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    DNA as the main target in radiotherapy—a historical overview from first isolation to anti-tumour immune response

    DNA damage is one of the foremost mechanisms of irradiation at the biological level. After the first isolation of DNA by Friedrich Miescher in the 19th century, the structure of DNA was described by Watson and...

    Benjamin Frey, Kerstin Borgmann, Tina Jost in Strahlentherapie und Onkologie (2023)

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    Tumor suppressor miR-218 directly targets epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression in triple-negative breast cancer, sensitizing cells to irradiation

    MicroRNA-218 (miR-218) is a key regulator of numerous processes relevant to tumor progression. In the present study, we aimed to characterize the relationship between miR-218 and the Epidermal Growth Factor Re...

    Franz-Josef Wischmann, Fabian M. Troschel in Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical On… (2023)

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    Characterization and dynamics of the soluble immunological microenvironment in melanoma patients undergoing radiotherapy

    Malignant melanoma constitutes an aggressive tumor of the skin, the pathogenesis of which is influenced by immunological processes. In this context, the influence of radiotherapy (RT) on inflammatory markers h...

    Michael Oertel, Katrin Borrmann, Andrea Baehr, Hans Theodor Eich in Radiation Oncology (2022)

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    Knockdown of the prognostic cancer stem cell marker Musashi-1 decreases radio-resistance while enhancing apoptosis in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer cells via p21WAF1/CIP1

    While the stem cell marker Musashi-1 (MSI-1) has been identified as a key player in a wide array of malignancies, few findings exist on its prognostic relevance and relevance for cancer cell death and therapy ...

    Fabian M. Troschel, Heike Palenta in Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical On… (2021)

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    Tumor microenvironmental plasmacytoid dendritic cells contribute to breast cancer lymph node metastasis via CXCR4/SDF-1 axis

    Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDCs) infiltration into breast cancer tissues is associated with poor prognosis. Also, CXCR4 shows compelling evidences to be exploited by cancer cells to migrate to distant sites...

    Ramy Gadalla, Hebatallah Hassan in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2019)

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    Syndecan-1 is a novel molecular marker for triple negative inflammatory breast cancer and modulates the cancer stem cell phenotype via the IL-6/STAT3, Notch and EGFR signaling pathways

    Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer, is characterized by cancer stem cell (CSC) phenotype. Due to a lack of targeted therapies, the identification of molecular mar...

    Sherif Abdelaziz Ibrahim, Ramy Gadalla, Eslam A. El-Ghonaimy in Molecular Cancer (2017)

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    Stereotactic body radiotherapy for liver tumors

    This report of the Working Group on Stereotactic Radiotherapy of the German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO) aims to provide a practical guideline for safe and effective stereotactic body radiotherapy (SB...

    PD Dr. Florian Sterzing, Thomas B. Brunner, Iris Ernst in Strahlentherapie und Onkologie (2014)

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    Influence of secreted frizzled receptor protein 1 (SFRP1) on neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple negative breast cancer does not rely on WNT signaling

    Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is characterized by lack of expression of both estrogen and progesterone receptor as well as lack of overexpression or amplification of HER2. Despite an increased probabili...

    Christof Bernemann, Carolin Hülsewig, Christian Ruckert, Sarah Schäfer in Molecular Cancer (2014)

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    Association of telomerase activity with radio- and chemosensitivity of neuroblastomas

    Telomerase activity compensates shortening of telomeres during cell division and enables cancer cells to escape senescent processes. It is also supposed, that telomerase is associated with radio- and chemoresi...

    Simone Wesbuer, Claudia Lanvers-Kaminsky, Ines Duran-Seuberth in Radiation Oncology (2010)

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    Selective regain of egfr gene copies in CD44+/CD24-/lowbreast cancer cellular model MDA-MB-468

    Increased transcription of oncogenes like the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is frequently caused by amplification of the whole gene or at least of regulatory sequences. Aim of this study was to pinpo...

    Konstantin Agelopoulos, Burkhard Greve, Hartmut Schmidt, Heike Pospisil in BMC Cancer (2010)

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    Multicentric investigation of ionising radiation-induced cell death as a predictive parameter of individual radiosensitivity

    In the present study, the predictive value of ionising radiation (IR)-induced cell death was tested in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) and their corresponding Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid ...

    Burkhard Greve, Kristin Dreffke, Astrid Rickinger, Stefan Könemann in Apoptosis (2009)