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Cancers, Volume 8, Issue 12

December 2016 - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

  • Erratum
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,452 Views
1 Page

Erratum: Roche, J. et al. Global Decrease of Histone H3K27 Acetylation in ZEB1-Induced Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Lung Cancer Cells. Cancers, 2013, 5, 334–356

  • Joëlle Roche,
  • Patrick Nasarre,
  • Robert Gemmill,
  • Aleksander Baldys,
  • Julien Pontis,
  • Christopher Korch,
  • Joëlle Guilhot,
  • Slimane Ait-Si-Ali and
  • Harry Drabkin

15 December 2016

The authors wish to make the following correction to their paper [...]

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,712 Views
7 Pages

13 December 2016

Evidence and information is an integral part of the processes enabling clinical and service delivery within health. It is used by health professionals in clinical practice and in developing their professional knowledge, by policy makers in decision m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,285 Views
11 Pages

Comparative miRNA Analysis of Urine Extracellular Vesicles Isolated through Five Different Methods

  • Felix Royo,
  • Izzuddin Diwan,
  • Michael R. Tackett,
  • Patricia Zuñiga,
  • Pilar Sanchez-Mosquera,
  • Ana Loizaga-Iriarte,
  • Aitziber Ugalde-Olano,
  • Isabel Lacasa,
  • Amparo Perez and
  • Miguel Unda
  • + 2 authors

10 December 2016

Urine extracellular vesicles are a valuable low-invasive source of information, especially for the cells of the genitourinary tract. In the search for biomarkers, different techniques have been developed to isolate and characterize the cargo of these...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,235 Views
18 Pages

9 December 2016

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, and about 6% of the estimated cancer diagnoses this year will be melanoma cases. Melanomas are derived from transformation of the pigment producing cells of the skin, melanocytes. Earl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
8,502 Views
14 Pages

9 December 2016

The generation and release of membrane-enclosed packets from cancer cells, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), play important roles in propagating transformed phenotypes, including promoting cell survival. EVs mediate their effects by transferring t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,878 Views
15 Pages

A Comparison of Singlet Oxygen Explicit Dosimetry (SOED) and Singlet Oxygen Luminescence Dosimetry (SOLD) for Photofrin-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy

  • Michele M. Kim,
  • Rozhin Penjweini,
  • Nathan R. Gemmell,
  • Israel Veilleux,
  • Aongus McCarthy,
  • Gerald S. Buller,
  • Robert H. Hadfield,
  • Brian C. Wilson and
  • Timothy C. Zhu

6 December 2016

Accurate photodynamic therapy (PDT) dosimetry is critical for the use of PDT in the treatment of malignant and nonmalignant localized diseases. A singlet oxygen explicit dosimetry (SOED) model has been developed for in vivo purposes. It involves the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
10,977 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2016

Molecular and histopathological profiling have classified breast cancer into multiple sub-types empowering precision treatment. Although estrogen receptor (ER) and human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2) are the mainstay therapeutic targets in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
11,457 Views
14 Pages

Ligand Activation of TAM Family Receptors-Implications for Tumor Biology and Therapeutic Response

  • Viralkumar Davra,
  • Stanley G. Kimani,
  • David Calianese and
  • Raymond B. Birge

29 November 2016

The TAM family of receptors (i.e., Tyro3, Axl, and Mertk), and their ligands Growth arrest specific factor 6 (Gas6) and Protein S (Pros1) contribute to several oncogenic processes, such as cell survival, invasion, migration, chemo-resistance, and met...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
137 Citations
14,464 Views
21 Pages

Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy in Solid Tumors

  • Smitha Menon,
  • Sarah Shin and
  • Grace Dy

24 November 2016

Immunotherapy is heralded as one of the most important advances in oncology. Until recently, only limited immunotherapeutic options were available in selected immunogenic cancers like melanoma and renal cell carcinomas. Nowadays, there is an improved...

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