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Objetivo: Estimar las prevalencias de uso de las pruebas del Papanicolaou (Pap) y del virus del papiloma humano (VPH) antes y después del inicio de la pandemia por SARS-CoV-2. Material y métodos. Se analizó el uso de las pruebas de tamizaje Pap y/o VPH en mujeres de 25 a 64 años (población objetivo) utilizando datos de Encuestas Nacionales de Salud y Nutrición 2018 y 2021-2023.

Malignancies after renal transplantation: experience of a Mexican referral center.

Objective: To report the incidence of cancer after renal transplantation at a referral center in a developing country.

Materials And Methods: Consecutive patients receiving renal transplantations during a 48-year period at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran were analyzed. The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) was calculated based on data from GLOBOCAN 2012.

Blastic Transformation in Mexican Population With Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia.

Background: Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is the most aggressive of chronic leukemias, with short overall survival and a high transformation rate to acute leukemia. We investigated the factors related to blastic transformation in a Mexican population treated at a tertiary referral center.

Patients And Methods: The records of patients with a diagnosis of CMML from 2000 to 2015 were reviewed.

Association of PTP1B with Outcomes of Breast Cancer Patients Who Underwent Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.

PTP1B is involved in the oncogenesis of breast cancer. In addition, neoadjuvant therapy has been widely used in breast cancer; thus, a measurement to assess survival improvement could be pathological complete response (pCR). Our objective was to associate PTP1B overexpression with outcomes of breast cancer patients who underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: An update.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancies leading to high mortality rates in the general population; in cirrhotic patients, it is the primary cause of death. The diagnosis is usually delayed in spite of at-risk population screening recommendations, i.e.