Publications by authors named "J A Farinhas"

Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor diagnosed in children. This inaugural version of the NCCN Guidelines for Neuroblastoma provides recommendations for the diagnosis, risk classification, and treatment of neuroblastoma. The information in these guidelines was developed by the NCCN Neuroblastoma Panel, a multidisciplinary group of representatives with expertise in neuroblastoma, consisting of pediatric oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, surgeons, and radiation oncologists from NCCN Member Institutions.

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  • The study assessed the safety and immune response of combining IRX-2, an immune-activating agent, with durvalumab in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
  • Results showed that the combination significantly increased immune markers like PD-L1 and CD8+ T cells, with no severe treatment-related side effects observed.
  • Although the overall response rate was low (5.3%), one patient had a notable response lasting over 25 months, indicating potential for disease control in a subset of patients.
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Indigenous health has posted complex challenges worldwide, particularly due to historical economic, territorial, social and environmental processes, which may lead to emergence and reemergence of pathogens. In addition to few Coxiella burnetii serosurveys in vulnerable populations, especially in developing tropical countries, no comprehensive One Health approach has focused on human-animal infection along with potential environmental determinants. Accordingly, this study aimed to assess the seroprevalence of anti-C.

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Background: Although the infection has been investigated in dogs, its role in human transmission remains to be fully established, particularly in close and daily human-dog contact settings, such as in Police K-9 Units.

Methods: Accordingly, this study aimed to assess anti- antibodies in clinically healthy police officers by an in-house indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA), and working dogs by a commercial IFA Kit, from the State Special Operations Battalion, Paraná, Southern Brazil.

Results: Overall, 1/18 (5.

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Leukoaraiosis is a neuroimaging marker of small-vessel disease that is characterized by high signal intensity on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MRI. There is increasing evidence from pathology and neuroimaging suggesting that the structural abnormalities that characterize leukoaraiosis are actually present within regions of normal-appearing white matter, and that the underlying pathophysiology of white matter damage related to small-vessel disease involves blood-brain barrier damage. In this study, we aim to verify whether leukoaraiosis is associated with elevated signal intensity on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery imaging, a marker of brain tissue free-water accumulation, in normal-appearing white matter.

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