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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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- Health & MedicineOpen access
Autoimmune diseases frequently involve the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and can present with nonspecific symptoms that delay diagnosis. Their manifestations range from subtle motility disturbances to life-threatening ischemia, perforation, or obstruction. Advances in cross-section...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Purpose The current study examines longitudinal changes in sleep disturbances and the risks they pose for new-onset health conditions in survivors of childhood cancer. Methods Five-year survivors ( N = 1081; median [range] age 50.0 [45.2–55.0] years) and siblings ( N = 2...
- BiologyOpen access
Inhibitors of IAP/XIAP enhance activity of sacituzumab govitecan
Abstract TROP2 antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan (SG) is approved for treatment of advanced breast cancer. However, intrinsic and acquired resistance occur, leading to a need for novel therapies. We hypothesized that antagonists of inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP)...
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Abstract Spindlin1 (SPIN1) is an epigenetic reader involved in oncology, whose third Tudor domain remains largely underexplored. Here, we applied a minimalist pruning strategy to the 26-mer peptide DOCpep3 to identify the core pharmacophore for SPIN1 Tudor 3 domain binding. This...
- BiologyOpen access
A compendium of next-generation patient-derived models for diverse cancers
Abstract The development of new therapeutics and the validation of pathogenetic cancer mechanisms require representative laboratory models 1,2 . However, existing collections represent only a fraction of the diversity observed in human cancer 2–4 . Recent technologies have enable...
- Biology
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) causes significant morbidity and mortality during viral pneumonia, including SARS-CoV-2 infections. Nevertheless, most patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections recover seamlessly without developing ARDS, suggesting the existence o...
- BiologyOpen access
BACKGROUND: Mastectomy rates in women with breast cancer are higher in younger women than in older women. The impact of this more extensive surgery on overall survival (OS) and locoregional recurrence in younger women is unknown, especially after neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST...
- Health & Medicine
Background: Brain metastases (BMs) from nonanaplastic follicular cell–derived thyroid carcinoma (hereinafter referred to as non-ATC) are rare and not well characterized, with limited evidence guiding treatment and prognostic stratification. We aimed to describe clinical features,...
- AI & Computing
BAP: Bayesian Biomarker-Assisted Platform Design for Dose Ranging in Multi-Agent Multi-Dose Trials
Assessing the long-term benefits of new treatments can be expensive and time-consuming, particularly in disease areas with unmet medical needs. While platform trials enable the evaluation of multiple interventions simultaneously, they currently cannot assess studies involving mul...
- Health & Medicine
Top 10 Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Preventing Burnout
Health care worker burnout is a potential job hazard. Palliative care clinicians (PCCs) are especially vulnerable due to the intense emotional and challenging demands of the work. Creating environments for PCCs to thrive is the responsibility of the organization, however, PCCs ha...
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Abstract Background Trophoblast cell surface antigen 2 (Trop-2) is a targetable transmembrane glycoprotein commonly overexpressed in breast cancer (BC). This study combines a systematic review and meta-analysis with a retrospective analysis of an independent early BC patient coho...