Publications by authors named "Iva Staniczkova Zambo"

Purpose: Pediatric sarcomas are bone and soft tissue tumors that often exhibit high metastatic potential and refractory stem-like phenotypes, resulting in poor outcomes. Aggressive sarcomas frequently harbor a disrupted p53 pathway. However, whether pediatric sarcoma stemness is associated with abrogated p53 function and might be attenuated via p53 reactivation remains unclear.

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  • Myxofibrosarcoma is a type of cancer that tends to grow infiltratively, making it hard to achieve clear surgical margins, which leads to a high chance of local recurrence.
  • In a study of 111 patients, researchers found a 5-year overall survival rate of 65.5%, with age over 65, larger tumor size, and higher tumor grade negatively impacting this rate.
  • While clear surgical margins positively affect recurrence-free survival, a margin of just 2 mm may not be enough, indicating that wider margins could be necessary to lower the risk of recurrence.
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Hand2 is a core transcription factor responsible for chromaffin cell differentiation. However, its potential utility in surgical pathology has not been studied. Thus, we aimed to investigate its expression in paragangliomas, other neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs), and additional non-neuroendocrine tumors.

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Common variable immunodeficiency disorder (CVID) is the most common form of primary antibody immunodeficiency. Due to low antibody levels, CVID patients receive intravenous or subcutaneous immunoglobulin replacement therapy as treatment. CVID is associated with the chronic activation of granulocytes, including an increased percentage of low-density neutrophils (LDNs).

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Diagnosis of soft tissue tumors is often challenging, given the large number of entities, often with non-specific or overlapping morphology. Although morphology still plays an important part in diagnostic process, additional studies including immunohistochemistry and molecular genetics are often needed to arrive at correct diagnosis. We report a case of 61-year-old male with subcutaneous tumor in right hip area, that was surgically removed.

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Giant cell tumour of bone (GCTB) is one of the most common local aggressive tumourous lesions with a wide variety of biological behaviour. However, there are no clear indicative criteria when choosing the type of procedure and the complication rates remain high, especially in terms of local recurrence. The purpose of the study was to (1) identify the main risk factors for local recurrence, (2) evaluate the recurrence-free survival in dependence on neoadjuvant denosumab use and the type of procedure, and (3) compare the functional outcomes after curettage and en bloc resection.

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Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implant survival, functional score and complications of intercalary endoprostheses implanted for metastatic involvement of the femoral and humeral diaphysis.

Methods: The selected group covered patients with bone metastasis who were surgically treated with an intercalary endoprosthesis between 2012 and 2021. The functional outcome was evaluated with the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (MSTS) scoring system, and complications were evaluated by using the failure classification for prosthetics designed by Henderson.

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The transcription factor c-Myb is an oncoprotein promoting cell proliferation and survival when aberrantly activated/expressed, thus contributing to malignant transformation. Overexpression of c-Myb has been found in leukemias, breast, colon and adenoid cystic carcinoma. Recent studies revealed its expression also in osteosarcoma cell lines and suggested its functional importance during bone development.

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  • Giant-cell tumor of bone (GCTB) is a type of bone tumor that grows aggressively and can spread, prompting researchers to find new drug targets for treatment.
  • The study used phosphoprotein arrays on tumor samples to identify activated signaling proteins, highlighting EGFR and PDGFRβ as potential targets, with sunitinib showing notable effectiveness in reducing stromal cell viability.
  • In a case study of a 17-year-old patient, combining sunitinib with denosumab led to the complete elimination of problematic tumor cells, suggesting targeted therapies could improve GCTB treatment outcomes.
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Purpose: Conventional osteosarcoma is an orphan disease. Current treatment approaches include combining a three drug chemotherapy schedule and surgery. The 3- and 5-year event-free survival (EFS) in localized disease is roughly 65 and 60%, respectively.

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Immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology play an essential role in the diagnosis of some focal bone lesions. These techniques may greatly help to distinguish primary bone tumors from metastatic diseases and allow a biologically important refinements in subclassification of round cell sarcomas. Recently, the diagnostic accuracy of organ and tumor specific antibodies has improved significantly.

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Rationale: The Ewing sarcoma family of malignant tumors is a group of tumors characterized by morphologically similar round-cell neoplasms and by the presence of a common chromosomal translocation; Ewing sarcoma family of tumors typically occur in children and young adults between 4 to 15 years of age. The primary tumor usually originates in the bone, extraskeletal localization is rare.

Patient Concern: We present a case report concerning a 32-year-old male patient with a primary involvement of the penis.

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Serial xenotransplantation of sorted cancer cells in immunodeficient mice remains the most complex test of cancer stem cell (CSC) phenotype. However, we have demonstrated in various sarcomas that putative CSC surface markers fail to identify CSCs, thereby impeding the isolation of CSCs for subsequent analyses. Here, we utilized serial xenotransplantation of unsorted rhabdomyosarcoma cells in NOD/SCID gamma (NSG) mice as a proof-of-principle platform to investigate the molecular signature of CSCs.

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