Effect of Cerebral Infarction on the Risk of Synchronous Brain Metastasis: Analysis of 307 Consecutive Patients of Newly Diagnosed Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

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Purpose and Significance of Study: This study attempted to determine the effect of cerebral infarction on the risk of brain metastasis (BM) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The results could offer a promising approach for the prevention, prognostic evaluation, and therapy of BM in NSCLC patients.

 

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Clinical Oncology and Research.

The manuscript contains some minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof), which are listed below –

 

The common errors are –

·       Omission of articles, e.g., “the” before “control” in the 2^nd sentence of the Methods in the Abstract, “a” before “promising” in the 2^nd sentence of the Conclusions in the Abstract, and so on.

·       Omission of “,”, e.g., after “CI” in the 1^st sentence of Results in the Abstract, after “studies” in the 1^st sentence of the 3^rd paragraph of Introduction, and so on.

·       “What’s more” sounds informal; so, it must be replaced with “Moreover”.

·       Shorthand like “it’s” must be avoided, to maintain the formal tone.

·       Using the wrong tense, e.g., “was” must be replaced with “is” in the 1^st sentence of the Background in the Abstract, “may” must be replaced with “might” in the 3^rd sentence of the last paragraph of the Discussion, and so on.

·       Using the wrong number, e.g., “cancer cell” must be replaced with “cancer cells” in the 5^th sentence of the 2^nd paragraph of the Introduction, “were” must be replaced with “was” in the 3^rd sentence of Data collection in the Patients and Methods, and so on.

The other errors are –

In the Abstract –

  Under Background –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “was” must be replaced with “aimed to”.

In the Introduction –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “a” must be inserted before “median”.

·       In the 4^th sentence, “that the…brain” must be replaced with “of metastasis to the brain, the most common site of distant metastasis of lung cancer,”.

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 4^th sentence, “Long-term” must be replaced with “For a long time”, and “been” must be inserted after “has”.

  In the 3^rd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “induce” must be replaced with “induced”.

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “worse” must be replaced with “worsen”.

In the Patients and Methods –

  Under The diagnosis of CI –

·       In the heading, “the” must be removed.

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “Specially” must be replaced with “especially”.

  Under Statistical analysis –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “by” must be replaced with “using”, “,” before “other” must be replaced with “;”, and “using” must be inserted before “either”.

·       In the 5^th sentence, “statistical” must be replaced with “statistically”.

In the Results –

  Under Characteristics of NSCLC patient –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “divided” must be replaced with “categorized”.

·       In the 4^th sentence, “psychiatrical” must be replaced with “psychiatric”.

·       In the 8^th sentence, “significantly” must be replaced with “significant”.

  Under Dynamically tracing of CI as metastatic niche to promote BM of NSCLC –

·       In the heading, “dynamically” must be replaced with “Dynamic”.

In the Discussion –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “that” must be removed.

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “incoming the” must be replaced with “the incoming”.

  In the 3^rd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “a” must be removed.

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “a” must be replaced with “the”.

  In the 5^th paragraph –

·       In the 5^th sentence, “arrest” must be replaced with “arrested”.

In the Conclusion –

·       In the last sentence, “in” before “NSCLC” must be removed.

Author Info

Dandan Zhou Haijun Zhang Hongming Zhang Wenwen Xu

Corresponding Author

Haijun Zhang
Department of Oncology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R.China

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 24, Apr 2020
Accepted: Fri 08, May 2020
Published: Thu 14, May 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Haijun Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2020.05.07