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Publication Open Access Changes in 18F-FDG-PET/CT tumor metabolism are not consistent with pathologic complete response in hormone-positive breast cancer(2017-09-01) DEDE, FUAT; KAYA, HANDAN; UĞURLU, MUSTAFA ÜMİT; Kaya S., Aktas B., Tanrikulu E., ÖZTÜRK M. S., DEDE F., KAYA H., Ugurlu U., Ozgen Z., Koca S., Halil S., et al.© 2017 Zerbinis Publications. All rights reserved.Purpose: Current evaluation of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) shows that it could achieve pathological complete response (pCR). The purpose of this study was to assess the consistency of maximum uptake values (SUVmax) changes and pCR in hormone-positive locally advanced breast cancer (LABC). Methods: Ninety hormone-positive LABC patients treated at Marmara University Medical Oncology Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey, between 2009 and 2015 were retrospectively studied. All eligible patients (n=51) received NAC (4-8 cycles) and were evaluated for pCR. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) scan was performed before and after the completion of NAC. The relative changes of SUVmax both in the primary tumor and the axilla were assessed for consistency with pCR. Results: The patient median age was 46 years (range 26-76). The patients 13.7% achieved pCR. Values of >50% (n=40) and 75% SUVmax changes could achieve pCR of 20%. Interestingly, most patients with complete metabolic response did not achieve pCR (81%). The difference of the Ki67 levels before and after NAC, tumor localization, HER-2 positivity, menopausal status, grade of differentiation, lymphovascular and perineural invasion were not associated with pCR. Conclusion: SUVmax changes in later cycles of NAC as commonly practised in oncology clinics were not consistent with pCR (p=1.0). Complete metabolic response may not be associated with pCR in hormone-positive LABC. However, almost 80% of patients had >50% decrease in SUVmax and may still have a chance for conservative surgery and less postoperative morbidity. Therefore, 18F-FDG-PET/CT may still have a role to evaluate the tumor response with a need of larger studies and analysis for cost-effectiveness.Publication Open Access Relationship of PPARG overexpression with prognostic parameters in papillary thyroid carcinoma(2022-02-01) ASYA, ORHAN; YUMUŞAKHUYLU, ALİ CEMAL; BAĞCI ÇULÇİ, PELİN; ŞAHİN, AKIN; OYSU, ÇAĞATAY; KAYA, HANDAN; ASYA O., YUMUŞAKHUYLU A. C., BAĞCI ÇULÇİ P., KAYA H., Gonen A., Gundogdu Y., Muradov T., ŞAHİN A., OYSU Ç.Objectives. PAX8/PPARG chromosomal rearrangement is frequently seen in thyroid cancer, and PPARG overexpression has been shown in the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma, but not in papillary thyroid carcinoma other than the follicular variant. The main aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of PPARG overexpression among papillary thyroid carcinoma and if there were any variants of papillary thyroid carcinoma with PPARG overexpression other than the follicular variant. Methods. Immunohistochemical analysis of PPARG overexpression was performed using a PPARG monoclonal antibody in a series of 111 paraffin-embedded blocks of thyroid tumours. Of the patients in our study, 100 were diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma, 9 with follicular adenoma and 2 with follicular carcinoma. Results. PPARG staining was detected in 19 of the 111 cases. Sixteen patients with PPARG overexpression had papillary thyroid carcinoma and 3 had follicular adenoma. Conclusion. PPARG overexpression was detected mainly in follicular-variant papillary thyroid carcinoma. Vascular invasion, lymphatic invasion, thyroid capsule invasion and lymph node positivity were lower in patients with PPARG overexpression.Publication Open Access Prediction of nipple involvement in breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: Should we rely on breast MRI to preserve the nipple(2023-01-01) UĞURLU, MUSTAFA ÜMİT; BUĞDAYCI, ONUR; AKMERCAN, AHMET; KAYA, HANDAN; AKOĞLU, HALDUN; GÜLLÜOĞLU, MAHMUT BAHADIR; UĞURLU M. Ü., BUĞDAYCI O., AKMERCAN A., KAYA H., AKIN TELLİ T., AKOĞLU H., GÜLLÜOĞLU M. B.Background: Indications for nipple sparing mastectomy (NSM) is extending to post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) setting. Eligibility for NSM with an optimum tumor-nipple distance (TND) after NAC is unclear. We examined predictive factors for nipple tumor involvement in patients undergoing total mastectomy following NAC. Methods: Clinical and pathological data from prospectively collected medical records of women with invasive breast carcinoma, who were undergone NAC and total mastectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy and/or axillary lymph node dissection were analyzed. PreNAC and postNAC magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) views were examined and a cut-off TND value for predicting the negative nipple tumor status was determined. Results: Among 180 women, the final mastectomy specimen analysis revealed that 12 (7%) had nipple involvement as invasive carcinoma. Patients with nipple involvement had more postNAC multifocal/multicentric tumors (p: 0.03), larger tumors on preNAC and postNAC images (p: 0.002 and p 2mm) on preNAC and postNAC images (p < 0.001 and p: 0.01). The best likelihood ratios (LR) belonged to the postNAC positivity of the < 20 mm TND, with a + LR of 3.40, and − LR of 0.11 for nipple involvement. PreNAC positivity of the < 20 mm TND also had a similar − LR of 0.14. Conclusion: A TND-cut-off ≥ 2 cm on preNAC and postNAC MRI was shown to be highly predictive of negative nipple tumor involvement.Publication Open Access Collapsing Glomerulopathy in a Patient with a TRPC6 Mutation Presenting as Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature(2023-01-01) GÖKCE, İBRAHİM; KAYA, MİTHAT; ÇİÇEK DENİZ, NESLİHAN; YILDIZ, NURDAN; KAYA, HANDAN; ALPAY, HARİKA; GÖKCE İ., KAYA M., ÇİÇEK N., Guven S., Ercetin Y., YILDIZ N., KAYA H., ALPAY H.Collapsing glomerulopathy (CG) is a proliferative disease characterized by segmental or global wrinkling of the glomerular basement membrane and the formation of pseudocrescents, whereas focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is characterized by podocytopenia, and focal and segmental sclerosis of the glomeruli. Mutations in NPHS1, NPHS2, WT1, PLCE1, CD2AP, ACTN4, and TRPC6 have been reported in steroid-resistant FSGS patients. The mutations p.R895C and p.R895L in Exon 13 are the only ones in TRPC6 causing CG reported to date. Here, we present the case of a 17-year-old male patient with a collapsing variant of familial FSGS caused by a mutation in TRPC6 (p.R895C) who presented with rapidly progressive (crescentic) and proliferative glomerulonephritis.Publication Open Access Association of Pre-treatment Sarcopenia with Side Effects and Prognosis in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Erlotinib(2022-08-01) DEMİRCAN, NAZIM CAN; ENGÜR, CEREN ÖZGE; AKIN TELLİ, TUĞBA; BAŞOĞLU TÜYLÜ, TUĞBA; ARIKAN, RUKİYE; ÖZGÜVEN, SALİH; DANE, FAYSAL; KAYA, HANDAN; ÖNEŞ, TUNÇ; YUMUK, PERRAN FULDEN; DEMİRCAN N. C. , ENGÜR C. Ö. , AKIN TELLİ T., BAŞOĞLU TÜYLÜ T., Arikan R., Yasar A., Celebi A., Alan O., Isik S., ÖZGÜVEN S., et al.OBJECTIVE We investigated the relationship of baseline sarcopenia with toxicities, treatment response, and survival in patients who had non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation and received erlotinib.METHODS Computed tomography images from PET/CT scans before erlotinib treatment were retrospectively assessed. Skeletal muscle index, calculated as skeletal muscle area at third lumbar vertebra level/square of height, was used to define sarcopenia with < 52.4 cm2/m2 for males and < 38.5 cm2/m2 for females. Cox hazard models were conducted to determine predictors of survival.RESULTS The study included 30 patients, and 11 (36.7%) were sarcopenic. All-grade and Grade 3 toxicities were more frequent in sarcopenic group, although it was statistically insignificant (81.8% vs. 63.2%, p=0.282 for all-grade, and 18.2% vs. 10.5%, p=0.552 for grade 3). Response rates were 63.6% in sarcopenic and 68.4% in non-sarcopenic patients (p=0.789). Median progression-free survival was 7.9 and 9.2 months in sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic cases, respectively (p=0.561). However, median overall survival (OS) of sarcopenic patients was significantly shorter than non-sarcopenic ones (11.8 vs. 30.2 months, p=0.023), and sarcopenia predicted OS independently in multivariate analysis (Hazard ratio=2.63, p=0.029).CONCLUSION Early recognition, treatment, and prevention of sarcopenia may improve long-term survival in EGFRmutant NSCLC patients treated with first-line erlotinib.