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New Content Item It’s about time: mitigating cancer-related cognitive impairments through findings from computational models of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task

AT-0174, a novel dual IDO1/TDO2 enzyme inhibitor, synergises with temozolomide to improve survival in an orthotopic mouse model of glioblastoma

New Content Item Influence of cryoablation versus operation on circulating lymphocyte subsets in patients with early-stage renal cell carcinoma

New Content Item Antitumour effects of SFX-01 molecule in combination with ionizing radiation in preclinical and in vivo models of rhabdomyosarcoma

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Comparative transcriptome of normal and cancer-associated fibroblasts

Authors: Apoorva Abikar, Mohammad Mehaboob Subhani Mustafa, Radhika Rajiv Athalye, Namratha Nadig, Ninad Tamboli, Vinod Babu, Ramaiah Keshavamurthy and Prathibha Ranganathan

Content type: Research 5 October 2024
CYRAD: a translational study assessing immune response to radiotherapy by photons or protons in postoperative head and neck cancer patients through circulating leukocyte subpopulations and cytokine levels

Authors: Juliette Thariat, Thao-Nguyen Pham, Julie Coupey, Benedicte Clarisse, Jean-Michel Grellard, Nathalie Rousseau, Mathieu Césaire and Samuel Valable

Content type: Study Protocol 5 October 2024
Deep learning-based characterization of pathological subtypes in lung invasive adenocarcinoma utilizing ¹⁸F-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging

Authors: Dongbo Wu, Yingci Li, Mingyan Zhou, Feifei Gong and Jiankun Li

Content type: Research 5 October 2024
Comparison of pathologic response and survival outcomes between neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) and neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy (nICT) in patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a propensity score-matched analysis

Authors: Yi Wang, Ke Ma, Huan Zhang, Lei Wu, Li Liu, Yehan Zhou, Lin Peng, Qifeng Wang and Xiang Zhuang

Content type: Research 5 October 2024
Prognostic factors and risk-stratification model of recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma treated with cetuximab containing regimen

Authors: Muh-Hwa Yang, Tien-Hua Chen, Hung-Ming Wang, Jason Chia-Hsun Hsieh, Huai-Cheng Huang, Meng-Che Hsieh, Chia-Jui Yen, Shang-Yin Wu, Chun-Hung Hua, Ming-Yu Lien, Yi-Fang Chang, Hui-Ching Wang, Chih-Yen Chien, Tai-Lin Huang, Hsueh-Ju Lu, Jin-Ching Lin…

Content type: Research 5 October 2024

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M1 and M2 macrophages derived from THP-1 cells differentially modulate the response of cancer cells to etoposide

Authors: Marie Genin, Francois Clement, Antoine Fattaccioli, Martine Raes and Carine Michiels

Content type: Research article 8 August 2015
An electronic application for rapidly calculating Charlson comorbidity score

Authors: William H Hall, Ramanathan Ramachandran, Samir Narayan, Ashesh B Jani and Srinivasan Vijayakumar

Content type: Software 20 December 2004
Does colon cancer ever metastasize to bone first? a temporal analysis of colorectal cancer progression

Authors: Eira S Roth, David T Fetzer, Bruce J Barron, Usha A Joseph, Isis W Gayed and David Q Wan

Content type: Research article 7 August 2009
Depression and anxiety among people living with and beyond cancer: a growing clinical and research priority

Authors: Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Lee Knifton, Kathryn A. Robb, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi and Daniel J. Smith

Content type: Debate 11 October 2019
Resveratrol suppresses epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in colorectal cancer through TGF-β1/Smads signaling pathway mediated Snail/E-cadherin expression

Authors: Qing Ji, Xuan Liu, Zhifen Han, Lihong Zhou, Hua Sui, Linlin Yan, Haili Jiang, Jianlin Ren, Jianfeng Cai and Qi Li

Content type: Research article 5 March 2015

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Targeted Therapies for Cancer
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Microbiome and Cancer
Guest edited by Christopher Staley, Jacques Ravel, Sean Devlin
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Cross journal collection: Advances in CAR-T immunotherapy
Guest edited by Profs Marko Radic, Djordje Atanackovic and Tim Luetkens
Collection published: 30 June 2020

Cross journal collection: Precision Oncology
Collection published: 28 August 2019

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The COUP-1 trial: A phase II study of the PI3K inhibitor copanlisib in combination with the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab for patients with marginal zone lymphoma

The CREATIVE trial: phase IA dose-escalation study of PHI-101, a new checkpoint kinase 2 inhibitor, for platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer

PIONEER-Panc: a platform trial for phase II randomized investigations of new and emerging therapies for localized pancreatic cancer

OncoSNIPE® Study: Molecular profiles associated with development of resistance in solid cancer patients

The CRCbiome study: a large prospective cohort study examining the role of lifestyle and the gut microbiome in colorectal cancer screening participants

SPARC study: A sexual rehabilitation intervention for women with gynaecological cancer receiving radiotherapy

MULISARC trial: molecular profiling of advanced soft-tissue sarcomas

THUNDER 2: THeragnostic Utilities for Neoplastic DisEases of the Rectum by MRI guided radiotherapy

The ISCON-trial : laparoscopic ischemic conditioning prior to esophagectomy in patients with esophageal cancer and arterial calcifications

The HoSAGE Trial: sarcopenia in older patient with intermediate/high-risk prostate cancer, prevalence and incidence after androgen deprivation therapy

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Comparative transcriptome of normal and cancer-associated fibroblasts

CYRAD: a translational study assessing immune response to radiotherapy by photons or protons in postoperative head and neck cancer patients through circulating leukocyte subpopulations and cytokine levels

Deep learning-based characterization of pathological subtypes in lung invasive adenocarcinoma utilizing ¹⁸F-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging

Comparison of pathologic response and survival outcomes between neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) and neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy (nICT) in patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a propensity score-matched analysis

Prognostic factors and risk-stratification model of recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma treated with cetuximab containing regimen

M1 and M2 macrophages derived from THP-1 cells differentially modulate the response of cancer cells to etoposide

An electronic application for rapidly calculating Charlson comorbidity score

Does colon cancer ever metastasize to bone first? a temporal analysis of colorectal cancer progression

Depression and anxiety among people living with and beyond cancer: a growing clinical and research priority

Resveratrol suppresses epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in colorectal cancer through TGF-β1/Smads signaling pathway mediated Snail/E-cadherin expression

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