Background: In renal cell carcinoma (RCC), skin metastases (SMs) occur in only 3.3% of cases and are even rarer as an initial manifestation of the disease. Although combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and targeted agents is the current standard of care, access to these treatments may be limited in certain regions due to cost constraints.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeat shock protein family B [small] member 6 (HSPB6), widely found in various muscles, has been recently identified as a tumor suppressor gene. However, its role in prostate cancer remains unexplored. Herein, we investigated the expression of HSPB6 in prostate cancer and its association with prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCraniopharyngiomas (CPs) are rare tumors arising from the sellar region. Although the best outcome for patients with one subtype, adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma (ACP), is obtained by gross total resection, little is known about the roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and transcription factors (TFs) in ACP tumorigenesis. In total, 12 human ACP and 5 control samples were subjected to transcriptome-level sequencing.
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