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Presence of human breast cancer xenograft changes the diurnal profile of amino acids in mice.
(NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2022-01-19)
Human xenografts are extremely useful models to study the biology of human cancers and the effects of novel potential therapies. Deregulation of metabolism, including changes in amino acids (AAs), is a common characteristic ...
European experts consensus: BRCA/homologous recombination deficiency testing in first-line ovarian cancer.
(ELSEVIER, 2022-03-01)
BACKGROUND: Homologous recombination repair (HRR) enables fault-free repair of double-stranded DNA breaks. HRR deficiency is predicted to occur in around half of high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas. Ovarian cancers ...
Development of a Disease-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire (DTF-QoL) for Patients with Desmoid-Type Fibromatosis.
(MDPI, 2022-01-29)
Sporadic desmoid-type fibromatosis (DTF) is a rare, non-metastasising soft-tissue tumour. Patients can experience a variety of disease-specific issues related to the unpredictable clinical course and aggressiveness of DTF, ...
Combined Perioperative Lapatinib and Trastuzumab in Early HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Identifies Early Responders: Randomized UK EPHOS-B Trial Long-Term Results.
(AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2022-04-01)
PURPOSE: EPHOS-B aimed to determine whether perioperative anti-HER2 therapy inhibited proliferation and/or increased apoptosis in HER2-positive breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This randomized phase II, two-part, ...
Early phase clinical trials extension to guidelines for the content of statistical analysis plans.
(BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2022-02-07)
This paper reports guidelines for the content of statistical analysis plans for early phase clinical trials, ensuring specification of the minimum reporting analysis requirements, by detailing extensions (11 new items) and ...
Retrospective analysis of North West London healthcare utilisation by children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2022-01-01)
OBJECTIVE: To explore the impact of the measures taken to combat COVID-19 on the patterns of acute illness in children presenting to primary and secondary care for North West London. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: Retrospective ...
Frailty in Very Elderly Patients is Not Associated with Adverse Surgical or Oncological Outcomes in Extremity Surgery for Soft Tissue Sarcoma.
(SPRINGER, 2022-02-03)
BACKGROUND: While surgery remains the mainstay of treatment for limb sarcoma, extreme old age is a relative contraindication to oncological surgery. METHODS: Patients >80 years referred with primary extremity soft-tissue ...
Health-Related Quality of Life and Side Effects in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) Patients Treated with Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
(MDPI, 2022-04-05)
BACKGROUND: The introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) has revolutionized the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), resulting in a substantial gain in median overall survival. Subsequently, ...
Hallmarks of Resistance to Immune-Checkpoint Inhibitors.
(AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2022-04-01)
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), although revolutionary in improving long-term survival outcomes, are mostly effective in patients with immune-responsive tumors. Most patients with cancer either do not respond to ICIs ...
Precision-Cut Tumor Slices (PCTS) as an Ex Vivo Model in Immunotherapy Research.
(MDPI, 2022-04-06)
Precision-cut tumor slices (PCTS) have recently emerged as important ex vivo human tumor models, offering the opportunity to study individual patient responses to targeted immunotherapies, including CAR-T cell therapies. ...