CXC Chemokines in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Disease and Pharmacological Relevance by Kayode Komolafe, Maricica Pacurari

“…The current review presents the understanding of the roles of CXC ligands (CXCLs) and their cognate receptors (CXCRs) in the pathogenesis of several lung diseases such as allergic rhinitis, COPD, lung fibrosis, lung cancer, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. The potential therapeutic benefits of pharmacological or other CXCL/CXCR axis manipulations are also discussed.…”
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Genetic evidence for the causal effects of air pollution on the risk of respiratory diseases by Yanjuan Wu, Yuting Zhang, Jingcun Wang, Qiming Gan, Xiaofen Su, Sun Zhang, Yutong Ding, Xinyan Yang, Nuofu Zhang, Kang Wu

“…Results: TSMR analysis revealed that exposure to PM2.5 increased the risk of early-onset chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, pulmonary embolism and lung cancer. PM2.5–10 exposure was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer, while PM10 exposure increased the risk of pneumonia and bronchiectasis. …”
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of surgical resection for brain metastases from lung adenocarcinoma by Ming Li, Zhiying Li, Hang Zhang, Hiroaki Wakimoto, Linlin Sun, Tiantian Wang, Shengli Zhou, Liyun Zhou

“…Only 5 patients (2.4%) had received lung cancer treatment before craniotomy. The intracranial location of BM was mostly in the frontal lobe (54, 26.0%) and the metastatic sites were mostly single (117, 56.3%); the metastatic tumor size was mostly between 2-5 cm (141, 67.8%). …”
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Radiation Pneumonitis after Radiotherapy of Neck Lymphoma by Min Wei, Jun Cai, Tao Tong, Shihua Yu, Yonghua Yang, Weijia Zhang, Jiyuan Yang

“…In routine work, radiation pneumonitis (RP) is the most significant complication of acute treatment-related toxicities in lung cancer; however, serious radioactive pneumonia is rare for the radiotherapy of neck lymphoma because the volume of the lungs affected by radiation dose was very small. …”
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Sintilimab for the treatment of lung adenocarcinoma-induced immune-related hypophysitis: a case report by Ming-xing Wang, Ai-xin Liu, Qing-ming Sun, Wan-hui Dong

“…This report describes a case of a lung cancer patient who, after receiving chemotherapy in combination with the programmed death-1 (PD-1) inhibitor sintilimab, presented with systemic fatigue, alterations in mental and behavioral patterns, somnolence, and symptoms of diabetes insipidus, leading to a diagnosis of grade 4 immune-related hypophysitis. …”
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Metastases to the Thyroid Presenting as a Metabolically Inactive Incidental Thyroid Nodule with Stable Size in 15 Months by Subhashini Yaturu, Raina A. Patel

“…A 63-year-old male with history of adenocarcinoma of the right lobe lung (5 years prior to presentation), treated with surgery and chemotherapy, followed by new adenosquamous lung cancer in the left lobe of the lung (one year prior to presentation), treated surgically followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, was referred to Endocrinology section for evaluation of an incidental thyroid nodule on CT chest. …”
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Methods for preliminary determination of pemetrexed in macromolecular drug-carrier systems by Ciekot Jarosław, Goszczyński Tomasz Marek, Boratyński Janusz

“…Pemetrexed (PMX) is an antifolate drug utilized in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. For studies of potential macromolecular carriers for PMX, fast and precise methods were developed to determine the bound and free drug contained in investigated conjugate preparations. …”
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Complete Disappearance of Choroidal Metastasis from Lung Adenocarcinoma Treated with Bevacizumab and Chemotherapy by Hampig Raphael Kourie, Joelle Antoun, Alexandre Schakal, Elie Nasr, Marwan Sahyoun, Joseph Kattan

“…Choroidal metastasis from lung cancer is uncommon. We report a case of choroidal metastasis as an inaugural manifestation of lung adenocarcinoma, successfully treated by docetaxel, cisplatinum, and intravenous bevacizumab as an antiangiogenesis therapy. …”
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Assessment of Knowledge on Side Effects Among Cancer Patients Receiving Radiotherapy in Selected Hospitals of West Bengal by Sukanya Chowdhury, Chayan Paul

“… Background and Aim Approximately 20 million new cases of cancer and 9.7 million cancer deaths will occur in 2022. Lung cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer. …”
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Assessing the influence of the modifiable areal unit problem on Bayesian disease mapping in Queensland, Australia. by Farzana Jahan, Shovanur Haque, James Hogg, Aiden Price, Conor Hassan, Wala Areed, Helen Thompson, Jessica Cameron, Susanna M Cramb

“…<h4>Methods</h4>To understand the impact of the MAUP in Queensland, Australia, the present study investigates inference from simulated lung cancer incidence data using the five levels of spatial aggregation defined by the Australian Statistical Geography Standard. …”
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Arsenic Exposure and the Induction of Human Cancers by Victor D. Martinez, Emily A. Vucic, Daiana D. Becker-Santos, Lionel Gil, Wan L. Lam

“…Millions of individuals worldwide are chronically exposed through drinking water, with consequences ranging from acute toxicities to development of malignancies, such as skin and lung cancer. Despite well-known arsenic-related health effects, the molecular mechanisms involved are not fully understood; however, the arsenic biotransformation process, which includes methylation changes, is thought to play a key role. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Choroidal Metastases by Bożena Romanowska-Dixon, Karolina Gerba-Górecka, Agnieszka Nowak, Joanna Kowal, Magdalena Dębicka-Kumela, Dagmara Nowak

“…The most common intraocular tumors in adults are metastases from primary tumors: breast cancer, lung cancer, and other organ neoplasms. They are most typically located in the choroid, in the posterior pole of the eye. …”
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Severe Erosive Pill Esophagitis Induced by Crizotinib Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Patrick Jung, Kyle J. Fortinsky, Zane R. Gallinger, Piero Tartaro

“…Previous case reports have described esophagitis thought to be secondary to crizotinib, an oral tyrosine-kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of anaplastic lymphoma kinase- (ALK-) positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In those reports, the interval development of esophagitis was between two days and three months after initiating or reinitiating crizotinib therapy. …”
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Cross-ViT based benign and malignant classification of pulmonary nodules. by Qinfang Zhu, Liangyan Fei

“…The benign and malignant discrimination of pulmonary nodules plays a very important role in diagnosing the extent of lung cancer lesions. There are many methods using Convolutional neural network (CNN) for benign and malignant classification of pulmonary nodules, but traditional CNN models focus more on the local features of pulmonary nodules and lack the extraction of global features of pulmonary nodules. …”
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Endometrial Carcinoma Presenting as Vasculitic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy by Marketa Vasku, Thomas Papathemelis, Nicolai Maass, Ivo Meinhold-Heerlein, Dirk Bauerschlag

“…Paraneoplastic polyneuropathy (PNP) is mostly related to small cell lung cancer (5%), prostate, gastric, and breast cancer. …”
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Outcome differences by sex in oncology clinical trials by Ashwin V. Kammula, Alejandro A. Schäffer, Padma Sheila Rajagopal, Razelle Kurzrock, Eytan Ruppin

“…The strongest differences are in trials of EGFR inhibitors in lung cancer and rituximab in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (both favoring females). …”
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Synchronous BALT Lymphoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lung: Coincidence or Linkage? by Anastasia Oikonomou, Emanuelle Astrinakis, Ioannis Kotsianidis, Vassiliki Kaloutsi, Vassileios Didilis, Konstantinos Tsatalas, Panos Prassopoulos

“…Combined chemotherapy for lung cancer and BALT lymphoma was initiated.…”
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Combined Effect of Lentinan and Cisplatin on Cytokines IL-6, TNF-α, and TGF-β in Tumor Therapy by Xu-dong Liu, Min Li, Wan-xiang Li, Qing-yu Wang, Hong-xia Zhang

“…Furthermore, it was proved that the combined treatment of lentinan and cisplatin enhanced the inhibitory effect of cisplatin on the expression of IL-6, TNF- α, TGF-β and tumor growth in mice bearing human ovarian cancer xenograft, human prostate tumor xenograft, and human non-small cell lung cancer xenograft.…”
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Synthesis and structure elucidation of some novel thiophene and benzothiophene derivatives as cytotoxic agents by Mohareb Rafat M., Abdallah Amira E. M., Helal Maher H. E., Shaloof Somiya M. H.

“…The results showed that ethyl 5-amino-3-(4-chlorostyryl)-4-cyanothiophene-2-carboxylate (5b), ethyl 5-amino-4-((4-methoxyphenyl)carbonyl)-3-methylhiophene-2-carboxylate (8c) and 5-3-(ethoxy-3-oxopropanamido)-3-methyl-4-(phenylcarbamoyl)thiophene-2-carboxylate (9) were the most active compounds towards three tumor cell lines – MCF-7 (breast adenocarcinoma), NCI-H460 (non-small cell lung cancer) and SF-268 (CNS cancer) and a normal fibro-blast human cell line (WI-38) compared to the anti-proliferative effects of the reference control doxorubicin.…”
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Maxillary osteonecrosis linked to Pembrolizumab therapy: a case report by Gosselin-Rousselle Louise, Gaudimier Zoé, Pamelard Pierre-Olivier, Sader Paul, Moizan Hervé

“…Observation: An 83-year-old male with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer treated exclusively with Pembrolizumab developed osteonecrosis of the maxilla. …”
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