Publications by authors named "Mariana Ward"
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- * Analysis of 440 lung cancer samples showed that CD39+ CD8 T cells were linked to features like exhaustion and tumor reactivity, but only weakly associated with other tumor characteristics like PD-L1 and mutation burden.
- * Increased levels of CD39+ CD8 T cells due to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) were linked to better outcomes in ICB therapy, with a specific gene signature predicting benefits from ICB but not from chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer trials.
Objectives: Up to 70% of women service members in the United States report military sexual trauma (MST); many develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and co-occurring disorders. Trauma-informed yoga (TIY) is suggested to improve psychiatric symptoms and shown feasible and acceptable in emerging research, yet no work has evaluated TIY in MST survivors. The current quality improvement project aimed to examine TIY's feasibility, acceptability, and perceived effects in the context of MST.
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