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Cell-free mitochondrial DNA copy number variation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: A study of non-invasive biomarker from Northeast India

Tumor Biology, 2017
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. The lifestyle, food habits, and customary practices manifest the Northeast Indian population toward higher susceptibility to develop head and neck squamous cell ...
Manish Kumar, Shilpee Srivastava, Seram Anil Singh, Anup Kumar Das, Ganesh Chandra Das, Bishal Dhar, Sankar Kumar Ghosh, Rosy Mondal   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMMUNE THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH DISSEMINATED RECURRENT SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE HEAD AND NECK

Опухоли головы и шеи, 2017
Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma diagnosed with recurrent tumor or distant metastases usually have the worst prognosis. Chemotherapeutic options are very limited in these patients; there is a probability of drug resistance development.
A. M. Mudunov, M. N. Narimanov, D. A. Safarov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Edge Information‐Augmented Auxiliary Diagnosis Method for Cervical Cancer in Medical Decision‐Making Systems

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
To address the problems of insufficient utilization of multiscale features and inefficient feature sharing between tasks in the model, this study proposes an edge‐enhanced intelligent cervical cancer screening method that achieves feature reuse and improves efficiency by jointly optimizing nucleolus segmentation and lesion classification.
Li Wen, Xiaoqing Zhang, Tingyi Dai, Fangfang Gou, Jia Wu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technical and clinical performance of a new assay to detect squamous cell carcinoma antigen levels for the differential diagnosis of cervical, lung, and head and neck cancer

Tumor Biology, 2018
In squamous cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma antigen levels are often elevated. This multi-center study evaluated the technical performance of a new Elecsys ® squamous cell carcinoma assay, which measures serum squamous cell carcinoma antigen 1 ...
Stefan Holdenrieder, Rafael Molina, Ling Qiu, Xiuyi Zhi, Sandra Rutz, Christine Engel, Pia Kasper-Sauer, Farshid Dayyani, Catharina M Korse   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stage T4B head and neck cancer survival outcome comparisons based on treatment modality: is surgery a viable treatment option? [PDF]

, 2016
IMPORTANCE: Advanced stage head and neck cancers are often deemed unresectable due to the aggressive nature of the cancer. In evaluating survival patterns of patients with stage IVb tumors, it is valuable to determine whether patients who undergo ...
Kidwai, Neiha
core   +1 more source

Mepylome: A Point‐of‐Care Tumor Diagnostic Toolkit for Tumor DNA Methylation and Copy Number Analysis

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
DNA methylation and chromosomal copy number profiling have recently become essential for tumor diagnostics. The open‐source tool Mepylome enables this task in clinical routine. It combines several machine learning strategies and allows users to interactively examine respective data through an intuitive graphical interface. Running up to 65 times faster
Jon Brugger, Claus Hultschig, Daniel Baumhoer, Baptiste Ameline, Benjamin Maciej Freyter, Stephan Frank, Jürgen Hench   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lack of Adjuvant Radiotherapy May Increase Risk of Retropharyngeal Node Recurrence in Patients with Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck after Transoral Robotic Surgery

Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, 2013
Purpose. Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has increased in popularity in the management of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. However, TORS does not address the neck or retropharyngeal nodes (RPN).
Waleed F. Mourad, Dukagjin M. Blakaj, Rafi Kabarriti, Rebekah Young, Rania A. Shourbaji, Jonathan Glanzman, Shyamal Patel, Ravindra Yaparpalvi, Shalom Kalnicki, Madhur K. Garg   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Current state and future of photodynamic therapy for the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2016
Photodynamic therapy has shown promise in the treatment of early head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). In photodynamic therapy (PDT), a light sensitive drug (photosensitizer) and visible light cause cancer cell death by the creation of singlet ...
Christina Mimikos, Gal Shafirstein, Hassan Arshad   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anatomic Diagram as a Novel Assessment Strategy for Subclinical Local Residual Disease in Sinonasal Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Intestinal‐type Adenocarcinoma

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective In the last two decades, transnasal endoscopic surgery (TES) has become pivotal in the management of sinonasal tumors. This approach involves a multiblock tumor resection, adding complexity to the interpretation of surgical margins after pathological examination.
Piergiorgio Gaudioso, Leonardo Calvanese, Stefano Taboni, Giacomo Contro, Diego Cazzador, Tommaso Saccardo, Gloria Schiavo, Vittorio Rampinelli, Alberto Schreiber, Gabriele Testa, Cesare Piazza, Enzo Emanuelli, Davide Mattavelli, Piero Nicolai, Marco Ferrari   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness and tolerance of electrochemotherapy as palliative therapy for patients with head and neck cancer and malignant melanoma and its relation to early skin reaction

Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerance after the electrochemotherapy treatment for local therapy of cutaneous and subcutaneous metastases of head-and-neck tumors and malignant melanoma refractory to standard therapies, mainly in neck ...
Miguel Caballero-Borrego, Sandra Coll, Pilar Navarrete   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source