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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. This study aims to evaluate the clinical efficacy and side effects of setting up a high-risk clinical target volume (CTV-hr) alongside simultaneous integrated boost intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT-SIB) ...

    Authors: Yuqi Jiang, Jing Wang, Peng Jiang, Xiang Wang, Lei Zhang and Yongchun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:481
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  39. The role of ATF2 in colon cancer (CC) is controversial. Recently, we reported that low ATF2 expression is characteristic of highly invasive tumors, suggesting that ATF2 might also be involved in therapy resist...

    Authors: Hao Yang, Kerstin Huebner, Chuanpit Hampel, Katharina Erlenbach-Wuensch, Selva Babu Selvamani, Vikas Shukla, Carol I. Geppert, Arndt Hartmann, Vijayalakshmi Mahadevan and Regine Schneider-Stock
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:480
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  40. B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) family proteins are key regulators of apoptosis, which possess four conserved Bcl-2 homologies (BH) domains. Among the BH domains, the BH3 domain is considered as a potent ‘death doma...

    Authors: Yihua Lin, Yiling Zhao, Minggui Chen, Zishuo Li, Qiao Liu, Jian Chen, Yi Ding, Chunyong Ding, Ye Ding, Cuiling Qi, Lingyun Zheng, Jiangchao Li, Rongxin Zhang, Jia Zhou, Lijing Wang and Qian-Qian Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:479
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  41. ADP-ribosylation factor-like protein 4 C (ARL4C) is a member of the ARF small GTP-binding protein subfamily. The ARL4C gene is highly expressed in colorectal cancer (CRC). ARL4C protein promotes cell motility, in...

    Authors: Ryo Kanai, Takeshi Uehara, Takahiro Yoshizawa, Masato Kamakura, Tomoyuki Nakajima, Yasuhiro Kinugawa, Mai Iwaya, Shiho Asaka, Masato Kitazawa, Tadanobu Nagaya and Hiroyoshi Ota
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:478
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  42. To investigate the value of CT radiomics features of meso-esophageal fat in the overall survival (OS) prediction of patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

    Authors: Shuo Yan, Fei-Ping Li, Lian Jian, Hai-Tao Zhu, Bo Zhao, Xiao-Ting Li, Yan-Jie Shi and Ying-Shi Sun
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:477
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  44. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are important biological indicators of the lung cancer prognosis, and CTC counting and typing may provide helpful biological information for the diagnosis and treatment of lung c...

    Authors: Ying Xu, Xue Ren, Tong Jiang, Shuang Lv, Kuanke Gao, Yunen Liu and Ying Yan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:475
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  45. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related death, worldwide. The predominant causative factor for HCC is hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. We conducted a meta-analysis to esti...

    Authors: Danxue Huang, Liyuan Ke, Hongxia Cui and Su Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:474
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  46. The contributive role of the microbiome in tumor progression has been reported in multiple studies, such as the Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nucleatum) in breast cancer (BC). This study aimed to explore the role o...

    Authors: Guiqiu Li, Yan Sun, Yu Huang, Jie Lian, Shaoyuan Wu, Dixian Luo and Hui Gong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:473
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  47. Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequently diagnosed and found to be the leading cause of cancer death in women, especially in low and middle-income countries. Even though cervical cancer is a preventable d...

    Authors: Alemayehu Sayih Belay, Wondwossen Niguse Asmare and Aychew Kassie
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:472
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  48. Aprepitant, as a neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1R) antagonist, originally applied for curing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, has been reported to have significant antitumor effect on several malignant tu...

    Authors: Xueyan Cao, Yang Yang, Wei Zhou, Yue Wang, Xue Wang, Xianxiu Ge, Fei Wang, Fangfang Zhou, Xueting Deng and Lin Miao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:471
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  49. Delay in the diagnosis of childhood cancer is one of the major health problem that contribute to decreased survival rates of children particularly in developing nations. Despite advances in the field of pediat...

    Authors: Yimenu Gardie, Mulugeta Wassie, Seid Wodajo, Mastewal Giza, Mulugeta Ayalew, Yihenew Sewale, Zelalem Feleke and Melkamu Tilahun Dessie
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:469
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  50. Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) and total mesorectal excision are standard treatment regimen for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). This sphincter-saving treatment strategy may be accomp...

    Authors: Jie Shi, Yi-Kan Cheng, Fang He, Jian Zheng, Yun-Long Wang, Xiang-Bo Wan, Hong-Cheng Lin and Xin-Juan Fan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2023 23:467
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

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