TLRs are a class of PRRs that play a vital role in innate immunity. TLRs are expressed on immune cells and mammary epithelial cells. They can promote tumor growth, angiogenesis, invasion, and viability signaling. The current study aimed to test the correlation between histologic types and grades of neoplasms and TLRs gene expression levels. Twenty-one tissue samples of canine mammary neoplasms were stained with H&E. Then, it evaluated histologic type and grade according to the methods of Goldschmidt et al. and Peña, respectively. We established real-time PCR quantification assays to measure the mRNA abundances of TLRs in normal and neoplastic mammary glands. Profile pattern of TLR 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 genes expression in canine mammary glands performed in 21 samples of mammary gland neoplasms and three non-neoplastic mammary gland samples from normal dogs. TLR 3, 4, and 9 mRNA overexpression were detected. In addition, tubulopapillary carcinoma grade II, SCC grade III, and carcinoma mixed type grade II demonstrated the highest relative TLR-3, and 9 mRNA expression levels. Complex carcinoma grade I, ductal carcinoma grade II, and anaplastic carcinoma grade II showed the highest relative TLR4 mRNA expression level. Although histopathological characteristics of tumors, including histologic type, grade, and inflammation, influenced TLRs mRNA expression level, such correlation was insignificant (P > 0.05).
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Background: Immunotherapy is increasingly significant in treating metastatic gastric cancer. This prospective phase 2 study investigates the efficacy and safety of combining nivolumab with chemotherapy in patients with metastatic gastric cancer co-expressing FGFR2 and PD-L1.
Methods: Eligible patients were aged 18 years or older, with previously untreated HER-2 negative, PD-L1 positive, and FGFR2 positive metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma.
Sci Rep
January 2025
Department of Comprehensive Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Nantong First People's Hospital, Affiliated Hospital 2 of Nantong University, 666 Shengli Road, Chongchuan District, Nantong City, 226014, Jiangsu Province, China.
The long-term impact of postoperative morbidity following laparoscopic liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma is unclear. This study aimed to investigate whether the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma patients were affected by postoperative morbidity after laparoscopic liver resection. Hepatocellular carcinoma patients who underwent curative-intent laparoscopic liver resection were included.
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January 2025
Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Mount Sinai Hospital.
Purpose: To investigate if Yttrium-90 radioembolization (Y90 TARE) is a safe and effective treatment in people living with HIV (PLWH) with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) across the BCLC stage spectrum.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of all patients with HCC presented at a multidisciplinary institutional liver tumor board who underwent Y90 TARE between January 2014 and June 2023. Thirty-nine patients with documented HIV seropositivity prior to Y90 TARE and adherence to HAART were included.
Lancet
January 2025
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Pisa School of Medicine, Pisa, Italy.
Background: Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) is standard of care for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma that is amenable to embolisation; however, median progression-free survival is still approximately 7 months. We aimed to assess whether adding durvalumab, with or without bevacizumab, might improve progression-free survival.
Methods: In this multiregional, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study (EMERALD-1), adults aged 18 years or older with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma amenable to embolisation, an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1 at enrolment, and at least one measurable intrahepatic lesion per modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST) were enrolled at 157 medical sites including research centres and general and specialist hospitals in 18 countries.
Lancet
January 2025
Mount Sinai Liver Cancer Program, Division of Liver Diseases, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Liver Cancer Translational Research Group, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address:
Background: Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) is standard care for unresectable, non-metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma. We aimed to evaluate the addition of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab to TACE versus dual placebo plus TACE in patients with unresectable, non-metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma.
Methods: In this multicentre, randomised, double-blind, phase 3 study (LEAP-012), patients were recruited from 137 global sites in 33 countries or regions.
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