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Road Map to Safe and Well-Designed De-escalation Trials of Systemic Adjuvant Therapy for Solid Tumors.
(AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2020-12-01)
An important challenge in the field of cancer is finding the balance between delivering effective treatments and avoiding adverse effects and financial toxicity caused by innovative, yet expensive, drugs. To address this, ...
Feasibility of magnetic resonance guided radiotherapy for the treatment of bladder cancer.
(ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2020-11-01)
Whole bladder magnetic resonance image-guided radiotherapy using the 1.5 Telsa MR-linac is feasible. Full online adaptive planning workflow based on the anatomy seen at each fraction was performed. This was delivered within ...
PIVOTALboost: A phase III randomised controlled trial of prostate and pelvis versus prostate alone radiotherapy with or without prostate boost (CRUK/16/018).
(ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2020-11-01)
•PIVOTALboost evaluates benefits/toxicity of pelvic node RT and focal boost dose escalation.•Unfavourable intermediate/high risk and bulky local disease are most likely to benefit.•Functional MRI imaging is used to select ...
Internal mammary node irradiation in breast cancer: does benefit outweigh risk?
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2020-12-01)
Unravelling the heterogeneity of soft tissue and bone sarcoma patients' health-related quality of life: a systematic literature review with focus on tumour location.
(ELSEVIER, 2020-01-01)
Patients with sarcoma experience many physical and psychological symptoms, adversely affecting their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). HRQoL assessment is challenging due to the diversity of the disease. This review ...
Vault RNAs: hidden gems in RNA and protein regulation.
(SPRINGER BASEL AG, 2020-10-15)
Non-coding RNAs are important regulators of differentiation during embryogenesis as well as key players in the fine-tuning of transcription and furthermore, they control the post-transcriptional regulation of mRNAs under ...
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on cancer immunotherapy in Italy: a survey of young oncologists.
(BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2020-01-01)
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has overwhelmed the health systems worldwide. Data regarding the impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients (CPs) undergoing or candidate for immune checkpoint ...
Immunomodulatory activity of IR700-labelled affibody targeting HER2.
(SPRINGERNATURE, 2020-10-20)
There is an urgent need to develop therapeutic approaches that can increase the response rate to immuno-oncology agents. Photoimmunotherapy has recently been shown to generate anti-tumour immunological responses by releasing ...
PIK3CA mutation enrichment and quantitation from blood and tissue.
(NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2020-10-13)
PIK3CA is one of the two most frequently mutated genes in breast cancers, occurring in 30-40% of cases. Four frequent 'hotspot' PIK3CA mutations (E542K, E545K, H1047R and H1047L) account for 80-90% of all PIK3CA mutations ...
Sirolimus for patients with progressive epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.
(WILEY, 2020-10-27)
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an ultrarare soft tissue sarcoma with limited literature to guide treatment. The results from a robust retrospective cohort study support the use of sirolimus for patients who have ...