Publications by authors named "M Cantarella"
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- The European Green Deal wants to improve how we use and manage water, especially by recycling wastewater more effectively and cheaply.
- Scientists are combining special tiny materials (nanomaterials) with flexible plastics (polymers) to make new materials that can help clean water by using sunlight to start chemical reactions.
- Recent experiments showed that these new materials can break down harmful chemicals in water, which could lead to better ways to clean water and help the environment.
Clinical evidence suggests an association between comorbidities and outcome in patients with glioblastoma (GBM). We hypothesised that the internal carotid artery (ICA) calcium score could represent a promising prognostic biomarker in a competing risk analysis in patients diagnosed with GBM. We validated the use of the ICA calcium score as a surrogate marker of the coronary calcium score in 32 patients with lung cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression is a well-known predictive biomarker of response to immune checkpoint blockade in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, there is limited evidence of the relationship between PD-L1 expression, clinicopathological features, and their association with major driver mutations in NSCLC patients in Latin America.
Methods: This retrospective study included patients from Argentina with advanced NSCLC, and centralized evaluation of PD-L1 expression concurrently with genomic alterations in the driver genes EGFR, ALK, ROS1, BRAF, and/or KRAS G12C in FFPE tissue samples.
Background: Circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA, liquid biopsy) is a powerful tool to detect molecular alterations. However, depending on tumor characteristics, biology and anatomic localization, cfDNA detection and analysis may be challenging. Gliomas are enclosed into an anatomic sanctuary, which obstacles the release of cfDNA into the peripheral blood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is an unmet need for new biomarkers able to predict both the outcomes of up-front therapy and the compliance of elderly patients diagnosed with glioblastoma. For this purpose, temporal muscle thickness is a promising tool to be investigated.
Methods: Data from 52 glioblastoma patients older than 65 years, treated with post-operative radio or radio-chemotherapy and referred to Pisa University Hospital, were retrieved.