To investigate whether Ki-67 was a useful biomarker of oncological outcome after radical cystectomy for urothelial carcinoma, we assessed its expression in tumor tissue from 713 patients treated with radical cystectomy and bilateral lymphadenectom...

DIAGNOSIS: A. All that is papillary in the bladder is not papillary urothelial neoplasia: i. Diagnostic pitfalls: papillary hyperplasia, nephrogenic adenoma, fibroepithelial polyp and papillary/polypoid cystitis ii. Artifacts: pseudopapillary folds and avulsed urothelium B. All urothelial proliferations that expand the lamina propria are not invasive carcinoma: i. Diagnostic pitfalls: florid vo...

PAX8 is a transcription factor with a role in ontogenesis of the urinary tract. The aim of the present investigation was to investigate PAX8 expression in normal bladder and in non-invasive urothelial tumours. Nine cases of normal urothelial mucosa, 2 cases of papillary urothelial neoplasia of low malignant potential, 12 cases of low grade non-invasive papillary urothelial carcinoma and 16 case...

BACKGROUND More effective chemotherapies are urgently needed for bladder cancer, a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. We therefore explored the efficacy of the combination of gemcitabine and AZD7762, a checkpoint kinase 1/2 (CHK1/2) inhibitor, for bladder cancer. METHODS Viability, clonogenicity, cell cycle distribution and apoptosis were assessed in urothelial cancer cell line...