Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · March 2025
BACKGROUND: Refinement of the risk classification for localized prostate cancer is warranted to aid in clinical decision making. A systematic analysis was undertaken to evaluate the prognostic ability of three genomic classifiers, Decipher, GPS, and Prolar ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Intern Med · February 2025
BACKGROUND: Tissue-based genomic classifiers (GCs) have been developed to improve prostate cancer (PCa) risk assessment and treatment recommendations. PURPOSE: To summarize the impact of the Decipher, Oncotype DX Genomic Prostate Score (GPS), and Prolaris ...
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Journal ArticleBlood Adv · February 13, 2024
Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a debilitating, autoimmune-like syndrome that can occur after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Constitutively activated B cells contribute to ongoing alloreactivity and autoreactivity in patie ...
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ConferenceBlood · November 2, 2023
Prevention and treatment of chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD), a debilitating late immune toxicity in patients after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT), who are otherwise cured of hematolo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Clinical Oncology · June 1, 2023
7541 Background: Oral inhibitors of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTKi) are used for a number of B-cell malignancies, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) and lymphopl ...
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Journal ArticleCommun Biol · July 22, 2021
Natural Killer (NK) cell dysfunction is associated with poorer clinical outcome in cancer patients. What regulates NK cell dysfunction in tumor microenvironment is not well understood. Here, we demonstrate that the human tumor-derived NKG2D ligand soluble ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2021
e21027 Background: Hispanic (H) patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tend to have more advanced disease at time of diagnosis and less likely to receive treatment compared to non-Hispanic white (NHW) Americans. While s ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2021
e21210 Background: Treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) has been shown to yield durable responses. High neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios (NLR), low lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratios ...
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Journal ArticleClinical medicine insights. Case reports · January 2021
SARS-CoV-2 emerged as a worldwide pandemic in late 2019 and initially was described as a primary respiratory illness. The clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are now known to encompass nearly all organ systems, including the central nervous system. We pres ...
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Journal ArticleBlood · November 5, 2020
BACKGROUND: Stratification using cytogenetics (CG), either metaphase karyotyping or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is used to identify patients (pts) with multiple myeloma (MM) who are at higher risk of relapse and tend to have poorer su ...
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Journal ArticleBlood Cancer Discovery · November 1, 2020
AbstractChimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells are an emerging approach for the treatment of hematologic and solid tumor malignancies. Axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel) and tisagenlecleucel were the first ...
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Journal ArticleCureus · September 30, 2020
Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) is an extremely rare malignancy that has been described in younger male patients of African descent with a history of sickle cell disease or trait. We describe a rather unique case of RMC in an older male patient who initial ...
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Journal ArticleJ Hematol Oncol · June 9, 2020
BACKGROUND: Melanoma patients who have detectable serum soluble NKG2D ligands either at the baseline or post-treatment of PD1/PDL1 blockade exhibit poor overall survival. Among families of soluble human NKG2D ligands, the soluble human MHC I chain-related ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2020
e15135 Background: While the use of monoclonal antibodies targeting the PD-1 axis in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) continues to expand since initial FDA approval in 2015, factors predictive of response still remai ...
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Journal ArticleOncotarget · January 5, 2016
Shedding of the human NKG2D ligand MIC (MHC class I-chain-related molecule) from tumor cell surfaces correlates with progression of many epithelial cancers. Shedding-derived soluble MIC (sMIC) enables tumor immune escape through multiple immune suppressive ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol · December 15, 2015
The ETS factor Friend leukemia virus integration 1 (FLI1) is a key modulator of lupus disease expression. Overexpressing FLI1 in healthy mice results in the development of an autoimmune kidney disease similar to that observed in lupus. Lowering the global ...
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Journal ArticleFront Immunol · 2015
The activating/co-stimulatory receptor NKG2D (natural-killer group 2, member D) is expressed on the surface of all human NK, NKT, CD8(+) T, and subsets of γδ(+) T cells. The significance of NKG2D function in tumor immunity has been well demonstrated in exp ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2013
Systemic Lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease caused, in part, by abnormalities in cells of the immune system including B and T cells. Genetically reducing globally the expression of the ETS transcription factor FLI1 by 50% in two lupus mouse ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Clin Exp Med · 2008
Heterotrimeric Gi proteins have been previously implicated in signaling leading to inflammatory mediator production induced by bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). beta-arrestins are ubiquitously expressed proteins that alter G-protein-coupled receptors sig ...
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