Yozgat, Can Yilmaz Yesilbas, Osman Yozgat, Yilmaz Akdemir, Osman Cemil Yurtsever, Ismail Tekin, Nur Baghishov, Damat Bayramova, Nigar Elagoz, Sahande Cakir, Fatma Betul
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Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a malignant form of neoplasm that originates from skeletal muscle. RMSs can exist anywhere in the human body but are more commonly detected in the neck region and extremities. The alveolar type is one of the subtypes of RMS that has a poor prognosis. Because the clinical manifestation of a tumour can be a painless mass, sy...
Cybulska-Stopa, Bożena Piejko, Karolina Pacholczak, Renata Domagała-Haduch, Małgorzata Drosik-Kwaśniewska, Anna Rolski, Janusz Wiktor-Mucha, Patrycja Zemełka, Tomasz
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The treatment outcomes of patients with advanced/metastatic melanoma were poor before the use of new therapeutic options. A retrospective analysis was conducted among 287 patients with unresectable stage III and stage IV melanoma treated at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology Cracow Branch, from 2013 to 2019. All enro...
Dylewska, Katarzyna Kobusińska, Katarzyna Kurylak, Andrzej
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IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a systemic fibrotic-inflammatory disease characterised by elevated serum concentration of IgG4 and tissue infiltration by plasma cells. IgG4-RD is a newly recognised fibro-inflammatory condition, characterised by organ mass lesions, special histopathological appearance, and - often but not always - elevated serum I...
Huszno, Joanna Kolosza, Zofia Nycz-Bochenek, Marta Lisik, Małgorzata Mazur, Magdalena Pamuła-Piłat, Jolanta Grzybowska, Ewa
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The purpose of the present study was to characterise patients with breast cancer (BC) and NOD2-mutation (age ≥ 50 years) according to their clinicopathological factors or family history. Patients aged ≥ 50 years were compared with the control group and with NOD2-mutation carriers aged 50 years of age. In NOD2-mutation carriers aged ≥ 50 years, the...
Abuderman, Abdulwahab A Harb, Ola A Gertallah, Loay M
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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a markedly aggressive molecular subtype of breast cancer; there is an urgent need to clarify the molecular mechanisms underlying the progression and metastases of BLBC, in order to find a novel targeted therapy. Microfibrillar-associated protein 5 (MFAP5) plays an essential role in the regulation of cell beha...
Kozłowska, Joanna Kozioł, Kinga Stasiak, Maciej Obacz, Justyna Guglas, Kacper Poter, Paulina Mackiewicz, Andrzej Kolenda, Tomasz
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Nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) is considered an oncogene in various cancers, but the role in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) is not clear. Expression of NEAT1 in HNSCC patients' samples and cell lines was analysed using qRT-PCR. The TCGA expression data of NEAT1 were analysed depending on the clinicopathological pa...
Karwacki, Marek W
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The main goal of this study was to draw the attention of physicians to commonly undisclosed risk of breast cancer (BrCa) in women suffering from neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1), which is 5-fold higher than in the general population. NF-1 related BrCa arises earlier (
Sang, Nguyen Van Duc, Nguyen Minh Duc, Pham Hong Tuan, Phung Anh
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Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common malignant disease in the world, following breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) in identifying the metastatic lymph node of GC. A cross-sectional study was performed after receiving approval by the i...
Tarkowska, Magdalena Głowacka-Mrotek, Iwona Nowikiewicz, Tomasz Monastyrska-Waszak, Ewelina Gastecka, Agata Goch, Aleksander Zegarski, Wojciech
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The goal of our study was to assess the sexual functioning of patients undergoing mastectomy, five years after surgery, compared to a control group. A cross-sectional study included 170 patients five years post mastectomy (group A1) and 149 healthy women (group A2) who had never been diagnosed with breast cancer. The study was conducted at the Onco...
Lavdaniti, Maria Margari, Nikoletta Chavela, Aikaterini Mantzanas, Michalis Chatzi, Ioanna Fradelos, Evangelos C Tilaveridis, Ioannis Tzavelas, George
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To assess nausea and vomiting in cancer patients during two cycles of chemotherapy, and the impact on their quality of life. A longitudinal study was conducted in an oncology department of a large general public hospital in Northern Greece. The sample consisted of 200 cancer patients. Data were collected with the MASCC-Antiemesis Tool and FACT-G qu...
