Department of Pharmacology (National Key Laboratory of Frigid Zone Cardiovascular Diseases, the State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research, Ministry of Education), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Cardiology Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
J Cell Mol Med. 2024 Sep;28(18):e70094. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.70094.
Cancer is the leading public health problem worldwide. However, the side effects accompanying anti-cancer therapies, particularly those pertaining to cardiotoxicity and adverse cardiac events, have been the hindrances to treatment progress. Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is one of the major clinic manifestations of the anti-cancer drug associated cardiac dysfunction. Therefore, elucidating the relationship between the LQTS and cancer is urgently needed. Transcriptomic sequencing data and clinic information of 10,531 patients diagnosed with 33 types of cancer was acquired from TCGA database. A pan-cancer applicative gene prognostic model was constructed based on the LQTS gene signatures. Meanwhile, transcriptome data and clinical information from various cancer types were collected from the GEO database to validate the robustness of the prognostic model. Furthermore, the expression level of transcriptomes and multiple clinical features were integrated to construct a Nomo chart to optimize the prognosis model. The ssGSEA analysis was employed to analysis the correlation between the LQTS gene signatures, clinic features and cancer associated signalling pathways. Our findings revealed that patients with lower LQTS gene signatures enrichment levels exhibit a poorer prognosis. The correlation of enrichment levels with the typical pathways was observed in multiple cancers. Then, based on the 17 LQTS gene signatures, we construct a prognostic model through the machine-learning approaches. The results obtained from the validation datasets and training datasets indicated that our prognostic model can effectively predict patient outcomes across diverse cancer types. Finally, we integrated this model with clinical features into a nomogram, demonstrating its potential as a valuable prognostic tool for cancer patients. Our study sheds light on the intricate relationship between LQTS and cancer pathways. A LQTS feature based clinic decision tool was developed aiming to enhance precision treatment of cancer.
癌症是全球主要的公共卫生问题。然而,抗癌疗法伴随的副作用,特别是与心脏毒性和不良心脏事件相关的副作用,一直是治疗进展的障碍。长 QT 综合征(LQTS)是抗癌药物相关心脏功能障碍的主要临床表现之一。因此,迫切需要阐明 LQTS 与癌症之间的关系。从 TCGA 数据库中获取了 10531 名被诊断患有 33 种癌症的患者的转录组测序数据和临床信息。基于 LQTS 基因特征构建了一个泛癌症适用的基因预后模型。同时,从 GEO 数据库中收集了来自各种癌症类型的转录组数据和临床信息,以验证预后模型的稳健性。此外,整合了转录组的表达水平和多个临床特征来构建 Nomo 图表以优化预后模型。ssGSEA 分析用于分析 LQTS 基因特征、临床特征和癌症相关信号通路之间的相关性。我们的研究结果表明,LQTS 基因特征富集水平较低的患者预后较差。在多种癌症中观察到与典型途径的富集水平的相关性。然后,我们基于 17 个 LQTS 基因特征,通过机器学习方法构建了一个预后模型。从验证数据集和训练数据集获得的结果表明,我们的预后模型可以有效地预测不同癌症类型的患者结局。最后,我们将该模型与临床特征整合到一个诺莫图中,表明其作为癌症患者有价值的预后工具的潜力。我们的研究揭示了 LQTS 与癌症途径之间的复杂关系。开发了基于 LQTS 特征的临床决策工具,旨在增强癌症的精准治疗。