Efficacy and Safety of Bintrafusp Alfa, a Bifunctional Fusion Protein Targeting Transforming Growth Factor-β and Programmed Death-Ligand 1, Plus Chemotherapy in Patients With Stage... by Christian Rolfo, MD, PhD, Laurent Greillier, MD, PhD, Remi Veillon, MD, PhD, Firas Badin, MD, MBA, Francois Ghiringhelli, MD, PhD, Nicolas Isambert, MD, PhD, Astrid Paulus, MD, PhD, Surendra Pal Chaudhary, MD, Yulia Vugmeyster, PhD, Masashi Sato, MSc, Sandrine Hiret, MD, PhD

“…In cohorts A+B+C, the overall response rate was 48.3%, and in patients with PD-L1 tumor proportion score of more than or equal to 50.0%, it was 71.4%. …”
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Stabilizing versus Destabilizing the Microtubules: A Double-Edge Sword for an Effective Cancer Treatment Option? by Daniele Fanale, Giuseppe Bronte, Francesco Passiglia, Valentina Calò, Marta Castiglia, Florinda Di Piazza, Nadia Barraco, Antonina Cangemi, Maria Teresa Catarella, Lavinia Insalaco, Angela Listì, Rossella Maragliano, Daniela Massihnia, Alessandro Perez, Francesca Toia, Giuseppe Cicero, Viviana Bazan

“…Clinical application of earlier microtubule inhibitors, however, unfortunately showed several limits, such as neurological and bone marrow toxicity and the emergence of drug-resistant tumor cells. Here we review several natural and synthetic microtubule-targeting agents, which showed antitumor activity and increased efficacy in comparison to traditional drugs in various preclinical and clinical studies. …”
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Impact of Helicobacter pylori infection on neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced gastric cancer: a retrospective analysis by Bin Zhong, Zhizhong Xiong, Jiabo Zheng, Saddam Ahmed Mohamed, Jiachen Sun, Dayin Huang, Zijian Deng, Jianping Guo, Junsheng Peng, Huashe Wang, Lei Lian

“…Conclusion This cohort study indicated that H. pylori infection may be associated with tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and survival outcomes in patients with LAGC.…”
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Sodium Butyrate: A Multifaceted Modulator in Colorectal Cancer Therapy by Alexandra Laura Mederle, Alexandra Semenescu, George Andrei Drăghici, Cristina Adriana Dehelean, Nicolae-Valentin Vlăduț, Dragoş Vasile Nica

“…<i>Conclusions</i>: NaB can modulate critical apoptotic and cell cycle genes, disrupt tumor cell proliferation, and overcome resistance mechanisms associated with anti-apoptotic regulators such as <i>MCL-1</i>. …”
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Downregulation of hnRNPA1 inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma cell progression by modulating alternative splicing of ZNF207 exon 9 by Qi Ouyang, Qi Ouyang, Wenhui He, Yiping Guo, Lin Li, Ying Mao, Xiang Li, Shuanglin Xiang, Xiang Hu, Jun He

“…Our study investigated the role of hnRNPA1 in HCC and its potential as a therapeutic target.MethodsWe analyzed hnRNPA1 expression in HCC tissues compared to non-tumor tissues using RNA-seq and immunohistochemistry. hnRNPA1 was knocked down in Hep G2 cells to assess its impact on cell proliferation, migration, and apoptosis using scratch assays, flow cytometry, qPCR, and Western blot. …”
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The Clinical Characteristics, Patterns of Recurrence, and Long-Term Survival Outcomes of Dual-Phenotype Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Curative Liver Resection by Yu ZC, Fang ZK, Yu Y, Liu SY, Wang KD, Shi ZJ, Jin LM, Huang XK, Lu Y, Shen GL, Liu JW, Huang DS, Zhang CW, Liang L

“…Meanwhile, among patients with tumor recurrence after surgery, patients with DPHCC have a higher proportion of advanced-stage tumors, and extrahepatic metastasis (all P < 0.05). …”
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INTRAPERITONEAL AEROSOL CHEMOTHERAPY UNDER PRESSURE (IACUP) – AN INNOVATIVE METHOD OF TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS by A. D. Kaprin, V. M. Khomyakov, A. B. Ryabov, L. V. Bolotina, A. V. Ivanov, A. B. Utkina, V. V. Cheremisov, I. V. Kolobaev, A. V. Chaika, D. D. Sobolev, L. A. Koroleva

“…The treatment Protocol consisted of a laparotomy or laparoscopy for the staging of the tumor process, 3–4 courses of systemic chemotherapy scheme XELOX followed by conducting at least 3 sessions of intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy under pressure (IACUP) with an interval of 6 weeks on the background of chemotherapy. …”
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Absent in melanoma 2: a potent suppressor of retinal pigment epithelial-mesenchymal transition and experimental proliferative vitreoretinopathy by Yu Chen, Mingyuan Jiang, Liping Li, Shanshan Yang, Zuimeng Liu, Shiwen Lin, Wanxiao Wang, Jinyang Li, Feng Chen, Qiang Hou, Xiaoyin Ma, Ling Hou

“…Abstract Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a critical and complex process involved in normal embryonic development, tissue regeneration, and tumor progression. It also contributes to retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). …”
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Key considerations based on pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic in the design of antibody-drug conjugates by Yangyang Gao, Yuwei Xia, Yixin Chen, Shiqi Zhou, Yingying Fang, Jieru Yu, Leyin Zhang, Leyin Zhang, Leitao Sun, Leitao Sun, Leitao Sun

“…Through the selection of target antigen, the optimization of the linker, the optimization of novel small molecule toxins as payload, the optimization of ADC, overcoming the multi-drug resistance of ADC, improving the ADC tumor penetration of ADC, surface modification of ADC and surface bystander effect of ADC provide a more comprehensive and accurate framework for designing new ADCs.ResultsWe’ve expounded comprehensively on applying pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics while designing ADC to obtain higher efficacy and fewer side effects. …”
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A methotrexate labelled dual metal oxide nanocomposite for long-lasting anti-cancer theranostics by Joyce L.Y. Tang, Shehzahdi S. Moonshi, Yuao Wu, Gary Cowin, Karla X. Vazquez- Prada, Huong D.N. Tran, Andrew C. Bulmer, Hang Thu Ta

“…Intravenous infusion of Chit-IOCO-MTX-Cy5 (5 mg/kg MTX) led to significant tumor growth inhibition, indicating a synergistic enhancement of anti-cancer effects when combining MTX and nanoceria, compared to free MTX or nanoceria without MTX conjugation. …”
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Global research landscape and hotspots for ferroptosis in glioma: A comprehensive bibliometric and visual analysis by Xinyue Zheng, Mengyao Diao, Shan Tong, Shuo Yang, Jing Lin, Shenghua Zhuo, Ting Wang, Jian Dai, Shenbo Chen, Kai Wang

“…Visual keyword analysis highlighted ''tumor biology'' ''cell death mechanisms'' and ''gene expression and metabolic processes'' as central themes in the research network. …”
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OLIG2 mediates a rare targetable stem cell fate transition in sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma by Kinjal Desai, Siyi Wanggou, Erika Luis, Heather Whetstone, Chunying Yu, Robert J. Vanner, Hayden J. Selvadurai, Lilian Lee, Jinchu Vijay, Julia E. Jaramillo, Jerry Fan, Paul Guilhamon, Michelle Kushida, Xuejun Li, Gregory Stein, Santosh Kesari, Benjamin D. Simons, Xi Huang, Peter B. Dirks

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Uncertainty quantification in multi-parametric MRI-based meningioma radiotherapy target segmentation by Lana Wang, Zhenyu Yang, Zhenyu Yang, Dominic LaBella, Zachary Reitman, John Ginn, Jingtong Zhao, Justus Adamson, Kyle Lafata, Kyle Lafata, Kyle Lafata, Evan Calabrese, John Kirkpatrick, Chunhao Wang

“…PurposeThis work investigates the use of a spherical projection-based U-Net (SPU-Net) segmentation model to improve meningioma segmentation performance and allow for uncertainty quantification.MethodsA total of 76 supratentorial meningioma patients treated with radiotherapy were studied. Gross tumor volumes (GTVs) were contoured by a single experienced radiation oncologist on high-resolution contrast-enhanced T1 MRI scans (T1ce), and both T1 and T1ce images were utilized for segmentation. …”
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Perioperative pembrolizumab in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): safety, efficacy, and exploratory biomarker analysis by Jeff Clarke, Xiaofei Wang, Thomas Stinchcombe, Scott J Antonia, Jeffrey Crawford, Neal Ready, Konstantin H Dragnev, Lin Gu, Cameron Wood, James M Isaacs, Liliana Lyniv, Kent Weinhold, Jacob M Kaufman, Eziafa I Oduah, Betty C Tong, Dennis Wigle

“…Major pathological response (MPR) was found in seven tumors (28%) including two complete responses (4%). …”
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Fabrication of Nano-Silver Composite Using Amomum longiligulare Fruit Polysaccharides and Their Biological Activities by Lian Y, Ma N, Cheng Q, Luo M, Xu Z, He F, Zhou X, Zhang Y, Jin D, Kong Y, Wang Y, Wei N

“…Yong Lian,1,&ast; Ning Ma,2,&ast; Qianying Cheng,1,&ast; Mingquan Luo,1 Zhen Xu,1 Fei He,1 Xiaomei Zhou,1 Ying Zhang,1 Dejun Jin,1 Yidan Kong,1 Yong Wang,1 Na Wei1 1Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of R&D on Tropical Herbs, Engineering Research Center of Tropical Medicine Innovation and Transformation of Ministry of Education, International Joint Research Center of Human-Machine Intelligent Collaborative for Tumor Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Hainan Province, School of Pharmacy, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199, People’s Republic of China; 2Reproductive Medical Center, Hainan Women and Children’s Medical Center, Haikou, Hainan Province, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Na Wei; Yong Wang, Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of R&D on Tropical Herbs, School of Pharmacy, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199, People’s Republic of China, Email weina-0613@163.com; wangyong1982_2004@163.comPurpose: Study aims to optimize the synthesis conditions for silver nanoparticle composites [ALP(D)-AgNPs] using a rapid and environmentally friendly method and investigate the antioxidant, antibacterial, and anticancer activities of the fabricated composite.Methods: The polysaccharide component ALP-D was extracted and purified from the fruits of Amomum longiligulare and subsequently used for further experiments. …”
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TOPBP1 as a potential predictive biomarker for enhanced combinatorial efficacy of olaparib and AZD6738 in PDAC by Xiao-Mei Tang, Min-Min Shi, Jia-Cheng Wang, Yi-Jin Gu, Yu-Ting Dai, Qin-Xin Yang, Jia Liu, Ling-Jie Ren, Xin-Yun Liu, Chun Yang, Fang-Fang Ma, Ji-Bing Liu, Hong Yu, Da Fu, Yun-Feng Wang

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Hypofractionated partial breast irradiation after breast-conserving surgery for patients with early stage breast cancer in China Mainland: a single-arm prospective trial by Xiaomeng Zhang, Xiaofang Wang, Zhuohua Xu, Yajuan Chu, Xingxing Chen, Li Zhang, Jin Meng, Wei Shi, Zhaozhi Yang, Xin Mei, Xiaoli Yu, Zhen Zhang, Xiaomao Guo, Miao Mo, Guangyu Liu, Jiong Wu, Zhimin Shao, Jinli Ma

“…The primary endpoint was 3-year cosmetic deterioration, and secondary endpoints included adverse events, ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR), regional recurrence, and survivals. …”
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Adipose tissue may not be a major player in the inflammatory pathogenesis of Autism Spectrum Disorder by Baojiang Wang, Yueyuan Qin, Yong Chen, Xiujie Zheng, Yanjuan Chen, Juan Zhao, Feng Zhang, Shan Duan

“…However, markedly elevated levels of IL-6, IL-8, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) were detected in children with ASD, suggesting that the inflammatory state is independent of adipokines. …”
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Enhanced expression of ten‐eleven translocation 1 reverses gemcitabine resistance in cholangiocarcinoma accompanied by a reduction in P‐glycoprotein expression by Chuanxu Wang, Hua Ye, Lei Zhang, Yayu Cheng, Shifeng Xu, Ping Zhang, Zijie Zhang, Jimin Bai, Fangkang Meng, Lin Zhong, Guangjun Shi, Hao Li

“…And then, the possible effect of TET1 on the expression of P‐gp was examined by western blot analysis. Xenograft tumor experiment was conducted to confirm the association between TET1 and P‐gp expression under gemcitabine chemoresistance. …”
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In situ detection of piRNA‐651 in exosomes and cells for cancer diagnosis by a new gold nanoparticle nucleic acid probe by Qin‐Xin Gao, Qian‐Qian Wu, Zhi‐Ying Dong, Xiao‐Yuan Qin, Lin‐Yan Zhai, Bao‐Ping Xie, Wen‐Jun Duan

“…Abstract Increasing studies have demonstrated that PIWI‐interacting RNAs (piRNAs) in circulating exosomes can serve as novel molecular biomarkers for tumor liquid biopsy. However, methods for in situ detection of piRNAs encased in exosomes are limited. …”
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