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  1. Cancer patients with newly created ostomies face complications that reduce quality of life (QOL) and increase morbidity and mortality. This proof-of-concept study examined the feasibility, usability, acceptabi...

    Authors: Shenmeng Xu, Xianming Tan, Chunxuan Ma, Rebecca S. McElyea, Karl Shieh, Angela M. Stover, Angela Smith, Karyn Stitzenberg, Ethan Basch and Lixin Song
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:532
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  2. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and cancer are strongly associated. In France, evidence on patients with pancreatic, upper GI [gastrointestinal], lower GI, lung, or breast cancer-associated VTE and their hospital...

    Authors: F. Couturaud, I. Mahé, J. Schmidt, J-C. Gleize, T. Lafon, A. Saighi, F. Sedjelmaci, L. Bertoletti and P. Mismetti
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:531
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  3. Tumor necrosis (TN) was associated with poor prognosis. However, the traditional classification of TN ignored spatial intratumor heterogeneity, which may be associated with important prognosis. The purpose of ...

    Authors: Jianhua Chen, Zhijun Li, Zhonghua Han, Deyong Kang, Jianli Ma, Yu Yi, Fangmeng Fu, Wenhui Guo, Liqin Zheng, Gangqin Xi, Jiajia He, Lida Qiu, Lianhuang Li, Qingyuan Zhang, Chuan Wang and Jianxin Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:530
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  4. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are one of the most common endocrine tumors, and liver metastasis (LMs) are the most common location of metastasis from PNETS; However, there is no valid nomogram to pr...

    Authors: Jianbo Li, Long Huang, Chengyu Liao, Guozhong Liu, Yifeng Tian and Shi Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:529
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  5. New immunotherapeutic strategies based on predictors are urgently needed. Toll-like receptor adaptor interacting with SLC15A4 on the lysosome (TASL) was recently confirmed to fulfill an important role in the i...

    Authors: Huanyu Li, Xiaoyu Sun, Yanyun Zhao, Changzhu Zhang, Kai Jiang, Jie Ren, Lijuan Xing and Miao He
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:528
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  6. Whether isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2) R140 and R172 gene mutations affect the prognosis of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is controversial. Here, we performed a meta-analysis to assess their pr...

    Authors: Yao Qin, Kai Shen, Ting Liu and Hongbing Ma
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:527
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  7. NEDD4 family represent an important group of E3 ligases, which regulate various cellular pathways of cell proliferation, cell junction and inflammation. Emerging evidence suggested that NEDD4 family members pa...

    Authors: Liangzi Cao, Hao Li, Xiaofang Liu, Yubang Wang, Bowen Zheng, Chengzhong Xing, Naijin Zhang and Jingwei Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:526
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  8. Cancer stemness has been proven to affect tumorigenesis, metastasis, and drug resistance in various cancers, including lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC). We intended to develop a clinically applicable stemne...

    Authors: Jinzhi Lai, Xinyi Lin, Huangna Zheng, Bilan Xie and Deqiang Fu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:525
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  9. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest cancers based on five-year survival rates. Genes contributing to chemoresistance represent novel therapeutic targets that can improve treatment r...

    Authors: Emily R. Gordon, Carter A. Wright, Mikayla James and Sara J. Cooper
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:524
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  10. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize the predictive and prognostic ability of the log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) staging system and compare it with pathological N (pN) clas...

    Authors: Yiding Li, Guiling Wu, Jinqiang Liu, Yujie Zhang, Wanli Yang, Xiaoqian Wang, Lili Duan, Liaoran Niu, Junfeng Chen, Wei Zhou, Weili Han, Jing Wang, Helun Zhong, Gang Ji, Daiming Fan and Liu Hong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:523
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  11. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is considered one of the most common cancers, characterized by low early detection and high mortality rates, and is a global health challenge. Immunogenic cell death (ICD) is def...

    Authors: Cai-Feng Lin, Zhi-Wen Chen, Feng-Ping Kang, Jian-Fei Hu, Long Huang, Cheng-Yu Liao, Jian-Lin Lai, Yi Huang, Zu-Wei Wang, Yi-Feng Tian and Shi Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:522
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  12. We aim to clarify the controversial associations between EBV-related antibodies and gastric cancer risk.

    Authors: Yun Du, Xia Yu, Ellen T. Chang, Li Yin, Shifeng Lian, Biaohua Wu, Fugui Li, Zhiheng Liang, Yumei Zeng, Bing Chu, Kuangrong Wei, Jiyun Zhan, Xuejun Liang, Weimin Ye and Mingfang Ji
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:521
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  14. Melanoma differentiation-associated gene 7 (Mda-7) encodes IL-24, which can induce apoptosis in cancer cells. A novel gene therapy approach to treat deadly brain tumors, recombinant mda-7 adenovirus (Ad/mda-7)...

    Authors: Seyedeh Maliheh Babazadeh, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Mohsen Zargar, Kazem Baesi, Sayed Younes Hosseini and Amir Ghaemi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:519
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  15. Size and number of lymph nodes (LNs) were reported to be associated with the prognosis of stage II colorectal cancer (CRC). The purpose of this study was to determine the prognostic role of the size of LNs (SL...

    Authors: Shanyou Tong, Menglei Li, Yichao Bao, Long Zhang, Ping Lu, Tong Tong and Junjie Peng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:518
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  16. The aquaporin (AQP) family of proteins has been implicated in the proliferation and growth of gliomas. Expression of AQP8 is higher in human glioma tissues than in normal brain tissues and is positively correl...

    Authors: Zhang Hao, Sheng Huajun, Guo Zhen, Xing Yu, Liu Qian, Cai Ziling, Shen Zihao, Xia Qingqian and Zhu Shujuan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:516
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  17. Our purpose was to ensure that the dose constraints of the organs at risk (OARs) were not exceeded while increasing the prescription dose to the planning target volume (PTV) from 45 to 50.4 Gray (Gy) with the ...

    Authors: Alparslan Serarslan, Yalçın Daştan, Telat Aksu, Rana Elif Yıldız, Bilge Gürsel, Deniz Meydan and Nilgün Özbek Okumuş
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:515
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  18. The association involving mismatch repair (MMR) genes, molecular subtype and specific immune cell group in tumor microenvironment has been focused by more recent studies. Its prognosis value in lung adenocarci...

    Authors: Liangliang Cai, Hujia Hua, Xingyu Jiang, Xintian Xu, Hua Bai, Li Qian and Jianchun Duan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:514
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  19. Cancer cachexia, occurring in ~ 80% pancreatic cancer (PC) patients overall, is a paraneoplastic syndrome mediated by cancer-induced systemic inflammation and characterized by weight loss and skeletal muscle w...

    Authors: Wei-Chih Liao, Chih-Ta Chen, You-Shu Tsai, Xin-Ya Wang, Yen-Tzu Chang, Ming-Shiang Wu and Lu-Ping Chow
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:513
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  20. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most widespread cancer and the fourth leading lethal disease among different societies. It is thought that CRC accounts for about 10% of all newly diagnosed cancer cases wi...

    Authors: Marziyeh Sadat Moslehian, Roya Shabkhizan, Mohammad Reza Asadi, Ahad Bazmani, Mahdi Mahdipour, Sanya Haiaty, Reza Rahbarghazi and Ebrahim Sakhinia
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:512
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  21. This study aimed to identify the biological functions, expression modes, and possible mechanisms underlying the relationship between metastatic human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and MicroRNA-188-5p (miR-188...

    Authors: Yan-hui Wu, Bin Yu, Jiang-min Zhou, Xue-han Shen, Wei-xun Chen, Xi Ai, Chao Leng, Bin-yong Liang and Ya-jie Shao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:511
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  22. Uterine sarcoma is an uncommon aggressive malignancy. Optimal management and prognostic factors have yet to be well recognized due to their rarity and various histological subtypes. This study aims to investig...

    Authors: Saqib Raza Khan, Salman Muhammad Soomar, Tamana Asghari, Arsalan Ahmed and Munira Shabbir Moosajee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:510
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  23. E2F1 has been confirmed to be highly expressed in a variety of cancers. To better understand the prognostic value of E2F1 in cancer patients, this study was conducted to comprehensively evaluate the prognostic...

    Authors: Jingjing Li, Wen Bi, Fang Lu, Bei Pan, Mengqiu Xiong, Lubanga Nasifu, Zhenlin Nie and Bangshun He
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:509
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  24. Benefit finding (BF) - the occurrence of positive life-changes in the aftermath of traumatic live events - has been repeatedly reported in prostate cancer (PCa) survivors, but it remains unclear in which way B...

    Authors: Matthias Jahnen, Patrick Bayer, Valentin H. Meissner, Stefan Schiele, Helga Schulwitz, Jürgen E. Gschwend, Kathleen Herkommer and Andreas Dinkel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:508
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  26. Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor. The current study was conducted to describe the general condition of patients with primary osteosarcoma in a single cancer center in Tianjin, China...

    Authors: Chao Zhang, Haixiao Wu, Guijun Xu, Yao Xu, Wenjuan Ma, Zhijun Li and Jin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:506
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  27. The systemic inflammation score (SIS), based on serum albumin (Alb) and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), is a novel prognostic tool for some tumours. Studies indicate that the SIS can be used as a postopera...

    Authors: Chunyue Huang, Mengyao Wang, Liwen Chen, Hongmei Wang, Donglan Huang, Jianjun Shi, Weijun Zhang, Yunhong Tian and Yujia Zhu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:505
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  28. Molecular subtypes predict prognosis in muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) and are explored as predictive markers. To provide a common base for molecular subtyping and facilitate clinical applications, a co...

    Authors: Florestan J. Koll, Claudia Döring, Csilla Olah, Tibor Szarvas, Jens Köllermann, Benedikt Hoeh, Felix K.-H. Chun, Henning Reis and Peter J. Wild
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:504
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  32. Decisions to participate in cancer trials are associated with uncertainty, distress, wanting to help find a cure, the hope for benefit, and altruism. There is a gap in the literature regarding research examini...

    Authors: Lynn Corcoran, Christine M. Friedenreich, Margaret L. McNeely, Nicole S. Culos-Reed, Gordon Bell, Leanne Dickau, Kerry S. Courneya and Jeff K. Vallance
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:500
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  33. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer and is notorious for its resistance to both chemotherapy and small-molecule inhibitor targeted therapies. Subcellular targeted c...

    Authors: Stefan Mrdenovic, Yanping Wang, Lijuan Yin, Gina Chia-Yi Chu, Yan Ou, Michael S. Lewis, Marija Heffer, Edwin M. Posadas, Haiyen E. Zhau, Leland W. K. Chung, Mouad Edderkaoui, Stephen J. Pandol, Ruoxiang Wang and Yi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:499
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  34. The frailty index (FI) is one way in which frailty can be quantified. While it is measured as a continuous variable, various cut-off points have been used to categorise older adults as frail or non-frail, and ...

    Authors: James A. Fletcher, Benignus Logan, Natasha Reid, Emily H. Gordon, Rahul Ladwa and Ruth E. Hubbard
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:498
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  35. Cancer’s hallmark feature is its ability to evolve, leading to metastasis and recurrence. Although genetic mutations and epigenetic changes have been implicated, they don’t fully explain the leukocytic traits ...

    Authors: Mengtao Li, John R. Basile, Sanjay Mallya and Yi-Ling Lin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:497
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  36. Numerous studies have demonstrated that the high-order features (HOFs) of blood test data can be used to predict the prognosis of patients with different types of cancer. Although the majority of blood HOFs ca...

    Authors: Liping Luo, Yubo Tan, Shixuan Zhao, Man Yang, Yurou Che, Kezhen Li, Jieke Liu, Huaichao Luo, Wenjun Jiang, Yongjie Li and Weidong Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:496
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  37. Breast malignancies are now the most common and deadliest type of neoplasms among women worldwide. Novel therapeutic approaches are needed to combat advanced stages of breast cancer. In this study, we aimed to...

    Authors: Mohammadhossein Pournabee, Mahsa Keshavarz-Fathi, Pooyesh Esmaeili, Pouya Mahdavi Sharif, Fatemeh Nili and Behnaz Jahanbin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:495
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  38. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is an abundant neurohormone in human breast carcinomas that acts on a class of G-protein coupled receptors, of which NPY1R and NPY5R are the most highly expressed. This abundance is exploi...

    Authors: Sydney A. Pascetta, Sarah M. Kirsh, Makenna Cameron and James Uniacke
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:494
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  39. Over the past decade, therapeutic options in head and neck supraglottic squamous cell carcinoma have constantly evolved. The classical total laryngectomy has been partially replaced by alternative organ- and f...

    Authors: S. Hassid, B. Krug, S. Deheneffe, J-F. Daisne, G. Delahaut, G. Lawson, R. Crott and S. Van der Vorst
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:493
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  41. Metabolic reprogramming is one of hallmarks of cancer progression and is of great importance for the tumor microenvironment (TME). As an abundant metabolite, lactate has been found to play a critical role in c...

    Authors: Rui Shi, Haojia Li, Sitian Wei, Zhicheng Yu, Jun Zhang, Qi Zhang, Ting Zhou, Yuwei Yao, Qian Zhang, Tangansu Zhang and Hongbo Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:491
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  42. Thrombocytopenia is a common complication in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia (CIT) leads to dose reduction and treatment delays, lowering chemotherapy efficacy an...

    Authors: Jiwon Shin, Min-Jung Kim, Xingguo Quan, Ji Woong Kim, Sukmook Lee, SaeGwang Park, Jee-Yeong Jeong and Kyungmoo Yea
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:490
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  44. Single-cell RNA-seq has emerged as an innovative technology used to study complex tissues and characterize cell types, states, and lineages at a single-cell level. Classification of bulk tumors by their indivi...

    Authors: Danh D. Truong, Salah-Eddine Lamhamedi-Cherradi, Robert W. Porter, Sandhya Krishnan, Jyothishmathi Swaminathan, Amber Gibson, Alexander J. Lazar, J. Andrew Livingston, Vidya Gopalakrishnan, Nancy Gordon, Najat C. Daw, Nicholas E. Navin, Richard Gorlick and Joseph A. Ludwig
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:488
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  45. Organoids are a three-dimensional (3D) culture system that simulate actual organs. Therefore, tumor organoids are expected to predict precise response to chemotherapy in patients. However, to date, few studies...

    Authors: Fumiya Ito, Katsuhiro Kato, Izumi Yanatori, Yuki Maeda, Toyoaki Murohara and Shinya Toyokuni
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:487
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  46. Thermal therapy induces an immune response in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the dynamic characteristics of the natural killer (NK) cell immune response post-thermal ablation remain unclear....

    Authors: Hai-Yan Wang, Xiong-Wei Cui, Yong-Hong Zhang, Yu Chen, Ning-Ning Lu, Li Bai and Zhong-Ping Duan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:486
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  47. Most traditional procedures can destroy tissue natural structure, and the information on spatial distribution and temporal distribution of immune milieu in situ would be lost. We aimed to explore the potential...

    Authors: Jiangchun Wu, Qinhao Guo, Jun Zhu, Yong Wu, Simin Wang, Siyuan Liang, Xingzhu Ju and Xiaohua Wu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:485
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  48. Altered cellular metabolism has long been recognized as a hallmark of cancer. Oncogenic signaling cascades induce metabolic rewiring that further supports tumorigenesis, therapy resistance and metastasis. In v...

    Authors: Marija Trajkovic-Arsic and Elavarasan Subramani
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:484
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  49. The authors intend to compare the effects of each targeted therapy (TT) in the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) using big data based on the Korean National Health Insurance Sys...

    Authors: Dong Hyuk Kang, Joo Yong Lee, Yunhee Lee and U-Syn Ha
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:483
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  50. We aimed to examine whether patients with de novo and relapsed/progressed stage IIIB–IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) or anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) mutat...

    Authors: Byeong-Chan Oh, Ae-Ryeo Cho, Jin Hyun Nam, So-Young Yang, Min Ji Kim, Sun-Hong Kwon and Eui-Kyung Lee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:482
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