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Correction to: Prognostic Role of the Immunoscore for Patients with Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder Who Underwent Radical Cystectomy
In the original article, the word IMMUNOSCORE® was not displayed to reflect its trademark status. At every mention, IMMUNOSCORE® should be in all caps and with a registered trademark symbol.
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Prognostic Role of the Immunoscore for Patients with Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder Who Underwent Radical Cystectomy
Increasing evidence suggests that cancer progression is strongly influenced by the host immune response, which is represented by immune cell infiltrates. The T-lymphocyte-based Immunoscore is reported to be a ...
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Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Versus Upfront Esophagectomy in Clinical Stage II and III Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
The benefits of neoadjuvant chemoradiation (NCRT) compared to upfront esophagectomy (UE) in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is controversial. Our purpose was to determine whether clinical stages base...
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Use of early postoperative serum creatinine elevation to identify acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery
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A Nomogram for Predicting Overall Survival of Gastric Cancer Patients with Insufficient Lymph Nodes Examined
Insufficient number of examined lymph nodes (eLNs) was considered to increase significantly the risk of stage migration in gastric cancer patients. The aim of our study is to establish a nomogram predicting th...
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Notch1 Impairs Endothelial Progenitor Cell Bioactivity in Preeclampsia
Aberrant vasculature and endothelial dysfunction on both the maternal and the fetal side are thought to play a role in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia, a hypertensive complication during pregnancy. Endothelia...
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The application of thoracoscopy can be traced back to 100 years ago, when Dr. Jacobaeus first reported his experiences in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural effusions by thoracoscope in 1909 [1]. Most pati...
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Long-Term Outcomes After Thoracoscopic Resection of Stage I and II Thymoma: A Propensity-Matched Study
The use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in patients with thymoma remains controversial. We sought to evaluate the perioperative and oncological outcomes after VATS resection for stage I and II t...
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Erratum to: Survivin-mediated Therapeutic Efficacy of Gemcitabine through Glucose-regulated Protein 78 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Should Stage T2 Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Be Subclassified?
In patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), pathologic examination allows T2 tumors to be further subclassified according to whether the circular or longitudinal muscle layers are invaded. Ther...
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Risk of Thyroid Cancer in Patients with Thyroiditis: A Population-Based Cohort Study
The causative relationship between autoimmune thyroiditis and thyroid cancer remains a controversial issue. The aim of this population-based study was to investigate the risk of thyroid cancer in patients with...
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MicroRNA-200a and -200b Mediated Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Migration Through the Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition Markers
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an essential role in mediating gene expression in both normal and malignant cells. However, little is known about specific miRNAs during the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC...
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Percutaneous Ablative Therapies of Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Hepatectomy: Proposal of a Prognostic Model
Percutaneous ablative therapies (PAT) are valuable modalities for posthepatectomy recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (RHCC), but its impact on long-term outcome and prognosis prediction have not been well docu...
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Lymph Node Dissection after Chemoradiation in Esophageal Cancer: A Subgroup Analysis of Patients With and Without Pathological Response
Extensive lymph node dissection (LND) is beneficial in primarily resected esophageal cancer patients. Such benefit was believed to be seen in neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT)-treated patients, but evidence ...
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Knockdown Survivin Expression Reduces the Efficacy of Curcumin Treatment in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells
Survivin is a potential therapeutic target for cancer. Increased survivin expression promotes cell survival and therapeutic resistance. However, there is little information regarding whether the expression lev...
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Survivin-mediated Therapeutic Efficacy of Gemcitabine through Glucose-regulated Protein 78 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Survivin is an antiapoptotic molecule that is widely expressed in cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Survivin has become a general therapeutic target for cancers because of its selective overex...
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NNK Enhances Cell Migration through α7-nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Accompanied by Increased of Fibronectin Expression in Gastric Cancer
In this study, we intended to dissect the mechanism of 4-(Methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)-enhanced migration of gastric cancer. Smoking has been defined as a risk factor for gastric cancer. T...
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Silencing of Glucose-Regulated Protein 78 (GRP78) Enhances Cell Migration Through the Upregulation of Vimentin in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells
Glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78) plays an important role in embryonic development and cancer progression. However, there is little information regarding the regulation of GRP78 in hepatocellular carcinoma ...
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The Association Between Microenvironmental Reactive Oxygen Species and Embryo Development in Assisted Reproduction Technology Cycles
This study was designed to determine the relevance between the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in microenvironment (follicular fluid or culture media) and the embryo development in IVF/ICSI cycles. A t...
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Comparison of 6th and 7th AJCC TNM Staging Classification for Carcinoma of the Stomach in China
The 7th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor-node-metastasis (AJCC TNM) staging system was put into use recently. The study aimed to evaluate its predictive ability on survival and compare the d...
