About difficulties in the examination of the quality of medical care in the complicated course of the postoperative period after cystectomy by K. N. Movchan, K. E. Chernov, B. S. Artyushin, A. V. Zharkov, A. Yu. Chernova

“…Cystectomy, as a type of surgical treatment, is performed for various diseases of the bladder. Most often — with malignant tumors, as well as with benign pathological conditions. …”
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Advancing therapeutic strategies for graft-versus-host disease by targeting gut microbiome dynamics in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: current evidence and futu... by Muhammad Azhar Ud Din, Yan Lin, Changkun Lyu, Chengxue Yi, Anning Fang, Fei Mao

“…Abstract Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a highly effective therapy for malignant blood illnesses that pose a high risk, as well as diseases that are at risk due to other variables, such as genetics. …”
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Clinical Outcome of Third-Line Pazopanib in a Patient with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma by Michela Roberto, Maria Bassanelli, Elsa Iannicelli, Silvana Giacinti, Chiara D’Antonio, Anna Maria Aschelter, Paolo Marchetti

“…Renal cell carcinoma accounts for about 2-3% of all malignant tumors. The prevalence of brain metastases from RCC is less than 20% of cases. …”
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Clinical Investigation of Benign Asbestos Pleural Effusion by Nobukazu Fujimoto, Kenichi Gemba, Keisuke Aoe, Katsuya Kato, Takako Yokoyama, Ikuji Usami, Kazuo Onishi, Keiichi Mizuhashi, Toshikazu Yusa, Takumi Kishimoto

“…None of the cases developed malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) during the follow-up.…”
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Digestive cancers: mechanisms, therapeutics and management by Tianzuo Zhan, Johannes Betge, Nadine Schulte, Lena Dreikhausen, Michael Hirth, Moying Li, Philip Weidner, Antonia Leipertz, Andreas Teufel, Matthias P. Ebert

“…We comprehensively describe the current stage-dependent pharmacological management of these malignancies, including chemo-, targeted, and immunotherapy. …”
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Classification of Thyroid Nodules with Stacked Denoising Sparse Autoencoder by Zexin Li, Kaiji Yang, Lili Zhang, Chiju Wei, Peixuan Yang, Wencan Xu

“…The classifier performed well in discriminating malignant and benign thyroid nodules, with an area under the curve of 0.785 [0.638–0.931], accuracy of 92.9% [92.7–93.0%], sensitivity of 98.6% [95.9–101.3%], specificity of 58.3% [30.4–86.2%], positive likelihood ratio of 2.367 [1.211–4.625], and negative likelihood ratio of 0.024 [0.003–0.177]. …”
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Loading of CAR‐T cells with magnetic nanoparticles for controlled targeting suppresses inflammatory cytokine release and switches tumor cell death mechanism by Felix Pfister, Lucas R. Carnell, Lisa Löffler, Philipp Boosz, Niels Schaft, Jan Dörrie, René Stein, Malte Lenz, Erdmann Spiecker, Christian M. Huber, Sami Haddadin, Carola Berking, Christoph Alexiou, Christina Janko

“…Abstract Therapies against hematological malignancies using chimeric antigen receptors (CAR)‐T cells have shown great potential; however, therapeutic success in solid tumors has been constrained due to limited tumor trafficking and infiltration, as well as the scarcity of cancer‐specific solid tumor antigens. …”
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Application of raman spectroscopy in the non-invasive diagnosis of urological diseases via urine by Ailiyaer Ainiwaer, ShuWen Sun, Ayinuer Bohetiyaer, Yuchao Liu, Yufeng Jiang, Wentao Zhang, JingCheng Zhang, Tianyuan Xu, Hanyang Chen, Xudong Yao, Chengyou Jia, Yang Yan

“…It has shown potential within non-invasive diagnostic methodologies and is expected to play a pivotal role in the early diagnosis and prognostic assessment of urinary system diseases, such as malignancies, urinary tract infections, kidney diseases, urolithiasis, and other urinary conditions. …”
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N-trans-Feruloyloctopamine Wakes Up BBC3, DDIT3, CDKN1A, and NOXA Signals to Accelerate HCC Cell Apoptosis by Bin Ma, Jing Li, Wen-Ke Yang, Mei-Gui Zhang, Xiao-Dong Xie, Zhong-Tian Bai

“…N-trans-Feruloyloctopamine (FO), a natural compound, was reported in our previous study to inhibit a tumor cell malignant phenotype by AKT- and EMT-related signals and might be used as a promising drug for HCC treatment. …”
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Evaluation of Podoplanin in Oral Leukoplakia and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Ashok Patil, Kishor Patil, Suyog Tupsakhare, Mahesh Gabhane, Shrikant Sonune, Shilpa Kandalgaonkar

“…Podoplanin can be used as a biomarker for early oral tumorigenesis and for malignant transformation risk assessment of premalignant lesions and as a tumor progression biomarker for advanced grades of OSCC.…”
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Dysbiosis and extraintestinal cancers by Ruishan He, Pingqian Qi, Linzhen Shu, Yidan Ding, Peng Zeng, Guosheng Wen, Ying Xiong, Huan Deng

“…This review aims to comprehensively summarize the existing evidence that points to the potential role of dysbiosis in the malignant transformation of extraintestinal organs such as the liver, breast, lung, and pancreas. …”
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Skin Biopsy in the Context of Dermatological Diagnosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Chrysovalantis Korfitis, Stamatis Gregoriou, Christina Antoniou, Andreas D. Katsambas, Dimitris Rigopoulos

“…The mean age of the patients was 54.58±0.26 years, the most common site of biopsy was the head and neck (38.3%), the most frequently proposed clinical diagnoses included malignancies (19.28%), and the most prevalent pathological diagnosis was epitheliomas (21.9%). …”
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Central nervous system B-cell lymphoma in a patient diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids: A case report by Evangelos Koumasopoulos, Evangelia-Anna Spiteri, Aigli G Vakrakou, Panagiotis Toulas, Georgios Velonakis, George Stranjalis, Leonidas Stefanis, Maria-Eleptheria Evangelopoulos, Maria Anagnostouli

“…In our opinion, the presented case supports the putative neoplastic nature of the disease, at least in the long term, and/or along with Epstein–Barr virus involvement, which is known that have been related to other immune-mediated diseases such as multiple sclerosis and malignancies, especially with specific human leukocyte antigen haplotypes. …”
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Modern Trends in Imaging IX: Biophotonics Techniques for Structural and Functional Imaging, In Vivo by Yasaman Ardeshirpour, Amir H. Gandjbakhche, Laleh Najafizadeh

“…In fluorescence imaging, the difference between autofluorescence of cancer lesions compared to normal tissues were used in endoscopy to distinguish malignant lesions from normal tissue or inflammation and in determining the boarders of cancer lesions in surgery. …”
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Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram model in primary cutaneous and subcutaneous soft tissue angiosarcoma by Jinqian Mao, Jin Hu, Yunfei Chen, Yiqing Li, Xiaoqin Run

“…All data were randomly allocated into a training set and a testing set to develop and validate the nomogram model.Results The findings showed that age, sex, grade, tumor size, multiple primary malignant tumors, stage, primary site surgery (PSS), radiotherapy (RT), and chemotherapy (CT) were correlated with prognosis (p < .05). …”
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Primary Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and a Comprehensive Review of a Rare Entity by Olga Martínez-Sáez, Javier Molina-Cerrillo, Carmen Moreno García del Real, Rafael Barberá Durban, Juan J. Díez, Teresa Alonso-Gordoa, Enrique Grande Pulido

“…Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) comprise a heterogeneous group of malignancies from cells derived from the neural crest with neuroendocrine differentiation. …”
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Extended UVB Exposures Alter Tumorigenesis and Treatment Efficacy in a Murine Model of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Erin M. Burns, Kathleen L. Tober, Judith A. Riggenbach, Donna F. Kusewitt, Gregory S. Young, Tatiana M. Oberyszyn

“…Vehicle-treated mice in the 25-week UVB exposure model exhibited an increased tumor burden and a higher percentage of malignant tumors compared to mice in the 10-week exposure model, which correlated with increases in total and mutant p53-positive epidermal cells. …”
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Mutual causal effects between immune cells and hepatocellular carcinoma: a Mendelian randomization study by Zheng Wang, Mengshu Pan, Jie Zhu, Changhong Liu

“…Abstract Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a malignant tumor that seriously endangering health, has aroused widespread concern in the field of public health. …”
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Clinical Application of Autologous Adipose Stem Cells in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: Preliminary Results by Adam Stepien, Natalia L. Dabrowska, Marzena Maciagowska, Renata Piusinska Macoch, Aleksandra Zolocinska, Slawomir Mazur, Katarzyna Siennicka, Emilia Frankowska, Rafał Kidzinski, Małgorzata Chalimoniuk, Zygmunt Pojda

“…Intrathecal treatment with ASCs is an attractive form of therapy for patients with MS but should be reserved for cases with aggressive disease progression, for cases that are still in the inflammatory phase, and for the malignant form.…”
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Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma Arising in Struma Ovarii by Surapan Khunamornpong, Jongkolnee Settakorn, Kornkanok Sukpan, Prapaporn Suprasert, Sumalee Siriaunkgul

“…The morphological spectrum of the thyroid tissue ranges from that of normal thyroid to proliferative adenoma-like lesions and thyroid-type carcinomas (malignant transformation). The histologic features of ovarian strumal lesions sometimes cause diagnostic problems due to the confusion with other types of ovarian neoplasms and the difficulty in the prediction of their clinical behavior. …”
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