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Pathol Res Pract
December 2024
Department of Zoology (PG), Vellalar College for Women, Erode, India. Electronic address:
Breast cancer remains the leading cause of mortality among women with cancer. This article delves into the intricate relationship between breast cancer and cancer stem cells (CSCs), emphasizing advanced methods for their identification and isolation. The key isolation techniques, such as the mammosphere formation assay, surface marker identification, Side Population assay, and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase assay, are critically examined.
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January 2025
Department of Primate Behavioral Ecology, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Biological relatedness is a key consideration in studies of behavior, population structure, and trait evolution. Except for parent-offspring dyads, pedigrees capture relatedness imperfectly. The number and length of identical-by-descent DNA segments (IBD) yield the most precise relatedness estimates.
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January 2025
Université Paris Cité, Center of Research in Epidemiology and StatisticS/CRESS/Obstetrical Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team (EPOPé), INSERM, INRAE, Paris, France.
Background: The French guidelines have recommended a restrictive policy of episiotomy since 2005. We aimed to assess variations in the prevalence of both episiotomy and obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI) from the 2010, 2016, and 2021 National Perinatal Surveys.
Methods And Findings: A total of 29,750 women who had given birth to a live infant by vaginal delivery were included.
Updates Surg
January 2025
1St Propaedeutic Surgical Department, University Hospital of Thessaloniki AHEPA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), 5462, Thessaloniki, Greece.
The unprecedented technical and technological evolution in thyroid surgery has labelled it as an extremely safe and efficient procedure, and indeed "typifies perhaps better than any other operation the supreme triumph of the surgeon's art."-William Halsted, 1852-1922. Surgeon's experience reflected by annual case load is the most important denominator in thyroid surgery.
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January 2025
From the Departments of Radiology and Population Health, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY (S.K.K.); Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Wash (R.G.); Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY (N.M., C.H.); Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, NY (C.H., E.B.E.); and Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY (E.B.E.).
Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests are already being marketed as noninvasive, convenient opportunities to test for multiple cancer types with a single blood sample. The technology varies-involving detection of circulating tumor DNA, fragments of DNA, RNA, or proteins unique to each targeted cancer. The priorities and tradeoffs of reaching diagnostic resolution in the setting of possible false positives and negatives remain under active study.
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