Case report: ductal carcinoma in situ in the male breast.

High-grade ductal carcinoma in situ is incredibly rare in male patients. The prognosis for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in a male patient is the same as it would be for a female with the same stage disease; therefore, early recognition and diagnosis are of the utmost importance. We present a case of a male with unilateral invasive ductal carcinoma who was diagnosed with DCIS in the contralateral breast.

Hyperthermia potentiates oncolytic herpes viral killing of pancreatic cancer through a heat shock protein pathway.

Background: Oncolytic herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) is designed to specifically infect, replicate in, and lyse cancer cells. This study investigates a novel therapeutic regimen, combining the effects of NV1066 (a recombinant HSV-1) and hyperthermia in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Methods: NV1066 is an attenuated HSV-1 that replicates in cells resistant to apoptosis.

Real-time intraoperative detection of breast cancer axillary lymph node metastases using a green fluorescent protein-expressing herpes virus.

Objective: To investigate the use of a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing oncolytic herpes virus to enable real-time intraoperative detection of breast cancer lymph node metastases.

Summary Background Data: Axillary lymph node status is the most important factor determining treatment, recurrence, and overall survival for women with breast cancer. The current methods of determining nodal status, however, have limitations.

Virally-directed fluorescent imaging (VFI) can facilitate endoscopic staging.

Background: Replication-competent, tumor specific herpes simplex virus NV1066 expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP) in infected cancer cells. We sought to determine the feasibility of GFP-guided imaging technology in the intraoperative detection of small tumor nodules.

Methods: Human cancer cell lines were infected with NV1066 at multiplicities of infection of 0.

Virally directed fluorescent imaging improves diagnostic sensitivity in the detection of minimal residual disease after potentially curative cytoreductive surgery.

Completeness of cytoreduction is an independent prognostic factor after cure-intended surgery for peritoneal carcinomatosis. NV1066, a genetically engineered herpes simplex virus carrying the transgene for green fluorescent protein, selectively infects cancer cells. We sought to determine the feasibility of virally directed fluorescent imaging in the intraoperative detection of minimal residual disease after cytoreductive surgery.