Abscopal Effect After SIRT: It Exists, but How Could We Use It?

Colour : How We See It and How We Use It

The Abscopal Effect of Radiation Therapy: What Is It and How Can We Use It in Breast Cancer?

The abscopal effect refers to the ability of localized radiation to trigger systemic antitumor effects. Over the past 50 years, reports on the abscopal effect arising from conventional radiation have been relatively rare. However, with the continued development and use of immunotherapy strategies incorporating radiotherapy with targeted immunomodulators and immune checkpoint blockade, the absco...

Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

Meiosis: how could it work?

A physical connection between homologs is required for reductional segregation at the first division of meiosis. This connection is usually provided by one or a few well-spaced crossovers. A speculative overview of processes leading to formation of these crossovers is presented.

Use it or lose it! But use it wisely.

reasons to fit hearing aids bilaterally: better sound localization and better speech understanding in background noise. To be sure, some elderly persons may do better when fitted monaurally, perhaps due to an age-related interaural interference effect, but these two principal advantages of bilateral fittings have been demonstrated many times over in the majority of hearing aid users. In this is...