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    Alcohol and Smoking Cessation as Potential Modulators for Smoking-Associated Psoriasis Risk in Postmenopausal Women: The Women’s Health Initiative

    The association of alcohol with psoriasis has been inconsistent among studies.

    Wendy Li, Alfred A. Chan, Jiali Han in American Journal of Clinical Dermatology (2023)

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    Association between baseline insulin resistance and psoriasis incidence: the Women’s Health Initiative

    Small-scale studies offer conflicting evidence regarding the relationship/association between psoriasis and insulin resistance by HOMA-IR (homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance). The purpose of th...

    Alfred A. Chan, Houmin Li, Wendy Li, Kathy Pan in Archives of Dermatological Research (2022)

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    Tocilizumab overcomes chemotherapy resistance in mesenchymal stem-like breast cancer by negating autocrine IL-1A induction of IL-6

    Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients with mesenchymal stem-like (MSL) subtype have responded poorly to chemotherapy whereas patients with basal-like 1 (BL1) subtype achieved the best clinical response...

    Andrew W. Chung, Anthony J. Kozielski, Wei Qian, Jianying Zhou in npj Breast Cancer (2022)

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    Characterization of the microbiome of nipple aspirate fluid of breast cancer survivors

    The microbiome impacts human health and disease. Until recently, human breast tissue and milk were presumed to be sterile. Here, we investigated the presence of microbes in the nipple aspirate fluid (NAF) and ...

    Alfred A. Chan, Mina Bashir, Magali N. Rivas, Karen Duvall in Scientific Reports (2016)