Publications by authors named "L Mercatali"
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- Musculoskeletal sarcomas are rare and diverse tumors, making research and treatment challenging for scientists and healthcare providers.
- Traditional methods using mice for xenografting are increasingly limited due to ethical concerns and stricter regulations, leading researchers to seek alternative models like chick embryos and zebrafish.
- These alternative models offer benefits such as cost-effectiveness, ease of tracking tumor growth, and the potential for enhanced drug screening, suggesting that a combination of different models could improve research and understanding of these tumors.
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- Soft tissue sarcomas make up a rare group of tumors accounting for just 1% of solid cancers, with liposarcoma being a notable subtype.
- The study focused on 21 patients with atypical lipomatous tumors/well differentiated liposarcoma (ALT/WDLPS) and dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLPS), investigating the role of biomarkers CDK4 and MDM2.
- Results indicated that CDK4 was more highly expressed in DDLPS than in ALT/WDLPS, and the CDK4 inhibitor palbociclib showed promise in a sequential treatment approach when combined with lenvatinib, suggesting a new management strategy for DDLPS.
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- Immunotherapy is becoming an important treatment for sarcomas, which are tumors that can act very differently from each other.
- Researchers found that understanding the different immune environments in these tumors can help improve treatment results.
- The presence of specific immune cells called Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) may help patients live longer and respond better to immunotherapy, along with certain genes related to the immune system.
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- Myxofibrosarcoma is a rare and aggressive soft tissue cancer that often recurs and becomes more severe with each recurrence, posing challenges for patients and clinicians alike.
- The study introduces a new cell line (MF-R 3) derived from a myxofibrosarcoma patient, which was thoroughly characterized using various biological tests to evaluate its tumor properties.
- The MF-R 3 cell line exhibits similar characteristics to the original tumor and has shown promising sensitivity to anthracycline drugs, making it a valuable model for further research and drug testing.