Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition of the bowel that can be further categorized into ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Rarely, this condition can be associated with pericarditis, which can be an extraintestinal manifestation of the disease or drug-induced. This review aims to determine the pathogenesis and management of pericarditis in IBD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImmunotherapy is the upcoming trend in cancer treatment. Traditional cancer treatment methods include surgical resection, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, small molecule targeted drugs, monoclonal antibodies, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Surgical resection is useful for early-stage patients but not for metastatic cancer cells; radiotherapy and chemotherapy are more common but produce substantial damage to normal tissues and have poor selectivity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBreast cancer management includes a combination of surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. While this management has proven effective, it is not perfect. To expand the umbrella of management to resistant breast cancer tumors, researchers have explored the idea of sphingosine kinase (SphK) and sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) as a potential target for treatment.
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