Vol 7, Supplement 3 (July 30, 2019): Annals of Translational Medicine

Editorial Commentary

Immunotherapy for head and neck cancer: where are we now and where are we going?
Joshua M. Bauml, Charu Aggarwal, Roger B. Cohen
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Combining immunotherapy and epidermal growth factor receptor kinase inhibitors: worth the risk?
Hira Latif, Stephen V. Liu
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Current landscape of cytoreductive nephrectomy: who, when, and why?
Jiping Zeng, Alfredo Harb-De la Rosa, Juan Chipollini
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New insights into cordycepin production in Cordyceps militaris and applications
Sunita Chamyuang, Amorn Owatworakit, Yoichi Honda
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A novel macrophage subtype directs hematopoietic stem cell homing and retention
Marcin Wysoczynski, Joseph B. Moore IV, Shizuka Uchida
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Brain metastases in EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer: the way to the sanctuary becomes less winding
Antonio Passaro, Letizia Gianoncelli, Valeria Stati, Filippo de Marinis
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Post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) animal model to understand pathophysiology of osteoarthritis
Quante Singleton, Santul Bapat, Sadanand Fulzele
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Renal function after kidney surgery: “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”
John M. DiBianco, Patrick T. Gomella, Mark W. Ball
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Reactive astrocytes foster brain metastases via STAT3 signaling
Braden C. McFarland, Etty N. Benveniste
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Depth of invasion for prognostic stratification in oral cavity cancer: do we need further validation?
Cesare Piazza, Lorenzo Bresciani, Lorenzo Giannini
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Coupled biosynthesis of cordycepin and pentostatin in Cordyceps militaris: implications for fungal biology and medicinal natural products
Peter A. D. Wellham, Dong-Hyun Kim, Matthias Brock, Cornelia H. de Moor
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Asymmetric dimethylarginine, erythropoietin resistance, and anemia in CKD
Tammy L. Sirich, Glenn M. Chertow
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Editorial commentary: the multiligament injured knee: current controversies and strategies for improving outcomes
Adnan Saithna
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The role of acute kidney injury duration in clinical practice
Chyi-Sheng Khor, Wei-Jie Wang
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Risk reduction in kidney surgery
Martin Marszalek
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Profiling changes in metabolism and the immune microenvironment in lung tumorigenesis
Di Zhang, Ana S. Leal, Fawzi Abu Rous, Karen T. Liby
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Revisiting the role of lymph node dissection in renal cell carcinoma
Alice Yu, Dimitar V. Zlatev, Michael L. Blute Sr
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Lack of evidence regarding bone metastases of genitourinary cancers: interventions by surgery, radiotherapy, and bone-targeted systemic therapy
Makito Miyake, Takuya Owari, Kiyohide Fujimoto
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An emerging regulatory network of NHEJ via DYNLL1-mediated 53BP1 redistribution
Lykourgos-Panagiotis Zalmas, Wei-Ting Lu, Nnennaya Kanu
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The role of laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy—how take care of patient security?
Trond A. Buanes
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Pembrolizumab plus ipilimumab or pegylated interferon alfa-2b for patients with melanoma or renal cell carcinoma: take new drugs but keep the old?
Matthew Zibelman, Elizabeth R. Plimack
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Non-small cell lung cancer 2 cm or less: robotic segmentectomy sets the gold standard against non-surgical therapy
Dana Ferrari-Light, Robert J. Cerfolio
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State of the art in multiligament knee injuries: from diagnosis to treatment
Marcel Faraco Sobrado
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Stereotactic body radiation therapy for oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma: improving outcomes in an otherwise radioresistant malignancy
Thomas H. Beckham, Brandon S. Imber, Charles B. Simone II
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Smoking favours hepatocellular carcinoma
Maria Guarino, Jean-François Dufour
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Predicting mortality after postcardiotomy venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Fausto Biancari, Angelo M. Dell’Aquila, Giovanni Mariscalco
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Comment on an external validation of the 8th edition of the TNM classification for lung cancer staging in patients treated with chemoradiation
Ramón Palmero, Arturo Navarro-Martin, Ernest Nadal
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors for esophageal cancer: are we moving in the right direction?
Alexander G. Raufi, Khaldoun Almhanna
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TNM in non-small cell lung cancer: a staging system for all oncologists or just for surgeons?
David Ball
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Improving patient selection for adjuvant therapy in high-risk renal cell carcinoma
Dylan M. Buller, Benjamin T. Ristau
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Stereotactic body radiation therapy could improve disease control in oligometastatic patients with renal cell carcinoma: do we need more evidence?
Linda Agolli
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Role of stereotactic body radiation therapy for the management of renal cell carcinoma: tailoring treatment in the era of the “embarrassment of riches”
Sebastiano Buti, Alessandro Leonetti, Elisabetta Lattanzi, Nunziata D’Abbiero, Melissa Bersanelli
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Lobar or sublobar resections are safe procedures for management of early lung cancer
Alfonso Fiorelli, Immacolata Mauro, Gaetano Cicchitto, Aldo Prencipe, Mario Polverino, Vincenzo Giuseppe Di Crescenzo, Mario Santini
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Microfracture for cartilage repair in the knee: current concepts and limitations of systematic reviews
Sang Jun Song, Cheol Hee Park
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‘RNA circles of influence’ in Kaposi sarcoma
Dimitrios Tsitsipatis, Myriam Gorospe
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Cellular therapy for autism spectrum disorder: a step forward to the optimal treatments
Dario Siniscalco, Nicola Antonucci
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Reconsider minimally invasive surgery for early cervical cancer
Yi Zhang, Shuguang Chen
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Key players of neuroendocrine differentiation in prostate cancer
Matteo Santoni, Gaetano Aurilio, Alessandro Maccioni, Franco Nolè, Nicola Battelli
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Urologic and interventional radiology treatment of renal cell carcinomas—similarities and differences
Diep Nguyen, Eric vanSonnenberg, Paul Kang, Peter R. Mueller
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Is the adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy effective for treatment of knee osteoarthritis?
Ilaria Roato, Riccardo Ferracini
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Antioxidant therapy in chronic pancreatitis—promises and pitfalls
Kwang Hyun Ko, Jeong Min An, Mi Seo Son, Jae Bock Chung, Ki Baik Hahm
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VCAM-1+ macrophages usher hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell to vascular niche “hotspots”
Yahui Grace Chiu, Moh’d Khushman
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Vitamin C’s essential role in DNA and histone demethylation and a preclinical rationale for its therapeutic high-dose potential in renal cell carcinoma
Ching-Hui Huang, Chia-Chu Chang
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Immunotherapy for mucosal melanoma
Kelley Sherling, Brittany Case
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Salvage procedures for chronic gastric leaks after sleeve gastrectomy: the role of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y fistulo-jejunostomy
Panagiotis Lainas, Naim Schoucair, Carmelisa Dammaro, Ibrahim Dagher
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Comment for “nomogram establishment for surgery-related complications in partial nephrectomy”
Katsumi Shigemura, Shian-Ying Sung, Kuan-Cho Chen, Masato Fujisawa
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Looking beyond cancer for cabozantinib-induced cardiotoxicity: evidence of absence or absence of evidence?
Eugenia Y. Lee, Andrew T. Yan
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A 7.0–7.7% value for glycated haemoglobin is better than a <7% value as an appropriate target for patient-centered drug treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus
José Pedro L. Nunes, Joseph P. DeMarco
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Behaviorally associated changes in neuroconnectivity following autologous umbilical cord blood infusion in young children with autism spectrum disorder
Richard E. Frye
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Arterial erectile dysfunction is an early sign of vascular damage: the importance for the prevention of cardiovascular health
Sandro La Vignera, Rosita A. Condorelli, Rossella Cannarella, Filippo Giacone, Aldo E. Calogero
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The effect of centralization of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair procedures on perioperative outcomes
Kosmas I. Paraskevas
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Spread through air spaces-positive T1 lung adenocarcinoma: is lobectomy associated with better outcomes than sublobar resection?
Kathleen Weiss, Matthew M. Rochefort
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Extended follow-up on KEYNOTE-024 suggests significant survival benefit for pembrolizumab in patients with PD-L1 ≥50%, but unanswered questions remain
Jose M. Pacheco, Dexiang Gao, D. Ross Camidge
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Progress in interferon-gamma release assay development and applications: an unfolding story of translational research
Ajit Lalvani, Hilary S. Whitworth
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Testing two (of several) intravenous iron dosing strategies in hemodialysis
Margaret K. Yu, Glenn M. Chertow
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New promising circulating RNA biomarkers for early diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma
Francisco J. Enguita
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Fluoxetine in stroke (FOCUS) trial—reasons to be cheerful about antidepressants in stroke?
Terence J. Quinn
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Cardiovascular and renal protection with sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors: new paradigm in type 2 diabetes management…and potentially beyond
André J. Scheen
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Serum neurofilament light chain rate of change in Alzheimer’s disease: potentials applications and notes of caution
Federico Massa, Riccardo Meli, Silvia Morbelli, Flavio Nobili, Matteo Pardini
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Nephrometry score correlated with tumor proliferative activity inT1 clear cell renal cell carcinoma—the tiger in the tall grasses versus the cat in plain sight
Ziting Wang, Ho Yee Tiong
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New insights in predictive determinants of the tumor immune microenvironment for immune checkpoint inhibition: a never ending story?
Markus Eckstein, Shilpa Gupta
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Post-operative surveillance in kidney cancer
Ofer Gofrit, Marina Orevi
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Another one in the chamber: cabozantinib for patients with metastatic non clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Di Nunno, Francesco Massari, Veronica Mollica, Alessia Cimadamore, Matteo Santoni, Liang Cheng, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Marina Scarpelli, Rodolfo Montironi
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Personalized medicine in breast cancer: a step forward
Alejandro Martin Sanchez, Gianluca Franceschini, Daniela Terribile, Sabatino D’Archi, Lorenzo Scardina, Riccardo Masetti
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Renal cell carcinoma response to checkpoint inhibitors may be predicted by senescence activity in tumor microenvironment
Javier González, Gaetano Ciancio
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Pembrolizumab monotherapy for PD-L1 ≥50% non-small cell lung cancer, undisputed first choice?
Willemijn S. M. E. Theelen, Paul Baas
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A critical evaluation of the role of robotic-assisted surgery in complex pediatric urology cases
Patricio Gargollo
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Prevention of cognitive decline in old age—varying effects of interventions in different populations
Chengxuan Qiu, Gunilla Johansson, Feiqi Zhu, Miia Kivipelto, Bengt Winblad
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Predicting biological behaviour of newly diagnosed renal masses: a possible role of cell proliferation biomarkers?
Riccardo Mastroianni, Aldo Brassetti, Manuela Costantini, Giuseppe Simone
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Cryo-electron microscopy reveals informative details of GABAA receptor structural pharmacology: implications for drug discovery
Richard W. Olsen, A. Kerstin Lindemeyer, Martin Wallner, Xiaorun Li, Kevin W. Huynh, Z. Hong Zhou
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Role of cytoreductive nephrectomy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients with tumor thrombus: does it change with development of systemic therapy?
Fumitaka Koga
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Do hypofraction and large breast size reciprocally fit in breast cancer radiotherapy?
Pierfrancesco Franco, Sara Bartoncini, Stefania Martini, Giuseppe Carlo Iorio, Umberto Ricardi
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Long-term survival following thoracoscopic versus open lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer
Hussein Elkhayat, Diego Gonzalez Rivas
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Turning stem cells homing potential into cancer specific drug delivery machines
Nedime Serakinci, Huseyin Cagsin
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Is nodal disease burden relevant in patients with renal cell carcinoma and lymph node invasion?
Francisco Rodriguez-Covarrubias
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68Ga-dotatoc vs. 18F-FDG vs. radiolabelled PSMA PET/CT in renal cancer patients
Laura Evangelista, Fabio Zattoni, Pierpaolo Alongi
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Parallels between antibody-mediated rejection and ischemic kidney injury with respect to B cell activation
Stuart J. Knechtle, Jean Kwun
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FOCUS trial: results, potentialities and limits
Luca Saba, Antonella Balestrieri, Alessandra Serra, Raimondo Garau, Carola Politi, Pierleone Lucatelli, Alessandro Murgia, Jasjit S. Suri, Lorenzo Mannelli
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Novel therapeutic approaches for pancreatic cancer by combined targeting of RAF→MEK→ERK signaling and autophagy survival response
Faustino Mollinedo, Consuelo Gajate
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Outcome of safety and efficacy of allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cell derived from umbilical cord for the treatment of osteoarthritis in a randomized blinded placebo-controlled trial
Kiran Shah, Huseyin Sumer
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Breakthroughs and challenges in the management of tropomyosin receptor kinase fusion-positive tumors
Hirva Mamdani, Shadia I. Jalal
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Pluripotential stem cells as replacement therapy in degenerative diseases of the eye
Colin J. Barnstable
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Should we perform peripheral laser iridotomy in primary angle closure suspects: implications of the ZAP trial?
Vivek Gupta, Tanuj Dada
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Better screened than sorry!—an informed panel of inherited DNA repair gene variants for prostate cancer screening and prognostication
Giulia Fracassi, Francesca Lorenzin, Francesca Demichelis
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