This study validates the Compassionate Engagement and Action Scales for Self and Others (CEAS) for use with undergraduate engineering students in the United States. Compassion, defined as sensitivity to suffering in oneself and others coupled with a...
Carcinoembryonic antigen(CEA) is a routine marker employed for follow-up of colorectal tumors. We aimed to determine whether a CEA increase within the normal range can be linked to a risk of recurrence. From the period of 2006–2013 we selected...
There are differences in the incidence, clinical presentation, molecular pathogenesis, and outcome of colorectal cancer (CRC) based on tumor location. Emerging research suggests that the perioperative carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) ratio (post-op/pre...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide. A diagnosis at early stages with enhanced screening methods is vital as metastases and recurrences increase mortality. The aim of this study was to analyze the tumor markers CEA and C...
Air pollutants are substances in the air that have harmful effects on humans and the ecological environment. Although slight elevations in carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) are commonly observed in apparently healthy persons, potential associations betw...
CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen), which belongs to the acidic glycoproteins, is primarily produced during the fetal period. Following this stage, low levels of CEA are considered physiological, while elevated concentrations are associated with a range...
Background: This study aimed to analyze the relationship between the levels of tumor markers—specifically, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and Ca19-9 antigen—determined in both serum (sCEA and sCa19-9) and intraoperative peritoneal washing...
Background/Objectives: Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a rare but aggressive neuroendocrine malignancy arising from parafollicular C cells. Despite its low incidence, MTC has historically been estimated to account for 13.4% of thyroid cancer-relate...
The adoption of neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) has reshaped the therapeutic landscape, but response prediction remains challenging. This study investigates the interaction between pre-CCRT carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and post-CCRT...
A major barrier to the diagnosis and effective treatment of solid-tumor cancers is the difficulty in detection and visualization of tumor margins in primary and metastatic disease. The use of fluorescence can augment the surgeon’s ability to de...
Background and Objectives: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) accounts for 1–2% of all thyroid malignancies, and it originates from parafollicular “C” cells. Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a tumor marker, mainly for gastrointestinal malignancies. T...
The United States food system is highly centralized and heavily reliant on production and distribution methods that have significant negative environmental and social externalities. Soilless Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) has the potential...
The glycoproteins alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) have long been approved as biomarkers for diagnosing and monitoring tumors. International Reference Preparations (IRPs) have been around since 1975. Nevertheless, manufactur...
In colorectal cancer (CRC), 20–50% of patients relapse after curative-intent surgery with or without adjuvant therapy. We investigated the lead times and prognostic value of post-adjuvant (8 months from randomisation to adjuvant treatment) serum CEA,...
Background and Aim: Colorectal cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality, with growing interest in nanotechnology-driven immunotherapeutics. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) offer a promising platform due to their biocompatibility, functio...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks among the most common cancers worldwide. Surgical removal remains the best strategy for treatment of resectable tumors. An important part of caring for patients after surgery is monitoring for early detection of a possib...
Background and aim. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) offer promising potential as nanocarriers in vaccine development due to their biocompatibility, tunable surface properties and capacity to enhance antigen presentation. This study aimed to evaluate the i...
Serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is frequently monitored to detect colorectal cancer (CRC) recurrence after surgery. The clinical significance of transiently increased CEA during adjuvant chemotherapy is poorly understood. Serum CEA, CA19-9, CRP,...
Cultured epithelial autografts (CEA) with highly expanded mesh skin grafts were used for extensive adult burns covering more than 30% of the total body surface area. A prospective study on eight patients assessed subjective and objective findings up...
Background/Objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) frequently metastasizes to the peritoneum, significantly worsening patient prognosis. While serum tumor markers such as carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) are routinel...
Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) presents a formidable medical challenge, demanding innovative therapeutic strategies. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) natural killer (NK) cell therapy has emerged as a promising alternative to CAR T-cell therapy for cancer....
Rectal cancer patients with a complete response after neoadjuvant therapy can be monitored with a watch-and-wait strategy. However, regrowth rates indicate that identification of patients with a pathological complete response (pCR) remains challengin...
Background: In medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), lymph node metastases are often present at diagnosis and the extent of surgery is usually based upon pre-operative calcitonin and CEA levels as well as ultrasound findings. The aim of this study was to e...
Background: Finding dependable prognostic biomarkers for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is crucial. The albumin-to-carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) ratio (ACR), a measure of nutritional-inflammatory status and tumor load, has emerged as a promisin...
Background and Objectives: The introduction of total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) in the preoperative stage has been associated with improved oncological outcomes. However, TNT may lead to tissue fibrosis and be accompanied by increased difficulty durin...
Background: Regorafenib is a standard late-line treatment for refractory metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), yet clinical outcomes remain heterogeneous. Identifying accessible biomarkers to predict therapeutic benefit is crucial for balancing effica...
Cancer antigen 15-3 (CA15-3) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) are used alongside clinical and radiologic assessment in metastatic breast cancer, but progression may occur without a preceding increase in either marker. We examined whether this diffe...
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is an important broad-spectrum tumor marker. The quantitative detection of a low concentration of CEA has important medical significance. In this study, three-dimensional porous graphene-oxide-supported platinum metal n...
Background and Objectives: HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) represents a biologically distinct and clinically aggressive subtype associated with poor response to standard first-line chemotherapy. Reliable, low-cost prognostic biomark...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) belongs to the most common cancers. The liver is a predominant site of CRC dissemination. Novel biomarkers for predicting the survival of CRC patients with liver metastases (CLM) undergoing metastasectomy are needed. We examin...
Time-gated Förster resonance energy transfer (TG-FRET) between Tb complexes and luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) provides highly advantageous photophysical properties for multiplexed biosensing. Multiplexed Tb-to-QD FRET immunoassays...
This Special Issue contains selected papers from works presented at the 8th EASN–CEAS (European Aeronautics Science Network–Council of European Aerospace Societies) Workshop on Manufacturing for Growth and Innovation, which was held in Gl...
Two microsensors obtained by the physical immobilization of 5,10,15,20-tetraphenyl-21H,23H-porphine (TPP) and 5,10,15,20-tetrakis (pentafluorophenyl chloride)-21H,23H-iron (III) porphyrin (Fe(TPFPP)Cl) in carbon nanopowder decorated with gold nanopar...
Metabolic abnormalities are well-known risk factors for many cancers, even though no clearly established link with pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (PanNENs) has yet been investigated. This research aimed to assess the serum levels of leptin, chro...
Two-needle 3D stochastic microsensors based on boron- and nitrogen-decorated gra-phenes, modified with N-(2-mercapto-1H-benzo[d]imidazole-5-yl), were designed and used for the molecular recognition and quantification of CA 72-4, CA 19-9, CEA and CA 1...
A dual-mode lab-on-paper device based on BiVO4/FeOOH nanocomposites as an efficient generating photoelectrochemical (PEC)/colorimetric signal reporter has been successfully constructed by integration of the lab-on-paper sensing platform and PEC/color...
Tumor-specific targeting with fluorescent probes can enhance contrast for identification of cancer during surgical resection and visualize otherwise invisible tumor margins. Nanobodies are the smallest naturally-occurring antigen-binding molecules wi...
The adoption of cloud-based building information modelling (Cloud-BIM) presents a complex landscape of potential benefits and challenges for architectural design enterprises in China. While similar opportunities and obstacles exist globally, the uniq...
Proximal sensors in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) are used to monitor plant growth, yield, and water consumption with non-destructive technologies. Rapid and continuous monitoring of environmental and crop parameters may be used to develop...
Sensitive trace gas detection plays an important role in current challenges occurring in areas such as industrial process control and environmental monitoring. In particular, for medical breath analysis and for the detection of illegal substances, e....
Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is characterized by mutations in p53 and the Wnt signaling pathway, and immunotherapy has shown limited efficacy in microsatellite-stable CRC. Here, CEABP1, a binding protein for the CRC biomarker carcinoembryonic antigen (...
The qualitative and quantitative analysis to trace gas in exhaled human breath has become a promising technique in biomedical applications such as disease diagnosis and health status monitoring. This paper describes an application of a high spectral...
A trace acetylene (C2H2) detection system was demonstrated using the cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (CEAS) technique and a near-infrared distributed feedback (NIR-DFB) laser. A Fabry–Perot (F–P) cavity with an effective optical p...
Magnetic polymeric microspheres are pivotal solid-phase carriers in chemiluminescence enzyme immunoassays (CLEIA). However, their practical clinical application is frequently hindered by non-specific adsorption, irreversible aggregation, and the intr...
Background/Objectives: Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a cell-surface glycoprotein serving as a drug target, diagnostic marker, and serum marker for cancer monitoring. However, prevalence data on CEA expression in cancer tissues vary considerably....
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is an oncofoetal cell-surface glycoprotein that serves as an important tumor marker for colorectal and some other carcinomas. In this work, a CEA immunoassay using a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor has been de...
Background: No potential tumour markers have been validated for prognosis in endometrial cancer. However, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is one of the most widely used tumour markers in various types of cancer. Although CEA expression in endometrial...
Background/Objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. This study evaluates the predictive value of Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA) in identifying CRC recurrence following surgical resect...
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) are established prognostic biomarkers for patients with gastric cancer. However, their potential as predictive markers for neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) efficacy has not been ful...
Background and Objectives: Serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a widely used biomarker in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, its association with oncogenic driver alterations and prognostic significance across molecular subtypes in meta...
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