PURPOSE The aim of this study was to show that novel photodynamic therapy (PDT) sensitizers can be activated by two-photon absorption in the near-IR region of the spectrum and to show, for the first time, that such activation can lead to tumor regressions at significant tissue depth. These experiments also evaluated effects of high-energy femtosecond pulsed laser irradiation on normal tissues a...

BACKGROUND Further advances of targeted cancer therapy require comprehensive in-depth profiling of somatic mutations that are present in subpopulations of tumor cells in a clinical tumor sample. However, it is unclear to what extent such intratumor heterogeneity is present and whether it may affect clinical decision-making. To study this question, we established a deep targeted sequencing platf...

Background & Objectives: Tumor diathesis (TD) is defined as granular proteinaceous precipitates on slide surface of cytologic smears. It is found in the background of smears of invasive carcinoma but not in all cases. The aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of TD in cervicovaginal smears from patients with uterine cervix carcinoma. Methods: Cytological smears and histological s...

OBJECTIVE Compare the dermatoscopy vascular features of well differentiated with non-well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). DESIGN A prospective study of 294 consecutive cases of histopathologically confirmed invasive SCC compared the dermatoscopic vascular features of well to combined moderate and poorly differentiated tumors. These features were recorded live directly from the p...

We aimed to determine the prognostic significance of tumor and lymph node (LN) characteristics on disease free survival (DFS) in patients who underwent surgery for squamous cell vulvar carcinoma. A total of 94 patients who underwent vulvar surgery and groin dissection were included. The impact of clinicopathologic variables such as age, body mass index, tumor size, tumor depth, total and metast...

conclusions pc-rplnd is one the major operations in the field of urology, which is associated with significant adjunctive surgeries. in appropriate cases, pc-rplnd was associated with good cancer specific survival in tertiary oncology center. results twenty-one patients underwent bilateral pc-rplnd. mean age was 26.3 years (ranged 16 - 47). mean size of retroperitoneal mass after chemotherapy w...

We have developed a targeted next generation sequencing (NGS) methodology for sensitive DNA variant detection that is highly optimized for clinical specimens and enables the accurate detection of clinically actionable mutations from low input DNA quantities. This strategy provides reliable, uniform, and high depth (>1000x) sequencing across gene regions representing >500 known cancerassociated ...

We have developed a targeted next generation sequencing (NGS) methodology for sensitive DNA variant detection that is highly optimized for clinical specimens and enables the accurate detection of clinically actionable mutations from low input DNA quantities. This strategy provides reliable, uniform, and high depth (>1000x) sequencing across gene regions representing >500 known cancerassociated ...