Aortic Arch Floating Thrombus Complicated by Distal Embolization in a Patient with Malignancy by Konstantinos Tigkiropoulos, Dimitrios Karamanos, Marianthi Tympanidou, Nikolaos Saratzis, Ioannis Lazaridis

“…We present the case of a 52-years-old patient with ovarian cancer and aortic arch floating thrombus who initially managed with low molecular weight heparin and eventually undergone surgical thrombectomy of left external iliac and common femoral artery due to acute ischemia of left lower leg.…”
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Identification of neoantigens derived from alternative splicing and RNA modification by Jiyeon Park, Yeun-Jun Chung

“…The acquisition of somatic mutations is the most common event in cancer. Neoantigens expressed from genes with mutations acquired during carcinogenesis can be tumor-specific. …”
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Diagnosis of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Using Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle by Abdullah Fahad Almsareer, Ahmed Zaid Alkhathlan, Doaa Ali AlGhamdi, Khalid Alokla

“…Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial biopsy has emerged as an excellent tool in diagnosing lung cancer. However, its use to diagnose lymphoma has been questioned, since the gold standard for diagnosing lymphomas is an excisional biopsy of involved lymph nodes. …”
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Clinical and genetic characteristics and medical approach in attenuated form of familial adenomatosis of the colon by A. M. Kuzminov, A. V. Karpukhin, I. Yu. Sachkov, Yu. Yu. Chubarov, T. A. Savel’yeva

“…For this variant of adenomatosis absence of metabolic disorders and development of cancer after 50 years is typical that requires onset of treatment by endoscopic polypectomy with subsequent extensive resections of the colon if necessary.…”
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Antiapoptotic Molecule Survivin in Transplantation: Helpful or Harmful? by Sara Assadiasl, Mohammad Javad Mousavi, Aliakbar Amirzargar

“…Survivin, an antiapoptotic molecule from inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family, is most known for its implication in cancer as there are some efforts to apply it for diagnostic as well as therapeutic purposes in oncology. …”
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Basal cell carcinoma. Case presentation by Yusdenia G. Soto Serrano, Jeyffry E. García Castillo, Eduardo L. Hernández Peña, Aimeé Seife Echevarría

“…Basal cell carcinoma, tumor which derives from the cells that constitute the epidermis basal layer, is the most frequent type of skin cancer and affects generally aged people. It is presented a case of a 90 year old patient, with previous history of cutaneous carcinoma on the left shoulder, presented to the opthalmology consultation complaining of volume increasing, irritation and redness in the lower eyelid of the right eye. …”
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Recent Advances in Electrochemical Glycobiosensing by Germarie Sánchez-Pomales, Rebecca A. Zangmeister

“…These glyco-biosensors offer simple, rapid, sensitive, and economical approaches to the measurement need for rapid glycan analysis for biomarker detection, cancer and disease diagnostics, and bioprocess monitoring of therapeutic glycoproteins. …”
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Occult Breast Carcinoma Presenting as Gastrointestinal Metastases by Lonzetta Neal, Nicole Sookhan, Carol Reynolds

“…In extremely rare situations, cancerous lesions identified in the gastrointestinal tract have been determined to be metastatic lesions from primary breast cancers, Taal et al. (2000). …”
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A Patient Presenting with Cardiac Tamponade and the Challenges of Finding Its Cause: A Cardiac Angiosarcoma by Roshanak Habibi, Negar Faramarzi, Alvaro J. Altamirano, Shahriar Dadkhah

“…A multimodality approach was attempted to treat the cancer. The clinical details of such a unique disease entity inspired us to present it as a case report.…”
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Systemic and Splanchnic Lipopolysaccharide and Endothelin-1 Plasma Levels in Liver Cirrhosis before and after Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt by Jiaxiang Meng, Qing Wang, Kai Liu, Shuofei Yang, Xinxin Fan, Baochen Liu, Changsheng He, Xingjiang Wu

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Incorporating Colour Information for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Melanoma from Dermoscopy Images: A Retrospective Survey and Critical Analysis by Ali Madooei, Mark S. Drew

“…Cutaneous melanoma is the most life-threatening form of skin cancer. Although advanced melanoma is often considered as incurable, if detected and excised early, the prognosis is promising. …”
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Right Breast Mastectomy and Reconstruction with Tissue Expander under Thoracic Paravertebral Blocks in a 12-Week Parturient by Christopher Allen-John Webb, Paul David Weyker, Shara Cohn, Amanda Wheeler, Jennifer Lee

“…We describe the anesthetic management of an otherwise healthy woman who was 12 weeks pregnant presenting for treatment of her breast cancer. For patients undergoing breast mastectomy and reconstruction with tissue expanders, paravertebral blocks offer an anesthetic alternative when general anesthesia is not desired.…”
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Why Rebuild on Toxic, Sinking Ground?: The Challenges for Disaster Recovery in Southeast Louisiana by Jamie Lynn Chan

“…Through combining historical and ethnographic insights from the Black residents in Cancer Alley, the Vietnamese refugee community in New Orleans East, and the Indigenous tribal members of the Grand Bayou Village, this article argues that marginalized landscapes and livelihoods have been structurally made to become untenable within the economic bounds of disaster recovery. …”
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A rare case of renal cystic oncocytoma: Case report by Mohamed Lameir, Ahmed Mustafa, Jouhar Kolleri, Akram Twair, Mohammed Akhtar, Sali Alatasi

“…Renal oncocytomas are relatively benign renal tumours, accounting for approximately 5 % of primary adult epithelial kidney neoplasms that are surgically removed.The Bosniak classification is used to assist in estimating the probability of cancer and make recommendations for therapy or subsequent studies. …”
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Importance of Human Faecal Biobanking: From Collection to Storage by Lewandowska Izabela, Grzech Katarzyna, Krzysztoń-Russjan Jolanta

“…The review includes research on faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), microbiome analysis, ‘-omics’ research, cancer and parasites. The primary topic addressed in this research is the impact of storage conditions and freezing methods for faecal samples on the stability and diversity of the gut microbiome. …”
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A Group Feature Screening Procedure Based on Pearson Chi-Square Statistic for Biology Data with Categorical Response by Hanji He, Jianfeng He, Guangming Deng

“…In the application of lung cancer diagnosis, the proposed method for imbalanced data categorization is impressive, and the dimension reduction using linear discriminant is still good.…”
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Personalization of thiopurine therapy: Current recommendations and future perspectives by Urbančič Dunja, Pasha Flaka, Šmid Alenka, Mlinarič-Raščan Irena

“…Despite great therapeutic advances in the field of biologics, small synthetic molecules such as thiopurines, including azathioprine, mercaptopurine, and thioguanine, remain an important therapeutic pillar in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, other autoimmune disorders, and cancer. This review presents the latest guidelines for thiopurine administration, highlighting the importance of individualized therapy guided by pharmacogenomics. …”
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Bioavailability and Bioactivity of Alkylresorcinols from Different Cereal Products by Shuangqi Tian, Yue Sun, Zhicheng Chen, Renyong Zhao

“…The bioactive substance alkylresorcinols (ARs) present in the whole cereal can inhibit enzyme activity, prevent bacterial or fungal infection, reduce cholesterol absorption, prevent cancer, and resist oxidation. In this paper, we discussed the biological activity of ARs in whole cereal products. …”
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R Inguinal/R Scrotum Extramammary Paget’s Disease with Diffuse Spine Metastasis Complicated by Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia by Alay Mansurov, Eric Christenson

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Mitochondrial Acetylation and Diseases of Aging by Gregory R. Wagner, R. Mark Payne

“…The implications of mitochondrial acetylation for the aging process will be discussed, as well as its potential implications for the unique and localized metabolic states that occur during the aging-associated conditions of heart failure and cancer growth.…”
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