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Frequent adaptive immune responses against arginase-1
The enzyme arginase-1 reduces the availability of arginine to tumor-infiltrating immune cells, thus reducing T-cell functionality in the tumor milieu. Arginase-1 is expressed by some cancer cells and by immune inhibitory cells, such as myeloid-derived ...
Evelina Martinenaite +9 more
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Hedgehog Signalling in Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer [PDF]
Objectives: Androgen-deprivation therapy effectively shrinks hormone-naïve prostate cancer, both in the prostate and at sites of distant metastasis.
Bisson, Isabelle +7 more
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Identification and Characterization of AES-135, a Hydroxamic Acid-Based HDAC Inhibitor That Prolongs Survival in an Orthotopic Mouse Model of Pancreatic Cancer [PDF]
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive, incurable cancer with a 20% 1 year survival rate. While standard-of-care therapy can prolong life in a small fraction of cases, PDAC is inherently resistant to current treatments, and novel ...
Adile, Ashley A. +19 more
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The prognosis of patients with some kinds of cancers whose patients are often found unresectable upon diagnosis is still dismal. In these fields, development of a new therapeutic modality is needed and gene therapy represents one promising strategy. So far, numerous cancer gene therapy clinical trials based on these principles have been carried out ...
Masato, Yamamoto, David T, Curiel
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Folate-conjugated nanoparticles as a potent therapeutic approach in targeted cancer therapy [PDF]
The selective and efficient drug delivery to tumor cells can remarkably improve different cancer therapeutic approaches. There are several nanoparticles (NPs) which can act as a potent drug carrier for cancer therapy.
Bahrami, B. +8 more
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Targeting ROCK activity to disrupt and prime pancreatic cancer for chemotherapy [PDF]
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a devastating disease; the identification of novel targets and development of effective treatment strategies are urgently needed to improve patient outcomes.
Olson, Michael F. +4 more
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Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it plans to draft new guidelines for testing and approving the use of multidrug treatments for diseases. For cancer treatment, the need for this approach and its attendant guidelines are based on an advanced understanding of the disease that has emerged from 30 years of research. If
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Actionability classification of variants of unknown significance correlates with functional effect
Genomically-informed therapy requires consideration of the functional impact of genomic alterations on protein expression and/or function. However, a substantial number of variants are of unknown significance (VUS).
Amber Johnson +18 more
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Selective glucocorticoid receptor-activating adjuvant therapy in cancer treatments [PDF]
Although adverse effects and glucocorticoid resistance cripple their chronic use, glucocorticoids form the mainstay therapy for acute and chronic inflammatory disorders, and play an important role in treatment protocols of both lymphoid malignancies and ...
Beck, Ilse +5 more
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Fifteen years of reported incidents were reviewed to provide insight into the effectiveness of an Incident Learning System (ISL). The actual error rate over the 15 years was 1.3 reported errors per 1000 treatment attendances.
Sandie Smith +8 more
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