Publications by authors named "Agnese Assi"
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- Combined chemoradiation therapy is the standard treatment for squamous cell anal cancer (SCAC), but many patients still face relapse, leading to invasive surgeries with significant side effects.
- The study analyzed the EGFR gene and mutations in KRAS, BRAF, and PIK3CA in 84 SCAC patients, finding that 34% had increased EGFR gene copies, while some had mutations in KRAS and PIK3CA.
- Understanding the EGFR pathway in SCAC could help identify patient subgroups for more tailored targeted therapies, improving treatment outcomes.
Background: We present a personal case of papillary pineocytoma in a 42-year-old woman.
Methods: The lesion was first treated surgically both for diagnostic aims and for resolution of the mass effect causing hydrocephalus and correlated neurological disturbances. Because the tumor recurred after surgery and radiotherapy, we decided to further treat the patient with chemotherapy, in particular with temozolomide.
Presacral cystic neuroblastoma: case report and review of the literature.
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol
August 2006
Cystic neuroblastoma (CN) is highly unusual; since 2005 only 55 cases have been reported in the medical literature. The authors report a case of pelvic (presacral) CN in a 2-month-old boy. Computed tomography scan confirmed a cystic, septated, and encapsulated mass.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong-term follow up studies of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection rarely exceed 20-25 yr. We studied the outcome of HCV infection in 35-yr-old adults infected at birth (1968) through mini transfusions of blood. A retrospective-prospective study was carried out.
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