Inform, prevent, educate and encourage are the key words must be the keywords of all stakeholders who take care of a patient with ENT cancer in order to potentiate the effectiveness of the different treatments but also to improve the quality of life of patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArcagen (NCT02834884) is a European prospective study aiming at defining the molecular landscape of rare cancers for treatment guidance. We present data from the cohort of rare thoracic tumors. Patients with advanced pleural mesothelioma (PM) or thymic epithelial tumors (TET) underwent genomic profiling with large targeted assay [>300 genes, tumor mutational burden (TMB), microsatellite instability (MSI) status] on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) or plasma samples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNumber transcoding is the cognitive task of converting between different numerical codes (i.e. visual "42", verbal "forty-two").
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid reorganization in all human and hospital activities, with impact on cancer patients.
Aim: An analysis of cancer patients fears, and awareness of COVID-19 has been done in this study.
Methods And Results: We analyzed cancer patients' reactions to the pandemic and their perception of oncological care reorganization, through a 12-item survey, proposed at the peak of pandemic and 3 months later.
The role of eosinophils, a cell type involved in the immune response to parasitic infections and allergies, has been investigated in different cancer types, in both tumor tissue and at the circulating level. Most studies showed a role mainly in conjunction with immunotherapy in melanomas and lung tumors, while few data are available in breast cancer. In this review, we summarize literature data on breast cancer, showing a prognostic role of circulating eosinophil counts as well as of the presence of tumor tissue infiltration by eosinophils.
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