Background/aims: 9-[2-(phosphonomethoxy)ethyl]guanine (PMEG) is one of the most active antiproliferative compounds in a series of acyclic nucleoside phosphonates and is active in intraperitoneal P388 tumors in mice.
Methods: We synthesized octadecyloxyethyl (ODE) and hexadecyloxypropyl esters of PMEG and compared their antiproliferative activity with unmodified PMEG in primary human fibroblasts and CaSki, Me-180 and HeLa human cervical cancer cell lines in vitro.
Results: ODE-PMEG had excellent antiproliferative activity in vitro in this panel of human cervical cancers. We compared the effects of ODE-PMEG and ODE-cidofovir (ODE-CDV) in a solid tumor model using Me-180 human cervical cancer cell lines in athymic nude mice. Intratumoral injection of 25 microg of ODE-PMEG or 100 microg of ODE-CDV daily for 21 days followed by observation for 20-35 days resulted in near-complete disappearance of measurable cervical cancers.
Conclusion: ODE-PMEG may be suitable for local or topical treatment of cervical dysplasia.
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JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Importance: Cervical cancer screening is a crucial public health intervention, but screening disparities exist for women with physical disabilities (WWPD).
Objective: To explore the experiences of WWPD with both traditional speculum examination-based screening and at-home self-sampling for cervical cancer screening.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This qualitative study enrolled 56 WWPD to test self-sampling kits, provide feedback via a survey, and participate in a qualitative interview.
JASA Express Lett
January 2025
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98103, USA.
Pitch perception affects children's ability to perceive speech, appreciate music, and learn in noisy environments, such as their classrooms. Here, we investigated pitch perception for pure tones as well as resolved and unresolved complex tones with a fundamental frequency of 400 Hz in 8- to 11-year-old children and adults. Pitch perception in children was better for resolved relative to unresolved complex tones, consistent with adults.
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January 2025
Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
Objective: This research was undertaken to identify risk factors for the involvement of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in cases of endometrial cancer.
Methods: From February 2016 to April 2021, the cases of 874 women with endometrial cancer treated with the SLN algorithm at 11 institutions were analyzed in this retrospective study. Clinical and pathologic data were reviewed, and logistic regression was applied to identify predictive factors for SLN involvement.
Int J Gynecol Cancer
January 2025
Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bern, Switzerland.
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the role of pre-sacral sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in patients with uterine cancer.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study includes patients with endometrial or cervical cancer who underwent minimally invasive indocyanine green SLN mapping at the Bern University Hospital from December 2012 to December 2022. A complete ultra-staging of the SLNs was performed in all cases.
Int J Gynecol Cancer
January 2025
Institute of Image-Guided Surgery, IHU Strasbourg, France; University of Strasbourg, ICube, Laboratory of Engineering, Computer Science and Imaging, Department of Robotics, Imaging, Teledetection and Healthcare Technologies, CNRS, UMR, Strasbourg, France.
Objective: Evaluation of prognostic factors is crucial in patients with endometrial cancer for optimal treatment planning and prognosis assessment. This study proposes a deep learning pipeline for tumor and uterus segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images to predict deep myometrial invasion and cervical stroma invasion and thus assist clinicians in pre-operative workups.
Methods: Two experts consensually reviewed the MRIs and assessed myometrial invasion and cervical stromal invasion as per the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging classification, to compare the diagnostic performance of the model with the radiologic consensus.
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