The Experience of Undocumented Individuals Denied Stem Cell Transplant for Hematologic Malignancies.

Background: Undocumented individuals with hematologic malignancies in the United States face barriers to receiving often-curative stem cell transplant (SCT), instead receiving inferior treatment with higher mortality. Federal and state policies' impact on undocumented individuals' lived experiences goes unnoticed.

Objective: To understand the experiences of this rare population of undocumented individuals with hematologic malignancies who cannot receive medically indicated SCT.

Chronic diarrhoea and ichthyosis vulgaris: a rare presentation of Hodgkin's lymphoma.

A man in his 30s presented with several months of non-bloody diarrhoea and nausea along with conjunctivitis, diffuse ichthyosis and cellulitis in the setting of progressive neck swelling. He was ultimately diagnosed with nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's lymphoma after undergoing a broad infectious, rheumatological and neoplastic workup. This represents a rare presentation of classic Hodgkin's lymphoma and demonstrates the known alteration of cellular immunity in Hodgkin's lymphoma alongside manifestations of the profound inflammatory state associated with the disease.

STAT5 inhibition induces TRAIL/DR4 dependent apoptosis in peripheral T-cell lymphoma.

Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a rare, aggressive, heterogeneous, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with poor prognosis and inadequate response to current therapies. Recent sequencing studies indicate a prevalence of activating mutations in the JAK/STAT signaling pathway. Oncogenic mutations in STAT5B, observed in approximately one third of cases of multiple different PTCL subtypes, correlate with inferior patient outcomes.

Concurrent Mutations in ATM and Genes Associated with Common γ Chain Signaling in Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma.

Peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a heterogeneous malignancy with poor response to current therapeutic strategies and incompletely characterized genetics. We conducted whole exome sequencing of matched PTCL and non-malignant samples from 12 patients, spanning 8 subtypes, to identify potential oncogenic mutations in PTCL. Analysis of the mutations identified using computational algorithms, CHASM, PolyPhen2, PROVEAN, and MutationAssessor to predict the impact of these mutations on protein function and PTCL tumorigenesis, revealed 104 somatic mutations that were selected as high impact by all four algorithms.

Toxicity of organic fluorophores used in molecular imaging: literature review.

Fluorophores are potentially useful for in vivo cancer diagnosis. Using relatively inexpensive and portable equipment, optical imaging with fluorophores permits real-time detection of cancer. However, fluorophores can be toxic and must be investigated before they can be administered safely to patients.