Publications by authors named "V Skokic"
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- The study aimed to assess the outcomes of robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) with intracorporeal orthotopic neobladder in women with bladder cancer, specifically focusing on functionality, cancer results, and complications.
- The research involved 146 female patients, revealing that about half underwent pelvic organ-preserving procedures, achieving overall daytime and nighttime continence rates of 54% and 53%.
- The findings concluded that RARC with orthotopic neobladder offers good functional outcomes, with pelvic organ preservation improving urinary continence while maintaining cancer safety.
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- - The SWENOTECA-MIR study evaluates the effectiveness of miR-371a-3p as a new marker for detecting viable tumors in metastatic germ cell tumor patients undergoing retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND).
- - In the study of 114 patients, miR-371a-3p showed mixed results, with better performance in seminoma patients than in nonseminomas, particularly before chemotherapy.
- - Overall, while miR-371a-3p demonstrated high specificity in certain groups, its overall sensitivity, especially post-chemotherapy, was low, highlighting potential limitations in using it as a reliable marker for viable tumor detection.
Purpose: To determine the effects of intra-abdominal surgery on the intensities of 5 radiation-induced intestinal syndromes in survivors of pelvic cancer.
Methods And Materials: The analysis included 623 women born in 1927 or later who had survived cancer. They all had received external radiation therapy toward the pelvic area to treat gynecologic cancers.
Background: Radiotherapy is effective in the treatment of cancer but also causes damage to non-cancerous tissue. Pelvic radiotherapy may produce chronic and debilitating bowel symptoms, yet the underlying pathophysiology is still undefined. Most notably, although pelvic radiotherapy causes an acute intestinal inflammation there is no consensus on whether the late-phase pathophysiology contains an inflammatory component or not.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhytoestrogens have been suggested to have an anti-proliferative role in prostate cancer, potentially by acting through estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) and modulating several hormones. We primarily aimed to investigate the effect of a phytoestrogen intervention on hormone concentrations in blood depending on the ERβ genotype. Patients with low and intermediate-risk prostate cancer, scheduled for radical prostatectomy, were randomized to an intervention group provided with soybeans and flaxseeds (∼200 mg phytoestrogens/d) added to their diet until their surgery, or a control group that was not provided with any food items.
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