>> OKAY, I HOPE YOU ALL HAD A HAPPY THANKSGIVING. SO, OVER THE WEEKEND, I GOT AN E-MAIL FROM KURT HARRIS AND HE HAS AN OBLIGATION AND FOUR BUT HE'S GOING TO BE HERE AT FIVE TO SPEAK TO YOU, SO, OUR FIRST SPEAKER THEN IS GOING TO BE DR. OLAKU FROM NCBI AND MANY OF HAVE YOU GONE TO THE TUMOR BOARDS AND CASE REPORTS AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T DR. OLAKU WILL BE SHOWING SOME PREPORTS FROM TODAY. >> THANK YOU EVERYBODY. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CASE REPORTS TODAY AND AM GOING TO GO BRIEFLY OVER SOME INFORMATION WHAT I LIKE TO ACHIEVE AT THE END OF THIS LECTURE IS TO DESCRIBE SOME OF THE HISTORY OF CASE REPORTS AS IT RELATES TO CANCER, RULES OF CASE REPORTS AND THEN IN BETWEEN DESCRIBE SOME CASE REPORTS. AND OUTLINE SOME PATTERN INFORMATION FOR A GOOD CASE REPORT THIS IS ONE DEFINITION OF CASE REPORTS. IT'S A BRIEF IT'S A BRIEF REPORT DESCRIBING ISOLATED CLINICAL CASE OR A SMALL NUMBER OF CASES. THEY DESCRIBE ALL NEW UNCOMMON DIAGNOSIS, UNUSUAL OUTCOMES OR PROGNOSIS, NEW OR INFREQUENTLY USED THERAPIES AND NOT USUALLY DISCOVERED IN CLINICAL TRIALS. ANY PATIENT THAT GOES THROUGH THE DASHIS HOSPITAL IS A POTENTIAL CASE PREPORT. THAT'S FROM THE MONTE REAL GENERAL HOSPITAL. THERE'S BEEN A HISTORY ABOUT CASE REPORTS OF CANCER AND MILLER WILL DESCRIBE THE CASE REPORT THAT THE FIRST LINE OF EVIDENCE, WHERE EVERYTHING BEGINS SOME OF THE ALIAISON AS REPORTS FROM THE CASE REPORS FROM CANCER TREATMENT CAN BE TRACED BACK FROM RECORDS BACK TO ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MEDICINE OF APPROXIMATELY 600 B. C. THESE RECORDS WERE ONE OF THE FIRST REPORTED IN INCUCURABLE TUMORS OF THE BREAST. THE CASE REPORTS DESCRIBING NEODIAGNOSIS. CASES OF MELANOMA BY EPISODES THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THE FIRST LINE [INDISCERNIBLE] AND CASE REPORTS WERE LETTERED BETWEEN PHYSICIANS AND THAT SUBSIDIARY WENT--SUBSEQUENTLY LED TO THE ORIGINS SWREE TODAY. IT'S FROM HODGKINS FROM THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AND WHICH IS WHAT WE KNOW AS HODGKINS LYMPHOMA TODAY. THE BUCKET DESCRIBED THE TUMOR IN THE JAW OF AN AFRICAN CHILD AND WHAT WE KNOW AS BURKEET'S LYMPHOMA TODAY. AND 1990, HE AND HIS COLLEAGUE DESCRIBE A T-CELL TO LYMPHOMA THAT LED TO MORE RESEARCH IN THAT AREA. THE CASE REPORTS UNUSUAL TREATMENT RESPONSE. CASE REPORTS HAVE BEEN USED TO DESCRIBE UNUSUAL TREATMENT AND RESPONSES AND HIS COLLEAGUES ARE DESCRIBED INTERESTING CLINICAL RESPONSE IN GLOBA NEMIA AND SO IN THE FIELD IT'S NAME THE I HAVE AG RA. --VIAGRA. NOW THIS IS A CASE OF AN 82 YEAR-OLD LADY WHO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER WITH A CT SCAN IN SEPTEMBER 2006. THEY ALSO FOUND THERE WAS SOME SMALL GASTROHIPATTIC LYMPHNODES AND WASN'T ANY EVIDENCE OF METASTASIS TO ANY OTHER ORGANS. PAST MEDICAL HISTORY, SHE HAD HYPERTENSION, HISTORY OF HYPER ATTENTION AND SHE HAD A FAMILY HISTORY OF GASTRIC CANCER. IN OCTOBER OF THE SAME YEAR, SHE HAD THE GASTROSCOPY THAT REVEALED THE MATH ABOUT 25-MILLIMETERS AND A FLAT SHAPED MASS ABOUT 50-MILLIMETERS. THE ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY THAT WAS WELL DIFFERENTIATED WITH P53 MUTATION, AS WITH MY NUCLEAR ACTIVITY. BECAUSE OF HER AGE, ABOUT QUALITY OF LIFE CONCERNS, SHE DID NOT HAVE SURGERY. HOWEVER SHE WAS GIVEN THIS EXTRACT OF [INDISCERNIBLE] EXTRACT WHICH HE TOOK AND FIVE MONTHS LATER THE GASTROCOPEY AND CT SCAN AND THAT DEMONSTRATED THAT THE [INDISCERNIBLE] HAD DECREASED AND THE FLEET LESION HAD SHRUNK SLIGHTLY. BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS LOOKING AT THE [INDISCERNIBLE] REALAL AND SHE DID NOT KNOW HER LIMITS AND SHE DID NOT EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT SIDE EFFECTS FROM THIS TREATMENT. NOW YOU CAN SEE FROM THE CT SCAN, THAT'S THE PROLIFERATE MASS THIS, IS BEFORE AND THIS IS THE AFTER HARDLY VISIBLE ON THIS SO ON THE B-SIDE. THIS IS THE 50-MILLIMETER ONE. , THIS SHE TOOK THE RBS. THERE IS HISTOLOGY, AND THAT IS WITH IMMUNO HISTOCHEMICAL STAINING. SO FOR THREE WOMEN WHO WERE ALLERGIC TO ABDOMINAL PAIN AND LOST ABOUT FIVE KILOGRAMS IN THREE MONTHS. AND REVEAL THE MASS TWO BY 2-CENTIMETERS IN THE HEAD AND IN FIELD TRIPS SURROUNDING THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE. AND ALSO ON THE LIVER OF THE THESE. C19 ILEVELS AND SHE HAD EXMORRA TORRIVE SURGERY FOR METASTATIC. AND AND QUADRAT RICK CARCINOMA. SHE WENT, SHE UNDERWENT SURGERY, THEY REMOVED THE HEAD OF THE PAN KRIST AS AND USING THIS SHE WAS DIAGNOSED AT STAGE FOUR DISEASE. AFTER THIS SHE HAD THE SURGERY, FOR NINE SICKLES SEVERAL WEEKS BECAUSE OF THE SEVERE SIDE EASTS THAT THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED. FOR EXAMINATION, SHE WAS IN REMISSION OF THE HEPATIC METASTASIS. 10 MONTHS AFTER FINISHING HER THERAPY THERE WAS EVIDENCE OF TUMOR PROGRESSION AND THE 99 LEVEL HIS COMPLETELY NORMALIZED. INTERESTED IN THIS CASE WAS AT THE TIME SHE HAD SHE HAD THE SURGERY, SHE WAS ALSO CONSULTING AN ALTERNATIVE OF WHO PRACTICE HOMEIO PATH. SHE WAS TAKING THE INTERVENTIONS AT THE SAME TIME, AND SHE STARTED IT ABOUT THE SAME TIME AND THOSE ARE ON THE LIVER AFTER WE HAVE CASES. AND REACTIVE AND ALL THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO ANY CLINICAL STUDY OR THEY HAVE THE CASE SERIOUS. AND PHYSICIANS WHO SAW PATIENTS WOULD HAVE TO RELY ON CASE REPORTS AND CONTINUOUS CASES, AND SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE REPORT INDEED THE LITERATURE. EVERYTHING CASE REPORT AND CONTROL SERIES, CAN BE THE FIRST STEP AND A GOOD CASE REPORT USUALLY HAS AN ELEMENT OF SURPRISE. NOW GO TO THIS, IT'S ATTRACTION, IN THE LEFT BREAST, YOU H. H. I.T THE LUMP AND THE MAMMOGRAM SHOWED THE LUMP IN THE LEFT BREAST. THAT'S THE MASS AND THAT'S THE RETRACTION. AND FINAL ASPIRATION LESION, HE HAD A MODIFIED RADICAL MASTECTOMY AND THERE'S INCITU CARCINOMA. AND AND NUMBER TWO FROM NEUTRAL LEVEL TWO THAT WERE FOUND TO BE INVOLVE BIDE METASTATIC BREAST CANCER D. MUCH. THERE WASN'T A SECOND LEVEL OF NODES, THEY FOUND THE HIGH GRADE B-CELL, WITH THE ANTIGENS. WITH THE CLASSIFICATION, THE B-CELL LYMPHOMA THEY DIDN'T FIND ANY OF THE [INDISCERNIBLE] USING CT OR PET SCANS. THEY SHOOT IT CAN SIX COURSES OF CHEMO THERAPY AND ALSO TAMOXIFEN. SO THAT'S THE CASE OF THE CASE BECAUSE THE BREAST CANCER IT'S VERY TO THE INCIDENCE, THIS [INDISCERNIBLE] WHO HAD SURGERY FOR OVARIAN CANCER STAGE THREE, TO EXTEND IT TO THE AND YOU HAVE SURGERY TO REMOVE THE UTERROUS AND THE OVARIES AND IN THE FRONT, THE ORGANS SHE HAD THIS, [INDISCERNIBLE]. TWO YEARS AFTER, SHE PRESENTED WITH NUMBNESS WHICH IS ABNORMALITY IN SENSATION, CAN BE DESCRIBED BY STAIN, AND PROGRESSING WEAKNESS IN ALL [INDISCERNIBLE] WITH URINARY RETENTION. SHE IT STUDIES OF THIS IMAGE THAT ARE THE MIDLESION THAT ARE ABLE TO ASSIST THOSE AND THEY ARE UNDER THE FIRST [INDISCERNIBLE] WE CALL THAT EXPANSION AND EDEMA EXPANDING TO THE MEDULLA AND SPINAL CORD. TWO MORE [INDISCERNIBLE] WAS ALSO NORMAL AND THE CT SCANS WERE ALL NEGATIVE. INFECTION SCREEN WAS NEGATIVE BECAUSE THAT WAS OF THE NEUROLOGICAL, MIDLINE VALVE AND DEBULKING OF THE MASS, THE MRI SCAN HEPATIC SURGERY EXPECTED CHANGES IN THE TUMOR. MRI AND THIS IS POST SURGERY, THE POST SURGERY AND AFTER REHABILITATION. ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE HAD SUDDEN LOSS OF ABILITY TO USE HER LEGS AND IT WAS SPINAL EPIDURAL TUMOR. AND UNFORTALATELY THE PATIENT PASSED FIVE MONTHS AND SHOW METASTASIS, [INDISCERNIBLE]. SHE IS SPINED [INDISCERNIBLE] SO IT WILL GO TO THE OTHER ORGANS, THE ABNORMALITIES DOMEN, THE LIVER, THAT'S WHY IT'S AGAIN, AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HOW THIS CASE WAS MANAGED BUT THIS IS A 40 YEAR-OLD LADY WHO PRESENTED AT AGE 54, MUSK LO SKELETAL PAIN. SIX YEARS AFTER THAT TIME SHE HAD GRAFT RICK BYPASS BECAUSE OF SEVERE OBESITY AND FIVE YEARS BEFORE THEN SHE HAD RADICAL MASTECTOMY FOR BREAST CANCER WEB SITE, SHE RECEIVED TAMOXIFEN [INDISCERNIBLE] WAS HIGH AND BOTH CAN REVIEW THE ACTIVITY AND AT THE TIME THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS MOST LIKELY DUE TO METASTASIS, SHE HAD THE PRIMARY BREAST CANCER. MAMMOGRAPHY OF THE LEFT BREAST CT SCANS, CHEST, ABNORMALITIES DOMEN ALL WERE NEGAATIVE. HOWEVER, THEY DID NOT DO ANY BIOPSY OF THE SECOND THAT THEY SAW ON SCAN. SHE CONTINUED TO EXPERIENCE THE PAIN, CT SCANS THAT WERE DONE TWICE AFTER THAT ALL WERE NEGAATIVE. AND AT EIGHT TIME-64, SHE CONSUMMITTED A PHYSICIAN BECAUSE SHE HAD PAIN AROUND HER RIB CAGE. SHE HAD LOST A HUNDRED POUNDS, SHE CONSULTED ABOUT A POSSIBILITY OF VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY. AND 25, VITAMIN D WAS UNDETECTABLE, THE PAIN RESOLVED, THE LEVEL OF VITAMIN D WAS STILL BELOW NORMAL, BUT UNDETICKETTIBLE TO A LEVEL AND SHE CONTINUED TO [INDISCERNIBLE] AND FREE AND THE LEVEL OF VITAMIN D WAS STILL BELOW NORMAL. AND DIFFERENT PLACES OR DISTANT PRACTICES. AND LOCATION THIS CAN PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION AND DISCUSSION. THIS IS PUBLISHED CASE REPORTS AND BE MANAGED AND THAT CAN BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PHYSICIANS IN DIFFERENT PATHS. AND SO THE CASES ARE MANAGED [INDISCERNIBLE] HOW TO PREPARE THEM AND MY OWN FIRST PUBLICATION FROM A CASE REPORT. THERE'S EXAMPLES WITH THE GILLS AT HOPKINS. AND THE HUMAN TEMPORAL BONE. AT THE TIME [INDISCERNIBLE] NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY ON A PATIENT OF WHAT AX PEERED TO BE--APPEARED AND ONE OF THEM GOT TOGETHER AND AND NORMAL BODIES SO, YOU CAN SEE THEM IN TWOALATIONS-OF TWO LOCATIONS AND WHAT IT WOULD BE FOUND, AND CLINICAL ENTITIES. NOW CASE REPORTS ARE VERY IMPORTANT IN THIS ERA OF EVIDENCE. WE HAVE SOME CASE REPORTS CONTINUING KDING DO MORE BAD THAN GOOD BY EMPHASIZING THE PRESERVE, HOWEVER OUR CLINICIANS WOULD NOT BE TOO HAPPY, IN THE CLASS IN THE MEDICAL CASE REVIEW. EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE LOOKS FOR THE BEST EVIDENCE FOR CLINICAL DECISION. TO A PARTICULAR PATIENT, ON CLINICAL TRIALS ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE NOT SURE [INDISCERNIBLE] HOWEVER, CASE REPORTS, THE AIMS ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT BUT DIFFERENT BUT THEY'RE DIFFERENT FOR THE PROGRESS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL RULES OF CASE REPORTS ON CASE SERIES. IT CAN BE USED FOR THE RECOGNITION AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW DISEASES. AND THAT MAYBE ADVERSE AND IT CAN BE USE INDEED MEDICAL EDUCATION AND AUDIT AND [INDISCERNIBLE] OF THE PATIENTS OF DISEASE. BY EXAMPLE IN 1999 CASE SERIES, THE NEWS WAS PRECEPTED BY THE EPIDEMIC OF WEST NILE INSEVERE MITRALLA LIGHTIS IN NEW YORK CITY. AND IT CAN ALSO BE BENEFICIAL TO REPORT SIDE EFFECTS OF DRUGS. AND THE SIDE EFFECTS CAN ADUP TO THE BE ADVERSE EARLY ON. CASE REPORTS FROM MOST IF NOT ALL RETRACTIONS OF DRUGS FROM THE MARKETS, IT'S A PROCESS THAT IT GREW OUT OF CASE REPORT FROM DETECTION OF THE EFFECTS. AND THAT WAS DEVELOPED FROM THE SIDE EFFECT OF THE ANTIHYPER TENSIVE AGENT, LIKE [INDISCERNIBLE] IT WAS DEVELOPED AND IT HAS BEEN SEEN AND IT'S BENEFICIAL AND ALSO WE DRAW THE LINK TO DEPRESSION. BEEF THE WAY TO THE USE OF ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS AND SMOKING SECESSION AGENTS. CLINICAL [INDISCERNIBLE] LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF [INDISCERNIBLE] LED TO THE DESCRIBE OF DIABETES WITH DEAFNESS AND THIS IN TURN FURTHER LED TO CLUES OF UNDERSTANDING MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES, CASE REPORTS FOR THE SUBSTRATES FOR RESEARCH MANY YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION. IN THIS EXAMPLE, 1886 [INDISCERNIBLE] DESCRIBE FIRST CASE REPORT OF SIGNIFY TELOMERA AND WITH BILATERAL ADRENAL TUMOR. ONE OR ANOTHER, ONE YEAR LATER. IT'S ON SEVEN, NEWMAN AND HIS COLLEAGUES WERE FOR RELATIVES OF THE SAME PATIENT AND FOUND THAT THAT PATIENT HAD A MUTATION AND HER FAMILY HAD MULTIPLE ENDOCRANIAL PLATEIN. SO, THAT'S A GREAT BIG BENEFIT, OR A BENEFIT OF CASE REPORTS OF OF WHAT IT CAN DO BECAUSE AT THE TIME THE PRIMARY CASE WAS REPORTED WE DIDN'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE FOR TODAY. THIS HAS LOOKED AT CASE REPORT IS SYSTEMIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSIS TO TRY AND GET THE BEST OUT OF CASE REPORTS. MAY FIELD AND GOREIN LOOKED AT CASES OF TAX OX FIN [INDISCERNIBLE] CASES IN BRAOF THE CANCER PATIENTS. AFTER REVIEW, THIS LED TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF BASE TOXICITY AND AS WELL AS THE SEVERITY OF THE OICALLA FINDINGS. IT ALSO ALLOWED TO THEM TO RECOGNIZE THE DIFFICULT NEUROECTODERMAL ISOLATING TOXICITY DUE TO TAMOXIFEN, TOXICITY OR DUE TO OTHER RETINAL LOCATION NOLL MACULAR OR [INDISCERNIBLE] ABNORMALITIES. NOTED IN THE LIT ARRAY REVIEW OF THE [INDISCERNIBLE] OF THE FLAIL OPENNIAN TUBE, THIS ALLOWED FOR BETTER UPLINE OF PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS. ALLOWED TO HYPOTHESIZE OF THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE CASES, OF THE OFFICE OF TREATMENT FAILURE. AND AS A RESULT OF THIS STUDY, META-ANALYSIS, WE FOUND THAT THERE WAS LOOK LACK OF CONTROL TRI OUTS AND THEY ALSO FOUND THE USEFULNESS OF THE SECOND LAPROSCOPY FOR RESPONSE OF THE TREATMENT GIVEN. SO WITHOUT THIS CASE REVIEW, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO FIND OUT ALL THESE THINGS I JUST TALKED ABOUT. WE LOOKED AT THERAPY IN CANCER PATIENTS FROM 1966 USING THE MEDLINE AND SOME OTHER THINGS TO LOOK AT CANCER--THERAPY IN CANCER PATIENTS. CASE REPORTS HAD ANTITUMOR EFFECT AND 21 CASE REPORTS REVIEWED TOXICITY EFFECTS. WE FOUND THAT AT THE TIME THERE WERE 34 CLINICAL TRIALS. LOOKING AT GREEN TEA 27 FOR PHYTOESTROGENS AND ONE FOR NO NEED ON GAMMA DESCENDANTS AND SOME OTHER THINGS LIKE [INDISCERNIBLE] HAVE ALSO BEEN STUDIED PROSPECTIVELY. WHAT WE FOUND THAT THERE ARE PROMISING CASE REPORT FINDING FROM MANY LABS HOWEVER NOT MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN EXPLORED OR CLINICALLY, BUT IT'S BEING DONE. AND THE RESULT OF ALL THAT, THEY HAVE NOT BEEN REPORT INDEED ENGLISH JOURNALS. THE META-ANALYSIS OF CASE REPORTS, WE ALL AGREE THAT IT'S NOT THE BEST EVIDENCE AVAILABLE. HOWEVER IN CASES WHERE THE DISEASE IS RARE, AND IS NOT POSSIBLE TO CONDUCT CLINICAL STUDIES, CASE REPORT MIGHT BE THE BEST LINE OF EVIDENCE AND THIS HAS TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. JUST GOING TO GO BRIEFLY ABOUT CASE REPORTS AND LEGAL THINGS. THIS IS THE FEDERAL REGULATIONS DEFINITION OF RESEARCH. IT'S THE SYSTEMIC INVESTIGATION INCLUDING RESET TESTING, DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN AND DEVELOP A TRIBUTE TO GENERALIZE NIH, THE OFFICE OF HUMAN RESEARCH AND GO INTO RESEARCH AND WHAT IS NOT RESEARCH AND THE BENEFITS OF OR USES IN EVIDENCE. SOME BEFORE--MAYBE ONE OF THE MEMBER SYSTEM BECAUSE THERE'S NO TIME THAT THE REPORTING CASE REPORTS SO THEY WENT ABOUT TRYING TO DEVELOP A REVIEW INSTRUMENT. THAT JOURNALS COULD USE AND INTERNS CAN USE TO SELECT WHICH CASE REPORT THEY'LL PUBLISH IN THEIR JOURNALS. AND IN THIS CASE, THEY LOOKED ABOUT--THEY LOOK LIKE 28 CASE REPORTS. 13 OF THEM WERE PUBLISHED, 15 OF THEM WERE NOT PUBLISHED AND THEY HAD FOUR REVIEWERS WHO RATED EACH OF THESE THINGS ON PROPERTIES OF [INDISCERNIBLE], AND ALL THE WAY DOWN AND THEN, THERE WAS AN 11th ITEM, WE SAID, SHOULD THIS CASE REPORT BE PUBLISHED OR NOT. AND AFTER THE REVIEW, THEY REVIEWED LIKE I SAID, 28 CASE REPORTS AND THE REASON WHY THEY HAVE THAT, THEY WERE TRYING TO GET CASE REPORTS THAT WERE NOT PUBLISHED BUT IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO GET EDITORS TO RELUC UNPUBLISHED CASE REPORTS SO THIS ONE FORMED, SOME OF THEIR COLLEAGUES HAD REVIEWED THE CASES SO THEY GOT THIS NUMBER. AND THEY TRY TO FIND THE CORRELATION AND WHAT IN THESE 10 ITEMS WILL HELP THEM MAKE WHETHER IT WOULD BE THE CASE REPORT, SHOULD BE PUBLISHED OR NOT. AND THEY CAME UP WITH RATIONAL FOR REPORTING THE CASE AND IT'S UNIQUENESS, PRESENTING A PATENT ASSPEGHTS OF PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, IMPLICATION OF THE CASE IMPORTANT WITH RESPECT TO PRACTICE, RESEARCH POLICY, REGULATORY STABBED ARDS AND [INDISCERNIBLE] PUBLIC HEALTH. IMPLICATIONS REVEAL ADEQUATE AND CASE REPORT MAKES AN IMPORTANT ADDITION TO THE MEDICAL LITERATURE. HOWEVER, WHEN THEY LOOK AT THYROID CARCINOMA PHYSICIAN, THEY REVIEW IT AND LOOK AT IF THE CASES WERE ACTUALLY PUBLISHED OR NOT, THEY DIDN'T FIND ANY CORERATION. SO THIS IS JUST LIKE I SAID, AN ATTEMPT BY SOME PEOPLE TO MAYBE CREATE SOME SANITYY IN THE POSITION WHEREBY THERE'S NO STANDARDS FOR PUBLISHING CASE REPORTS. EMPLOY. [INDISCERNIBLE] ON MEDICAL IMPACT RESEARCH, IN 2005 OUR COLLEAGUES LOOKED AT THE LAND [INDISCERNIBLE] FROM A DIARY OF 1995 TO JUNE OF 96 AND THEY LOOKED AT ALL THE PUBLISHED CASE REPORT FROM LANCET AND TO SEE IF THEY HAD ANY IMPACT AND THIS IS WHAT THEY FOUND. OUT OF 64 CASE REPORTS, 16 OF THEM HAD 21 OR MORE CITATIONS. 11 OF THEM WERE FOLLOWED BY PUBLISHED TRIAL. AT THAT TIME, 67 DO [INDISCERNIBLE] SCRIBED TO THE CLASS OF DISEASE, 27% ON EACH SIDE IS IMPROVEMENT, AND 69% OF FAILURE AT FIVE%. THEY LOOK AT CASES AND LANCET CASES AGAIN AND THEY LOOK AT 21 AND ABOVE 50%, ONLY NINE AND IF THERE ARE PUBLISHED TRIALS, 31%, KIND OF SIMILAR BETWEEN THE CASE REPORTS AND THE CASE SERIES. SO THIS IS TRYING TO SHOW THAT THE CASE REPORTS AND SHOWING THE CASE BETWEEN [INDISCERNIBLE] WAS A Ph.D. SCIENTIST AND [INDISCERNIBLE] WAS A PHYSICIAN AND THEY COMBINED TO WRITE A CASE REPORT. SO MAYBE THAT MIGHT BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CASE REPORTS IN THE FUTURE. THERE MUST BE A SINGLE MESSAGE THAT WOULD BE CLEAR WHY IS THE INHIBITION IMPORTANT AND SOME CHARRISHED BOX. AND WHY WOULD THAT BE MISSED„i. AND THE CASE REPORT SHOULD BE DONE IN A MANNER. AND IN THE REAR EXPAINSS, WHERE CLINICAL TRIALS AND THE ONLY EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO RECOMMEND TREATMENT AND THANK AND YOU I'M THANKFUL TO MY COLLEAGUES DR. WEISS AND DR. ZEAM. >> PERHAPS CAN YOU ELABORATE ON CASES WHERE THE DIAGNOSIS AND NOT CLEAR. FIGURE OUT THE BEST WAY TO PROCEED WITH THAT PATIENT [CHECK] >> ALL RIGHT. IN CASE STUDIES, THE--IT'S NOT THE--THE WAY FOR IS NOT CLEAR. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS TO BE DONE UPFRONT IS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE VERY GOOD HISTORY. TAKEN FROM THE PATIENT, THE CLINICAL MOCK UP WAS NOT VERY GOOD. SO A GOOD PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, VERY GOOD INVESTIGATION THAT ARE DONE AND DEPENDING ON WHERE THIS OCCURS. IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO WITHIN THE SAME FACILITY OR THAT HAVE THE SAME EXPERTISE, YOU CAN COME, CAN YOU DISCUSS THE CASE IN SOME CASES AND DON'T HAVE SOMEBODY WITH THE FOR EXAMPLE I DON'T KNOW THE WORD FOR IT. AND THE EXPERT AT NIH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT JUST¨5( NEEDS DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PHONE AND SAY GO FORWARD, THAT MIGHT HAPPEN BUT IN SOME CASE, IT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE NEEDED TO TRANSFER THE PATIENT TO THE EXPERT SO THAT THE PATIENT HAS THE BEST OF WHAT IS AVAILABLE. SO THAT IS THE KIND OF THING THAT HAPPENS IN INSTITUTIONS WHERE YOU DON'T KNOW THE WAY FORWARD. IN TODAY'S DAY AND TECHNOLOGY, THE U.S. HAS AND CONTINUES TO HELP A LOT OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BY PROVIDING RESOURCES. SO THEY HAVE SOME INSTYPINGSS, THEY HAVE INSTITUTIONS IN SOME DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE A PROBLEM OR THE NOTION OF OF STUDYING THINGS, THEY CAN USE E-MAIL TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR COLLEAGUE IN THE U.S. WHO WILL REVIEW THE CASE AND THEN GET BACK TO THEM AND SOME OF THEM USE LIVE VIDEO CAST, ALSO. SOPHISTICATED IT'S NOT ONLY WITHIN A COUNTRY. NOW IT'S GONE INTERNATIONAL WHERE YOU CAN REVIEW, CASES, I KNOW THAT THE RADIOLOGYSTS IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD WHO REVIEW RADIOLOGY AND IMAGES IN THE U.S. BECAUSE OF SEVERAL REASONS. I WON'T GO INTO THAT. >> OKAY, WELL, THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> OKAY 94 NEXT SPEAKER IS KURT HAIR AND I GUESS HE GOT HIS M. D. DEGREE FROM THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE; AND PRACTICING INTERN ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS MEDICINE AND HE THEN CAME TO THE NCI SUCH AS AWARDS FROM THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF TOXICOLOGY, THE AACR, HE RECEIVED THE DISTINGUISH SERVICE MEDAL FROM THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. >> THAT'S ENOUGH. >> OKAY, BUT HIS BUGGEST CONTRIBUTION IS THE JOURNAL OF CARCINOGENESIS; THERE'S MANUCRYPTS THERE AND KURT'S DONE A GREAT SERVICE ESTABLISHING THIS JOURNAL FOR US. HIS TITLE: INNATE IMUMITY, SINCE'VE SIN ESTIMATE THAD ENS, MicroRNA AND P53 NETWORKS. >> I'LL TRY TO TIE APPROXIMATE TOGETHER FOR YOU TO MAKE SOME SENSE OUT OF IT. SO INFORMATION IN CANCER SOME PEOPLE SAY, GOES BACK TO [INDISCERNIBLE] WHO IS A GERMAN PATHOLOGIST BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY A DUTCH PHYSICIAN IN THE 17th CENTURY, MADE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN INFLAMMATION AND CANCER. O THIS IS A VERY OLD CONCEPT AND THEN WE GO THROUGH SOME INTRODUCTORY AND FIRST OF ALL BOTH CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND INFECT CAN INCREASE CANCER RISK AND CAN BE LARGELY INHERITED SUCH AS HEMOCHROMEATOSEIS, IRON OVERLOAD OR LIVER OR KRONES KRONES--CROHNS OR ULCRY COLITIS FOR THYMATORY CANCER OR BOWEL DISEASE OMOST FREE WENTLY ACQUIRED AND THIS MEANS INFECTIONS BY VIRUSES, BY BACTERIA, OR BY PARASITIC ORGANANISMS AND THEN THERE'S THE CATEGOR THAT'S MOST PEOPLE HAVEN'T PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO UNTIL RECENTLY AND THAT'S CHEMICAL, AND PHYSICAL AND METABOLIC. SO ACID REFLUX, BARRETT'S SERKS SOV GUS INCREASES RISK OF THEARS NOME AASBESTOS DOES A LOT OF THING BUS IT IS ALSO AN INFLAMMATORY AGENT FOR MACK WOPHAGES. OBESITY I'LL MAKE A POINT MORE ABOUT THAT AS MANY PEOPLE CONSIDER IT TO BE A CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE, SMOKING, CIGARETTE SMOKE CONTAIN60 OR MORE CHEMICAL CAR SIN CARCINOGENS AND WITHIN THIS WITCH'S BREW THERE ARE ALSO A NUMBER OF PROINFLAMMATORY AGENTS AND INFLAMMATION PLAYS A ROLE THERE. THAT WAS ESTIMATEDDED A FEW YEARS AGO, BY THE INTERNATIONAL AGENCY RESEARCH ON CANCER THAT ABOUT 18% OF ALL HUMAN CANCERS ARE RELATED TO INFECTION. AND THAT'S OVER A MILLION AND A HALF A YEAR AND THAT'S NOT COUNTING THESE KINDS OF CANCERS OR THESE KINDS OF CANCERS. SO I'M SURE THAT IT'S SUBSTANTIALLY MORE THAN THAT. BUT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU THE IMPRESSION THAT ALL INFECTIOUS AGENTS CAUSE AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE OR THAT ALL INFLAMMATION, INFLAMMATORY DISEASES ARE ASSOCIATE WIDE CANCER. SO THERE ARE TWO EXAMPLES, ONE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, PRIMARILY OF THE JOINTS, BUT ONE NEVER SEES JOINT SARCOMAS. THERE WAS A VERY SMALL INCREASE IN LYMPHOID TUMORS AND SOME OF THAT MIGHT BE RELATED FOR THEIR THERAPY. NOT ALL ONCAGENIC VIRUSES, WHICH ARE CANCER PRONE LEAD TO INFECTIONS AND HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS IS A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT. NOW I SAID THAT THAT OBESITY IS A CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE, THERE'S TWO LANDMARK PAPERS, BOTH IN THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION WHICH MADE THE LINK BETWEEN INFLAMMATION, AND OBESITY. AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED WITH NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AND OF COURSE, CANCER, AND DIABETES AND OTHER THINGS, AND THESE TWO PAPERS CAME UP WITH THE DATA SUPPORTING OBESITY CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THEY DID WAS JUST ANALYZE FAT. AND FAT CONTAINS A LARGE NUMBER OF MACROPHAGES. AND THOSE MACROPHAGES, FORM LOOPS. AND THOSE PRODUCE CYTOKINES AND ONE IS THE OXYGEN BASED FREE RADICALS RADICALS LESS THE HYDROGEN BASED FREE RADICALS. AND PROTEINS INCLUDING LEADING TO DECREASED DNA REPAIR, AND DECREASE APOPTOSIS, AND THE CAP BASES, AND THEY ALSO DAMAGE DNA, AND THAT DAMAGE ISN'T REPAIRED BY BASIC INSIPGZ REPAIR AND CAN CAN LEAD TO MUTATION. AND NOW IT CAN DIRECTLY AND MAYBE NITRIC OXIDE, EXPOSE TOWER CELLS WOULD CAUSE AN INCREASE IN DNA METHYLATION. AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL SILENCING OF GENES, AND ALSO, LEAD THROUGH LIP I PEROXIDATION AND ACID CASCADE AND LEAD TO INCREASED CELL PROLIFERATION AND ACTIVATE COX2 WHICH I'LL MENTION IN A MOMENT. LIPID PEROXIDATION CAN LEAD TO HIGHLY REACTIVE CHEMICALS. MAILEDDA AILEDDA HIDE AND THE LAT PROCEDURE DUCES ATHEN O ADDICTS WHICH ARE REMOVE BIDE BASIC CISION REPAIR AND ALSO HIGHLY MUTE O GENIC. SO ONE STRATEGY TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF INFLAMMATION, IS TO EITHER EXPOSE CELLS TO SPECIFIC AGENTS SUCH AS FREE RADICALS RADICALS SUCH AS NITRIC OXIDE OR DO CULTURES OF MACROPHAGES WITH TARGET CELLS, THIS IS A VERY CRUDE ATTEMPT TO LOOK AT CELL-CELL INTERACTION AND MICROENVIRONMENT. AND THEN COMPARE THESE KINDS OF RESULTS WITH EACH OTHER BUT WITH WHAT'S HAPPEN NOTHING THE CLINIC SUCH AS INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE, THE ULCATORY COLITIS, CROHN'S DISEASE WHICH ARE CANCER PRONE AND LOOKING DOWN A COLONOSCOPE, THIS IS WHAT HOPEFULLY ALL OF YOUR EPITHELIUM LOOKS LIKE IN THE COLON. IF YOU HAVE ULCRY COLITIS AND IT'S ACTIVE, IF WILL LOOK LIKE THIS. IT'S ABOUT ONE IN A HUNDRED PEOPLE HAVE ONE OR THE OTHER OF THOSE DISEASES. AND THERE ARE ANIMAL MODELS AVAILABLE SO LET'S SUMMARIZE WORK THAT OUR GROUP AND OTHERS HAVE DONE IN REGUARDS TO CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND THE NITRIC--NIGHT ROSINE REACTIVE FREE RADICALS THAT I MENTIONED. AND PRIMARILY, IRPT LUKEIN SIX AND EIGHT AND ONE B WILL INCREASE THE ENZYME CALLED INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE OR NOS-TWO. IT'S PART OF THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS ONE TO HAVE ACUTE RESPONSES TO PATHOLOGICAL ORGANISMS FOR EXAMPLE. AND PRODUCES NITRIC OXIDE, IT CAN CAUSE DNA DAMAGE AT LOW CONCENTRATION AND THIS ACTIVATES P53 TUMOR SUPPRESSOR THAT HAS ANTICARCINOGENIC EFFECTS AND AMONG OTHER THINGS, CAN LEAD TO INESTIMATE THAD ENS OF CELLS. BUT THE DNA DAMAGE CAN CAUSE MUTATIONS IN CANCER RELATED GENES INCLUDING P53 GENE WHICH WE'VE SHOWN FOR ULCRY COLITIS AND CROHN'S DISEASE AND HEMACHROMEATOSE AND I GUESS HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION AND THIS HAS MULTIPLE EFFECTS. ONE PROCARCINOGENIC EFFECTS, GENOMIC INSTABILITY AND DECREASED CELL CYCLE CHECK POINT AND THEY REPAIR APOPTOSIS AND SIN ESTIMATE THAD ENS WHICH I'M BRINGING HOME THE MESSAGE ABOUT SIN ESTIMATE THAD ENS HERE. --AS WE SHOWED A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, TRANSFER EXPRESSES EXPRESSION OF I-NOS, AND THIS IS P53 MUTATIONS AND OR A LOSS OF WILD-TYPE P53, YOU END UP WITH VERY HIGH AND CHRONIC LEVELS OF NITRIC OXIDE. IT'S GOING TO CAUSE MUTATIONS IN A VARIETY OF GENES. NOW THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF GENES AND MECHANISMS„i REGULATING SENESCENCE, EMPHASIZE P53 AND I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED NITRIC OXIDE BUT THERE ARE OTHER PATHWAYS INCLUDING PRO INFLAMMATORY SIGNALING THAT WILL CAUSE SENESCENCE OF CELLS. THOSE STROMAL CELLS CELLS AND EPITHELIAL CELLS. P53 YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH, BUT IT'S BEEN RECOGNIZED AGAIN, FAIRLY RECENTLY THAT P53 IS CRITICAL IN AGING AND CELLULAR SENESCENCE AND THAT CELLULAR SENESCENS IS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR MECHANISM IN VIVO. THESE COME FROM STUDIES OF PRECANCEROUS LESIONS AND BENIGN TUMORS IN HUGH MANS AS WELL AS EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS THAT CONTAIN A LOT OF SIN ESTIMATE THADENT CELLS AND IT'S IN A MOMENT WHEN THESE BENIGN TUMORS BECOME CANCEROUS TUMORS THEY THEY--THESE ARE SOME OF THE FIRST STUDIES BUT THE DISEASES AND ANIMAL STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT RESTORATION OF P53 CAN LEAD TO TUMOR REGREGZ, THROUGH SENESCENCE. EVERYBODY'S WELL, IS IT ALL APOPTOSIS AND THE ANSWER IS NO. A LOT OF IT IS SENESCENS. THE NEXT QUESTION THEY ASK, IS WELL IF IT'S SENESCENCE, DO THE CELLS JUST HANG AROUND AND THE ANSWER IS NO. SIN ESTIMATE THADENT CELLS ARE RECOGNIZED BY THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, BY MACROPHAGES AND THEY'RE CLEARED AND THAT CLEARANCE IS VERY IMPORTANT IN REGUARD TO REMOVING THE CELLS BECAUSE THE SIN ESTIMATE THADENT CELLS CAN PRODUCE THE PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES. AND OF COURSE THERE,'S A CONNECTION WITH AGING. SO CELLULAR SENESCENS WAS DISCOVERED BY A GUY NAMED HAYFLICK, QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO AND THE CULTURE, THE TULA MERS GET SHORTER AND SHORTER NOTHING THEY LEAD TO A DAMAGE DNA RESPONSE AND ONE MEASURE OF THAT IS GAMMA HTWO AX POSITIVITY. THIS LEADS TO DNA DAMAGE SIGNALING CASCADE THAT ACTIVATES P53. YOU CAN DAMAGE DNA IN OTHER WAYS BY CAR SIN CARCINOGENS FOR EXAMPLE, CAN CAN LEAD TO P53 OR ONCA GENES SUCH AS RAS CAN ACTIVATE THE ARF PATHWAY AND LEAD TO SENESCENCE THROUGH RB AND P16. SO THESE ARE THREE FOLKS IN OUR GROUP THAT'S BEEN STUDYING SENESCENCE IN P53 ISOFORMS AND MICRORNAS IS PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATORS ARE REPLICATED SENESCENCE INVITRO AND I'M SHOWING YOU THESE DATA TO MAKE A COUPLE OF POINTS. ONE IS ABOUT 80% IT WAS OHM ABOUT 40%, AND ENHANCING EFFECTS OR INHIBITORY EFFECTS OR COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EFFECTS IN THE GENE THAT YOU'RE STUDYING. OKAY. THAT'S LESSON NUMBER ONE. LESSON NUMBER TWO IS, P53 IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS, THERE ARE 13 DIFFERENT SPLICE MESSAGES, OR USING ALL THE PROMOTERS IN THE 10 DIFFERENT PROTEINS. SO WHEN YOU DO IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY FOR P53, OR WESTERN FOR PPEAR, YOU'RE LOOKING PRIMARILY LOOKING AT ONE UNLESS YOU'RE DOING IT IN A SPECIAL WAY. SO WE'VE BEEN STUDYING ONE OF THESE, TWO OF OF THESE ISOFORMS IN DETAIL, P53 BETA THAT IS SPLICED CAR BOXY TERMINUS AND N-DELTA 133 THAT USES A SECOND PROMOTER AND USES THIS ATG SITE AT 133 AND PRODUCES THIS TRUNCATED PROD TEEN. AND SENESCENCE THERE'S THIS DELTA 133 AS YOU SEE HERE TO WHEN THE CELLS ARE HERE, THERE'S AN INCREASE IN BETA AND A DECREASE IN DELTA 133 AND THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT HUMAN CELL STRAINS. DELTA 40, P53 BETA DOESN'T CHANGE, SO WE STOPPED STUDYING THAT. AND THEN, ASKING THE QUESTION IS THIS REALLY IMPORTANT IN SENESCENS. IF YOU KNOCK DOWN THIS DOMINANT NEGATIVE FORM OF DELTA 133, SHOWN HERE, AND HERE WITH A DIFFERENT ANTIBODY, IT LEADS TO AN INCREASE IN P21, AND MORE IMPORTANT TO SENESCENCE. BY A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MARKERS, SO KNOCK DOWN EXPERIMENTS ARE ALWAYS MORE INTERESTING THAN OVEREXPRESSION EXPERIMENTS AS YOU ALL KNOW, AT LEAST THOSE WHO DO LABORATORY WORK, SO THAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU WANT TO DO. EXPRESSION EXPERIMENTS, WE OVEREXPRESSED A DELTA 133, P53, TO SEE IF IN FACT IT CAUSED SENESCENCE AND THIS IS JUST CELL NUMBER HERE, IT'S CELL NUMBER VERSES THE VECTOR CONTROL AND HERE IS USING ONE OF THE MARKERS OF SENESCENCE, THERE'S ABOUT, OH E50% INCREASE OR MORE IN SENESCENT CELLS IN THESE TWO STRAINS IF YOU OVEREXPRESS THE BETA. AND WE OVEREXPRESSED AT LEVELS THAT WE FIND DURING REPLICATED SENESCENCE. WHAT HAPPEN FIST YOU OVEREXPRESS THE DELTA 133, THE QUESTION WE ASK IS DOES IT DELAY SENESCENCE. SO WE TOOK CELLS AT A NEAR SENESCENCE AND THESE ARE COUPULATED POPULATION DOUBLINGS OVER EXPRESSION OF DELTA 133. SHOWN HERE. THE CELLS CONTINUE TO GROW ANOTHER 15 OR¨— SO POPULATION DOUBLINGS, IT'S ABOUT THE EQUIVALENT IF YOU KNOCK DOWN ALL THE WILD-TYPE P53. SO THIS IS A VERY EFFECTIVE TOMINANT NEGAATIVE. SO LET'S GO BACK TO THIS ISSUE I MENTIONED ABOUT BENIGN TUMORS VERSES MALIGNANT TUMORS. THIS IS A NICE CARTOON FROM ONE OF SERANO'S REVIEWS AND THESE BLUE CELLS ARE REPRESENTING SENESCENCE CELLS, ASSOCIATED BETA GELF ACTIVITY, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THESE PREMALIGNANT TUMORS THERE'S A LOT COMPARED TO MALIGNANT TOMB OAR AND THIS IS A GENERAL OBSERVATION. AND WE FOUND IT IN THE STUDIES WE WERE GOING TO, AND THIS IS USING SENESCENS OF THE HIRE ACTIVITY THIS IS A NONTUMOR AREA AND INCREASE IN P16 AND THE OTHER PART OF THE SIN ESTIMATE THADENT AND THE BIFURCATED PATHWAY, P53, AND RB, OR BSCAN INCREASES IN THE ADENOMAS DELTA 133 GOES DOWN AND P53 BETA GOES UP. THERE'S TWO CARC NOME AS, THEY HAVE WILD-TYPE P53 AND THOSE WHO HAVE MUTANT P53 SO WE PROPOSE THAT THE DELTA 133, P53 BETA SWITCH WOULD OHM PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE AT LEAST THE DELTA ONE P53 TUMORS CARCINOMAS AND IT'S SIGNIFICANT IN THESE BETA AND THE TUMORS THAT ALREADY HAVE A MUTATION IN P53, NO DIFFERENT EVEN THOUGH, IT'S A BETA DECREASE. SO THESE ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE DELTA FUNCTIONING IS THE DOMINANT NEGATIVE. SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF INDUCTION MECHANISMS FOR SENESCENCE, P53 BETA. DECREASED DELTA 133, INCREASED P16, ILSIX, DNA DAMAGE BY VARIOUS CAUSES. AND YOU CAN BYPASS THESE TWO AND ONE IS SWITCHING AND THE CO TRANSACT VOITOR WILD-TYPE AND BUT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THIS IS JUST CAUSING MUTATION IN THE GENE. P53. AND THIS MAY BE ONE OF THE REASONS THAT P53 IS ALWAYS DOWN DOWN--FOUND TO BE HIGHLY MUTATE INDEED ALMOST EVERY CANCER IN ALL THE TOTAL GENOME SEQUENCING P53 ALMOST ALWAYS COMES UP YOU CAN HAVE DNA METHYLATION AND SILENCING OF P16 BUT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THAT IS P16. NOW LET'S MOVE FROM THAT, AS AN EXAMPLE OF SENESCENCE AND INFLAMMATION AND THE P53 NETWORK TO NONCODING RNAs. SO, THIS IS THE CURRENT CLASSES OF NONCODING RNAs AND I PUT THEM AS SMALL OR LARGE AND THEY'RE ALL BEING INVESTIGATED IN MANY DIFFERENT LABORATORIES. IT'S VERY EXCITING AREA OF RESEARCH THE FIRST THAT WAS INVESTIGATED WAS THE MICRO RNAs AND THE FIRST INDICATION OF A MICRORNA PLAY NOTHING A ROLE IN THIS DEVELOPMENT IN C.ELEGANS WAS FOUND IN 1992 BY ACTUALLY TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PUBLISHED BACK-TO-BACK PAPERS IN CELL, BUT VICTOR AMROSE FOR REASONS THAT ARE NOT CLEAR TO ME, GETS MOSTS OF THE CREDIT FOR THE FIBBING THEY WERE SUBMITTED ON THE SAME KAY, THEY WERE PUBLISH OFFICE OF DIVERSITY THE SAME SAY BUT BOS THEY DID IT IN TANDEM BUT ANYWAY, THAT WAS THE INITIAL THOUGHT THAT THERE MAY BE A DIFFERENT CLASS OF RNAs THAT MIGHT HAVE A REGULATORY ROLE, NOT BY PRODUCING A PROTEIN, BUT BY INTERACTING WITH OTHER MICRO--WITH OTHER RNAs INCLUDING MESSAGES. THESE RNAs AFFECT THE TRANSMISSION OF LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF TARGETS SO EACH ONE SUCH AS LED SEVEN FOR EXAMPLE WILL AFFECT MANY, MANY DIFFERENT PROTEIN CODING GENES. INITIALLY BY THOSE-OF BY DESTABILIZING THE MESSAGE OR LESSENING THE EXTENT BY INHIBITING TRANSLATION, I'LL SHOW YOU A SUMMARY SLIGHTED OF THAT IN A MOMENT. SO THAT WAS IN 92, MICRO RNAs WERE DISCOVER INDEED HUMAN, CELLS IN THE YEAR 2000. IN IT 2002, CARLA KOSHY MADE THE OBSERVATION THAT MICRO RNAs ARE DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESS INDEED HUMAN CANCERS AND THIS WAS THE SEMINOLE STUDY AND HIS BODIES DID STUDYING LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA. SO ONE STRATEGY IS TO MICROARRAYS, IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA AND IN FACT, I THINK IT'S ESSENTIAL NOT TO RELY ON THESE RESULTTO YOU USE ANOTHER TYPE OF ASSAY SUCH AS REALTIME PC R TO QUANTITATE SPECIFIC MICRO RNAs. YOU DO INCITUHYBRIDDIZATION BECAUSE YOU'RE INTERESTED IN WHERE IN THE CELL AND WHICH CELLS MIGHT BE EXPRESSING PARTICULAR MicroRNA AND THIS TECHNOLOGY HAS IMPROVED. AND THEN, FUNCTIONAL STUDIES, MOST OF US ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT DO THEY DO, AND WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU INHIBIT THEM. AND HOW THEY PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN DISEASE INCLUDING CANCER. AND THE LAST IS THE CAVEAT. AND THE ALGORITHMS THAT PREDICT TARGETS OF MICRORRNAs AND OUR EXPERIENCE AND THE FIELD'S EXPERIENCE IS ABOUT ONE IN FOUR OF THOSE PREDICTED TARGETS ACTUALLY ARE FUNCTIONAL. SO YOU HAVE TO DO THE LABORATORY STUDIES AND NOT RELY ON THE BIOINFORMATIC O SINGLE THIS CASE, SO A MENTIONED THAT MICRORNAs PROCESSED THEIR GENES OBVIOUSLY, THEY'RE TRANSCRIBED PRIMARILY BY PAUL TWO INTO A PREOR PRA-MICRORNA WHICH HAS THESE LOOP KINDS OF STRUCTURES. AND THEN P53 WHICH WE MENTIONED EARLIER FORMS A COMPLEX WITH P68 WHEN IS AN RNA HELIX CASE AND CARRIES THE HELIX CASE TO DORSHIRE WHICH IS AN RNA. AND THERE'S VERY SIMPLE CARTOON OF THAT, IT CLEAVES THE PRIOR MICRO RNATO PREMICRORNA THAT'S TRANSPORTED INTO THE CYTOPLASM AND THE SECOND RNAs DICER THEN CLEAVES IT FURTHER AND IT FORMS A COMPLEX IN THE RISK SET OF PROTEINS AND I PUT P63 HERE BECAUSE P63 IS ONE OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND IT'S A MEMBER OF THE P53 FAMILY THAT IS IMPORTANT IN TRANSCRIBING, IN THE LEVELS OF DICER. AND IF YOU HAVE A MUTANT IN P53, THIS RNAHELIX CASE DOESN'T GO HERE THIS, THERE'S LESS ACTIVATION OF DICER BY P63 BECAUSE MUTANT P53 ACTUALLY FORM A COMPLEX WITH P63, SO, THIS IS ANOTHER AREA IN WHICH, THE P53, PROTEIN AND IT'S MUTANT PROTEIN PLAYS A ROLE IN ANOTHER BIOLOGICAL PROCESS. ALL RIGHT. THERE ARE EXAMPLES EVER WAYS OF ACTIVATING A PECULIAR MICROR NA OF THE GENE TAKEN--THEY ENCODES THAT MIKE ARE RNA, GENE APPLICATION, GENE DELETION, CELLULAR STRESS, EPIY GENETIC MECHANISMS, DNA METHYLATION AND OF COURSE INFLAILATION, PARTICULARLY PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE WHICH IS IS ILSIX AND ILEIGHT. THERE ARE DOWN STREAM TARGETS AND PATHWAYS AND THATEE HOW THESE MICRORNAs FUNCTION. THEY'RE NOT LIKE THE ANTISENSE EXPERIMENTS THAT YOU MIGHT DO IN A LABORATORY WHERE YOU DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE NOT HAVE ANY OFFTARGET EFFECTS. YOU ONLY WANT THE TO AFFECT THAT PARTICULAR MESSAGE AND THAT PARTICULAR PROTEIN AND NOTHING ELSE. WELL, IN BIOLOGY, MICRO RNAs HAVE MANY OFFTARGET EFFECTS THAT'S HOW THEY FUNCTION. THAT'S HOW A PLAY A REGULATORY ROLE. A STUDY WE DID WITH CARLOW WAS TO ASK A SIMPLE QUESTION, IF YOU TAKE HUMAN CANCERS BREAST, COLON, LUNG, STOMACH AND YOU ANALYZE ALL THE MIKE ARE RNAs THAT WERE KNOWN AT THE TIME AND THAT WAS 280, THEY'RE CLOSE TO 2000 THAT IDENTIFY IT AT THIS POINT, AND ASK THE QUESTION, WHICH OF THESE MICRO RNAs ARE THE MOST OVEREXPRESSED. AND IN MOST OF THE TUMORS AND MIRAKA 21 WAS HIGHLY EXPRESSED AND ONE THE RACE AS BEING THE MOST HIGHLY EXPRESSED MicroRNA IN THESE COMMON TYPES OF HUMAN CANCER AND SINCE THEN IT'S BEEN SHOWN TO BE UB UPREGULATE INDEED 13 MAJOR CANCER TYPES. SO THAT PEEKED OUR INTEREST IN MIR 21 AS A POSSIBLE BIOMARKER OF RISK CAN IS GENE ENVIRONMENTMENT INTERACTIONS AND HERE YOU THINK ABOUT PREVENTION AND SCREENING OR PROGNOSIS, TREAT OR NOT TO TREAT, AND MACROMETASTASIS IS PRESTY EASY FOR US IN THE CLINIC TO IDENTIFY, DOING SCANS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. HIKE ROW METASTASIS ARE NOT SO EASY. I'LL OF YOU AN EXAMPLE. ONE OF MY PRIMARY SYSTEM LUNG CANCER AND ABOUT--A STAGE ONE LUNG CANCER, SURGEON REMOVES IT, LOADS A NEGATIVE, AND THE SURGEON SAYS, WELL, I THINK WE GOT IT ALL. IN REALITY ABOUT 40% OF THOSE PEOPLE HAVE MICROMETASTASIS AND WILL BE DEAD IN FIVE YEARS SO THAT'S AND THAT'S FROM CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, I WOULD NO LONGER DO THAT. THEY COME INTO PLAY. SO WE'RE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN EARLY STAGE CANCERS THAT HAVE NO EVIDENCE OF METASTASIS, BUT WE KNOW THERE'S A PERCENTAGE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD MICRO METASTASIS AND THEN THERE'S ISSUES IN TERMS OF USE OF BIOMARKERS FOR THERAPY RELATED ISSUES. SO THIS IS THE SWRIEWM O, AND QUITE A NICE FELLOW, GOOD FELLOW, BOTH GOOD AND A HIGH QUALITY SCIENTIST. AND HE FOUND THAT IN LUNG CANCER THAT MicroRNA PROFILES WERE TYPICALLY DIFFERENT BOTH BETWEEN PRIMARY LUNG CANCERS AND NONCANCEROUS TISSUE, SO MATCH PAIRS AND AMONG THE LIFT HOE LOGICAL TYPES SO HE COULD TELL THE ADENO, AND SMALL CELL AND NEUROENDOCRINE AND LARGE CELL AND SO ON AND SO FORTH AND THESE FIVE MICRO RNAs WERE ASSOCIATE WIDE DIAGNOSIS OF PROGNOSIS INCLUDING STAGE ONE LUNG CANCER. SO MIR 21 MIR 155, 106, THESE ARE ALL INCREASE AND OUR ASSOCIATE WIDE POOR PROGNOSIS. LCERTAINLY--CERTAINLY P-SEVEN AND DECREASED AND ASSOCIATE WIDE POOR PROGNOSIS. SO IN A CRUDE WAY YOU CAN SAY THIS IS A SUPPRESSOR MICRO RNAs AND YOU CAN SAY THESE ARE MICRONKA GENIC LUNG CANCERS BUT THESE WERE INITIALLY DISCOVERED BY TAKA HASHI, WHO WAS A CLINICAL FELLOW ABOUT THE TIME THAT I WAS. IN THE--WHEREVER IT WAS. WAS IT [INDISCERNIBLE] AT THE TIME, I THINK IT WAS THE VA AT THE TIME. AND FRANK SLACK WHO WAS AT YALE. SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT MULTIPLE COHORTS, FROM MARYLAND FROM NORWAY, FROM JAPAN AND THESE ARE CANCER SPECIFIC MORTALITY. THESE ARE CAP LANMEYER PLOTS, HUNDRED% SURVIVAL, ZERO% SURVIVAL. THIS TIME IN MONTHS IT'S A FIVE YEAR POINT, SO IF THE LEVEL OF MIR 21 WAS BELOW THE MEDIAN, THEY HAD BETTER SURVIVAL THAN IF IT WAS ABOVE THE MEDIAN IN THAT COHORT AND THIS COHORT AND IN THAT COHORT. ON THOSE GROUPS, IT'S SHOWN TO BE THE CASE. NOW IT'S TURN TO COLON CANCER AND AARON AND JANE IDENTIFIED MIRAKA 21 EXPRESSION. AS A POTENTIAL BIOMARKER IN ONE OF OUR COHORTS, AND THEN, TO REQUIRE THE VALIDATION IN ANOTHER COHORT AND SO, WE DID THIS WITH OUR COLLEAGUES IN HONG KONG. --FOR SURVIVAL IN THE TUMOR, DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WHETHER HIGH OR LOW IN THE NONTUMOR MATCHED PAIR AND IN THE SECOND INDEPENDENT COHORT, AGAIN, HIGH LEVELS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH POOR SURVIVAL. IN THE NEXT QUESTION AS IT'S RELATED TO THERAPY AND THIS WAS, STILL BEING USED IN THE CLINIC FOR COLON CANCER. AT THAT POINT, THEY WERE USING FIVE OF THE FEW AND THE MARYLAND CO HORDE, THOSE WHO RECEIVE FIVE FU, WE FOUND THAT HIGH LEVELS OF MIR21 WAS SOCKED WITH THE POOR PROGNOSIS AND IN THE HONG KONG COHORT THIS, IS STAGE TWO AND STAGE THREE COLON CANCER CASES, HUNDRED% SURVIVAL, ZERO% SURVIVAL. THIS IS FIVE YEAR POINT. THE RED LINE AND HIGH MIR 21 WITHOUT THERAPY. THEY RECEIVE THERAPY, SOME BENEFIT BUT THOSE WHO ENTERED THE STUDY WHO HAD LOW MIR 21, AND IF THEY HAD LOW MIR 21, THEREFORE RESPONSE WAS EVEN BETTER. SO YOU COULD SEGREGATE PEOPLE ON BASIS OF MIR 21 STATUS AND SO, THIS IS ACTUALLY LEADING TO A CLINICAL TRIAL THAT WERE INVOLVED IN. AND, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT IN THESE KINDS OF STUDIES AND ALMOST ANY KINDS OF CLINICAL STUDIES OR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OR BIOMARKER STUDIES TO LOOK AT MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS. ARE THERE OTHER CO VARIANTS THAT ARE EITHER AN INDEPENDENT OR DEPENDENT ON THE ONE THAT YOU'RE PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN. SO MIR 21, IS INDEPENDENT OF ADJUVANT THERAPY, AND INDEPENDENT OF STAGE AS A MULTIVARIANT EACH THOUGH IT WAS AT A PROGNOSIS. SO HAVE YOU THERAPY THERAPY AND THIS HAS BEEN FOUND NOT ONLY IN LUNG CANCER AND COLON CANCER AND BY OTHERS BUT IN PANCREATIC CANCER, HEAD AND NECK CANCER, TONGUE CANCER, SIGNIFY TELOMERA AND CHRONIC LIMO SITTIC LEUKEMIA SO HAVING HIGH LEVELS OF MIR 21 IS NOT GOOD. AND THAT LED TO THE QUESTION, IS MIR21 AN ONCA GENE CAUSING CANCER. AND IS THERE ADDICTION TO MIR 21. AND CAN IT BE A PREVENTIVE OR A THERAPEUTIC TARGET. SO I WILL SHOW YOU A COUPLE THREE ANIMAL STUDIES RIGHTED NOW THAT PERTAIN THIS. THIS IS YALE, AND FRANK SHOWED THAT INCREASED MIR 21 EXPRESSION INDUCES PREE B LYMPHOMAS IN MICE, AND HE HAD A TELL ALL SYSTEM. SO THERE WAS DOCS, MIR21 WOULD BE TURNED OFF AND THAT'S THE GREEN LINE UP THERE WHICH IS THE SAME AS THE CONTROL. IF IT'S EXPRESSED OR ESSENTIALLY FROM THE LYMPHOMAS. NOW THE ONCA GENE ADDICTION, OR THE ONCA ADDICTION, YOU DO A DIFFERENT EXPERIMENT AND YOU WAIT TILL THE ANIMAL VS TUMORS. YOU CAN SEE AS I RECALLLY HERE, TUMORS GET SMALLER AND SMALLER AND SMALLER. MIR 21 INVOLVED IN THESE KINDS OF EXPERIMENTS IN CAUSING CANCER AND KEEPING CANCER DRIVING FORWARD. ANOTHER KIND OF EXPERIMENT, WAS DRIVEN AT SOUTHWESTERN IN THE BACK UP MODEL IN TYLER JACKSON DEVELOPED AT MIT, ON LUNG CANCER ENRICHED. IT'S OVEREXPRESSION OF KRAS, AND IN THIS EXPERIMENT, THEY FOUND THAT MIR 21 EXPRESSION INCREASES THE LUNG CANCER INCIDENCE TO„i KRAAS S MODEL AND THIS IS KRAS ALONE AND THIS IS THE OVEREXPRESSION OF THE TRANSGENE MIR 21. AND YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE NUMBER OF TUMORS, THE OPPOSITE IS TO KNOCK OUT MIR 21 AND MARRY THOSE ANIMALS WITH THE KRAS PRODUCING ANIMALS AND WHEN TIM DID THESE EXPERIMENTS HE FOUND THAT THIS IS THE USUAL NUMBER OF KRAS LUNG ADENOMAS OR CARCINOMAS, YOU CAN SEE THEM HERE. BUT, IF THIS IS IN A MIR 21 KNOCK OUT MOUSE, MARKEDLY DIMINISHED. NOW IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN MIR 21 AND INFLAMMATION? THAT'S WHAT--ONE ASPECT OF THIS TALK IS ALL ABOUT. SO RAS CAN LEAD TO AN INCREASE IN MIR 21 THROUGH THESE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND WHEN WE ANALYZE MIR 21 IN THE RAS INDUCED TUMORS IN WILD-TYPE MICE, WE FOUND THIS LEVEL BUT IN THE KNOCK OUT, IN THESE CASES, THE KNOCK OUT MOUSE, INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SIN TASE, MICE, WE FOUND IT WAS DECREASED AND ONE COULD DO INCITU HYBRIDIZATION AND THERE'S LESS HERE THAN THIS IS A SCRABBLE. THIS IS A CONTROL HERE, MIRAKA 21, MIR 21. MIR21. AND THESE MICE THAT AND KRASE MODEL. AND IF THEY'RE IN THE KNOCKOUT MICE, THEY LIVE LONGER. THAT'S SIGNIFICANT AND THEY HAD SMALLER TUMORS SO THESE ARE THE LUNG TUMORS FROM THE NOS TWO KNOCKOUT MICE, INCLUESED BY RAS, SMALLER, SMALLER, AND IT WAS HIGHER NUMBER OF KI 67 CELLS, MEASURE OF PROLIFERATION THIS THOSE THAT H. I.T THE WILD-TYPE AND TUMORS IN CARCINOMAS, BUT NOT IN ADENOMAS, IT WAS DECREASED IN THOSE KNOCK OUT. AND THIS IS JUST THE VISUALIZATION OF THIS, AND THIS IS WHAT THE IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY LOOKS LIKE. AND THEN LASTLY, INFLAMMATION. SO, WHAT ARE THE OBSERVATIONS THAT TYLER MADE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO BUT REALLY DIDN'T FOLLOW UP ON IS THAT IN THIS MODEL, THIS KRAS MODKNEEL WILD-TYPE MICE THERE,'S A LOT OF INFLAMMATION AND MACROPHAGES IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE AND HERE. IN THE KNOCKOUT MICE, THE NOS-TWO KNOCKOUT MICE, THE ALVEOLAR ASSESSINGS ARE FAIRLY CLEAR. AND THE NUMBER OF MACROPHAGES HERE CAN BE QUANTITATED VERSES THE KNOCK OUT. SO LET'S SUMMARIZE ALL THIS BEFORE GOING ON TO THE VERY LAST POINT. THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS--LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY, THERE'S A MECHANISTIC UNDERPINNING BETWEEN ALL OF THESE KINDS OF BIOMARKER STUDIES OF MIRAKA 21. ONE GENE APPLICATION IS OF THIS SITE IS FREQUENTLY FOUND A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT CANCERS, IT CAN BE SILENCED BY DNA METHYLATION, THE EGFR PATHWAY, FOR THE MUTATIONS IN THE EPIDERMAL GROWTH RECEPTOR PATHWAY AS WE SHOWED IN PNAS PAPER A COUPLE YEARS AGO WILL LEAD TO INCREASE OF MIR 21, ANDITE O KINE, INTERFERON THROUGH STAT THREE, A TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WILL UPREGULATE MIR 21. FOX O THREEA INH BITS VARIOUS TYPES OF GENOMIC STRESS, WHETHER IT'S FREE RADICALS OF THE OPTION VARIETY OR NITROGEN VARIETY PAPER WE JUST SUBMITTED OR IONIZING A RADIATION INCREASE FOR MIR 21 AND I'VE JUST LISTED SOME OF THE GENES THAT ARE TARGETING SYSTEM--THAT ARE TARGETS AND MIR 21 AND THEY'RE RELATED TO METASTASIS AND THESE ARE ESSENTIALLY ANTIMETASTASIS AND IN SOME CASES ANTITUMOR GENES AND MIR 21 PLAYS A ROLE IN INHIBITING ALL OF THESE BUT IN A PARTICULAR TUMOR IT MAY NOT BE ALL OF THEM. IT MAY BE A SUBSET OF THEM AND A DIFFERENT KIND OF TUMOR SUCH AS A LUNG TUMOR VERSES COLON CANCER THERE MAY BE SUBSETS. SO INFLAMMATION, OKAY, THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF STUDIES IN WHICH PEOPLE HAVE LOOKED AT INFLAMMATORY GENE EXPRESSION AND ASKED THE QUESTION, ARE THERE PROFILES FOR THOSE INFLAMMATORY GENES THAT PREDICT PROGNOSEIS? THIS IS A STUDY DONE BY SHIN WONG AND THEY FOUND IN LIVER CANCER A SET OF GENES THAT WERE OVEREXPRESSED THAT WERE ASSOCIATE WIDE POOR PROGNOSIS AND ALSO WITH RECURRENCE. AND THEN, MASA, ANOTHER JAPANESE FELLOW IN OUR GROUP STUDIED LUNG ADENO CARCINOMAS, AND FOUND THAT IN ONE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS, ALL STAGES, HUNDRED% SURVIVAL, ZERO% SURVIVAL FIVE YEARS THAT THIS INFLAMMATORY RISK WAS ASSOCIATE WIDE POOR SURVIVAL AND EVEN IN STAGE ONE, LUNG CANCER WHICH I SAID EARLIER IS WHAT WE'RE PARTICULARLY INTEREST TED IN SO LET'S GO BACK TO COLON CANCER AND INITIATION. TUMOR PROGRESSION AND MAY TAFT SIS, AND AS I MENTIONED A COUPLE TIMES CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES SUCH AS CROHN'S AND ULCRY COLITIS INCREASED THE RISK OF COLON CANCER AND NONSTEROIDAL ANTIINFLAMMATORY GENE, DRUG K'S REDUCE THE RISK TO COLON CANCER AND THERE ARE POLYMORPHISMS IN THE INFLAMMATORY GENES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH RISK AND FINALLY, THE PRESENCE OF INFLAMMATORY CELLS AND EXPRESSION OF GENES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH COLON CANCER PROGNOSIS. AND THIS IS ONE OF THE STUDIES AGAIN DONE BY AARON AND SHANE IN WHICH THE COMBINATION OF EXPRESSION OF THESE INFLAMMATORY GENES IN THE NONCANCEROUS COLON AS WELL AS IN THE CANCEROUS COLON TOGETHER ACCIDENT COOPERATE TO INFLUENCE INDIVIDUALS CANCER RISK AND THIS IS JUST SHOWN HERE, BREAKING THE HONG KONG COHORT INTO A HIGH INFLAMMATORY RISK, VERSES LOW AND THIS IS THE TRAINING AND VERY IMPORTANT TO VALIDATION CORHOOTER WHICH IS THE MARILYN COHORT, SO, HIGH INFLAMMATORY RISK FOR POOR PROGNOSIS COMPARED TO LOW INFLAMMATORY SCORE. SO WHY AM I SHOWING YOU THIS? WELL, IT'S TO SHOW YOU THE NEXT TWO OR THREE SLIDES. THAT'S PUTTING TOGETHER NONCODING RNAs AND CODING RNAs FOR PREDICTION OF PROGNOSIS. SO THESE ARE THE DATA I JUST SHOWED YOU. SO INFLAYATORY RISK, POOR PROGNOSIS, THEN LOW INFLAMMATORY RISK OR SHOWING YOU THE DATA ON MIR 21. AND THE COLON CANCERS AGAIN, HIGH MIR 21 ABOVE THE MEDIAN, POOR PRO PUT THEM TOGETHER BUT THERE ARE LOW AND LOW, SO THIS ONE PLUS THAT ONE EFFECTIVE PROGNOSIS IF EITHER ONE IS HIGH, THEN INTERMEDIATE PROGNOSIS IN BOTH ARE HIGH, MUCH FOR PROGNOSE AND I GUESS THOSE ARE CAP LANMEYER CREWS AND WE DO THE ANALYSIS TO SHOW THAT THE INFLAMMATORY RISK SCORE IS INDEPENDENT OF MIR 21 AND THEY'RE BOTH EACH INDEPENDENT OF TUMOR STAGE. SO WHAT'S THE PRINCIPLE HERE? I'VE SHOWN YOU PER COLON CANCER BUT THE SAME PRINCIPLE HOLDS FOR ESOPHAGEAL CANCER AND LUNG CANCER AND YOU CAN COMBINE CODING RNAs AND CODING RNAS AND COME UP WITH CAP LANMEYER KIRBS THAT LOOK LIKE THIS AND WHAT'S THE PRINCIPLE BEHIND THIS. WELL, BOTH OF THESE RNA CLASSES CONSIDER AN AAGREEMENT WILL GIVE YOU A MORE ROBUST PROGMOSTIC CLASSIFIER, BUT EACH MYTH CLASSIFYS SOME OF THE PATIENTS BUT THEY MISS CLASSIFIED DIFFERENT PATIENTS. SO I'LL SAY THAT ONCE MORE. IF THEY'RE TWO INDEPENDENT BIOMARKERS,„i STATISTICALLY MECHANISTICALLY THEY'RE INDEPENDENT BIOMARKERS. AND YOU ASK THE QUESTION, IF YOU PUT THE TWO TOGETHER WILL THEY GIVE YOU MORE OF A CLASSIFIER, IN THIS CASE, PROGNOSEIS, THE ANSWER IS YES. BUT WHY? AND THE„i REASON IS YOU MISSED EACH BIOMARKER DOES MISCLASSIFY SOME OF THE CASES. SO, NEXT TO THE VAST SLIDE, IMPLICATIONS OF MICRO RNAs INNATE IMMUNE MEDIATORS AND P53 ISOFORMS INSIDE AND SIGNALING PATHWAYS INVOLVE THE CARCINOGENESIS AND PROGRESSION, PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS IT'S EARLY OR LATE STAGE, PREDICTION OF ONE THERAPEUTIC OUTCOME, BUT SLACK AND ONE OF HIS POST DOCS HAVE A NATURE REVIEWS IN CANCER THAT JUST CAME OUT THIS MONTH. SO I WOULD DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THAT, REVIEW IN WHICH, YOU LOOKED AT DIFFERENT KINDS OF THERAPIES IN THE VALUE OF MICRO RNAs AND THEN, PREVENTION THERAPEUTIC TARGETING SYSTEMLES AND I THINK I--TARGETS AND I THINK I MENTIONED MOST PEOPLE WE WERE COLLABORATING WITH OR IN OUR GROUP HERE AT THE NCI. SO I THANK THEM AND WE'RE DONE. IF HAVE YOU ANY QUESTIONS I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE. [ APPLAUSE ] >> [INSIGNIFY CERNIBLE QUESTION FROM AUDIENCE ] >> NO. SO OVEREXPRESSION OF MIR 21 LEDS TO THOSE TUMORS AND ACTUAL IT WAS AN INTERESTING STORY--SEMIINTERESTING STORY. HE WAS TRYING TO GET NEUROLOGICAL TUMORS AND ENDED UP GETTING THESE PRECELL LYMPHOMAS. BUT IT WORKED OUT. HE GOT HIS NATURE PAPER ON IT. >> SO THEY WERE OVEREXPRESSED--AND THEN ... DID NOT, YEAH. SO THAT GAVE YOU THE CONTROL WHERE YOU ALLOW THE TUMORS TO GROW AND THEN YOU KNOCK DOWN MIR 21 AND THEY REROUTE. SO THAT'S THE ORCHGA TEAM ADDICTION, OR ONCA-MIR ADDICTION THAT WAS PREDICTED ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO WHEN IT WAS INITIALLY FOUND BY BERNIE WEINSTEIN AND OTHERS. AND THOSE ARE--THAT--THERE'S IMPLICATION OF THAT, THAT MEANS IT'S A VERY INTERESTING TARGET FOR THERAPY. NOT ONLY IS THE BIOMARKER BUT BUT IT'S AN INTERESTING TARGET FOR BIOTHERAPY AND THERE'S BEEN INTERESTING STUDIES DONE WITH BENNOGRAPHS AND--EXTEN O GRAPHS AND CULTURE AND IN THE NEXT YEAR OR SO, THERE WILL BE A CLINICAL STUDY STARTED WITH ANTIMIR 21. ANYTHING ELSE? SURE. >> [INAUDIBLE QUESTION FROM AUDIENCE ] >> YEAH. THAT'S--THAT THAT STUDY WAS DONE WITH NICOLE--I'M BLOCKING ON THE NAME RIGHT NOW WITH RADIATION SIMON--RADIATION ON ONCOLOGY BRANCH SO SHE JUST MOVED TO JEFFERSON AND ENGAGE INDEED THAT STUDY. --ENGAGED IN THAT STUDY. >> YES? >> [INAUDIBLE QUESTION FROM AUDIENCE ] >> OH YOU SHOULD TALK TO ONE OF MY CANCER PREVENTION FELLOWS. YES. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SHE'S DOING RIGHT NOW. >> IF YOU WERE GOING TO DEVELOP [INDISCERNIBLE] I FEEL LIKE [INDISCERNIBLE] YOU'RE SAYING THAT PLACE, BY KNOCKING THEM OUT, IT'S--[INDISCERNIBLE]. >> YEAH, IT'S A QUESTION OF CAUSATION AND WHETHER OR NOT IT'S A CONTINUATION, IT'S ASKING THAT QUESTION. I GAVE YOU THE LIST OF HOW MIR21 CAN BE UPREGULATED IN THE CANCERS, IT'S AMPPLIFICATION AND IN A WAY IT'S DOING A MECHANISTIC STUDY OF TRYING TO LINK CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OR GENE APPLICATION TO CAUSING CANCER AND WE FIND HIGH LEVELS OF MIR 21 IN HUMAN CANCERS AND HOPEFULLY IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE TELL BE KNOCKED DOWN IN THE HUMAN CANCERS AND WE'LL SEE IF IT REALLY--IT SHOWS ONCA GENE ADDICTION IN HUMAN CANCERS AND NOT JUST IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS. >> THANKS KURT, THAT WILL DO IT. [ APPLAUSE ]