Publications by authors named "Gordon Caruana Dingli"
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- - The study assesses the quality of medical notes in the vascular unit at Mater Dei Hospital by applying specific guidelines and evaluating 17 parameters before and after an intervention.
- - Results show significant improvements in key areas such as patient identifiers, clinical summaries, examinations, and clinical planning.
- - Future plans include digitizing note-taking, using AI for better data organization, and creating easier entry methods to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and continuity in patient care.
Electromagnetic thermal therapies for cancer treatment, such as microwave hyperthermia, aim to heat up a targeted tumour site to temperatures within 40 and 44 °C. Computational simulations used to investigate such heating systems employ the Pennes' bioheat equation to model the heat exchange within the tissue, which accounts for several tissue properties: density, specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, metabolic heat generation rate, and blood perfusion rate. We present a review of these thermal and physiological properties relevant for hyperthermia treatments of breast including fibroglandular breast, fatty breast, and breast tumours.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMiR-29 family dysregulation occurs in various cancers including breast cancers. We investigated miR-29b-1 functional role in human triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) the most aggressive breast cancer subtype. We found that miR-29b-1-5p was downregulated in human TNBC tissues and cell lines.
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