Publications by authors named "J A Kant"
Purpose: To understand the rate of, and reasons for, discontinuation of gender-affirming hormones (GAH) in transgender adolescents.
Methods: Retrospective cohort study of individuals starting GAH between January 2007 and December 2022. Individuals were included if they were diagnosed with gender dysphoria, were prescribed GAH, and took GAH continuously for a minimum of 6 months.
Article Synopsis
- Gender affirming surgeries help transgender and gender diverse individuals align their bodies with their gender identities, improving their mental health and overall wellbeing.
- Regret rates after these surgeries are low, and they can enhance safety for transgender and gender diverse people in daily life.
- The article reviews the types of surgeries, assessment protocols, and discusses the associated risks and benefits within the current U.S. sociopolitical context.
Local structures formed by cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) play an important role in tumor development and treatment response. This study introduces SPoTLIghT, a computational framework providing a quantitative description of the tumor architecture from hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides. We trained a weakly supervised machine learning model on melanoma patients linking tile-level imaging features extracted from H&E slides to sample-level cell type quantifications derived from RNA-sequencing data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cellular and molecular heterogeneity of tumors is a major obstacle to cancer immunotherapy. Here, we use a systems biology approach to derive a signature of the main sources of heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment (TME) from lung cancer transcriptomics. We demonstrate that this signature, which we called , is conserved in different cancers and associated with antitumor immunity.
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