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音量 3, 問題 1 (2018)

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TRAF3 and CYLD Gene Defects in HPV-Associated Head and Neck Cancer: Biomarker of Response and Indicator of Targets for New Therapies

Natalia Issaeva, Barbara Burtness and Wendell G. Yarbrough*

The incidence of HPV-associated (HPV+) Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas (HNSCC) has dramatically increased over the last 2 decades and continues to rise. These tumors are distinct from tobacco-associated HNSCC and have improved response to therapy and survival. Despite molecular, demographic and response differences between HPV+ and HPV-negative tumors, they are each treated with aggressive multi-modality therapy that can result in lifelong morbidity. To minimize long term morbidity, there are ongoing efforts to de-escalate therapy for HPV + HNSCC, but tools for selection of appropriate low risk patients has been limited without available molecular markers of tumor response. In addition, more targeted and less morbid therapies for HPV+ are not currently available. Recently, inactivating defects of the TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 3 (TRAF3) and cylindromatosis (CYLD) genes were identified in approximately 30% of HPV+ HNSCC and associated with improved survival, possibly accounting for the entire survival advantage of HPV association in HNSCC. In addition, gene expression analysis revealed that loss of TRAF3/CYLD was associated with increased NF-kB and decreased type I interferon signaling, suggesting that reversing these changes in signaling could offer new treatment strategies. Here we review the potential to use TRAF3/CYLD status of HPV+ HNSCC as a marker of selection for therapeutic de-escalation, or as an indication of new therapies that could be used to target this subset of tumors.

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Kaposi Sarcoma: HHV-8 is the Suspected Cause

Irina Kuznetsov*

Kaposi sarcoma is an unusual tumour that is known as after the dermatologist who first described it in 1872, Dr. Moritz Kaposi. It has numerous types, the most common of that is associated with AIDS. All training of Kaposi sarcoma is due to a form of Herpes virus, Kaposi Sarcoma Herpes Virus (KSHV) [1].
Most of the people inflamed with KSHV do no longer growth Kaposi sarcoma until their immunity is suppressed. The incidence of Kaposi sarcoma extended 20-fold in some unspecified time in the future of the AIDS epidemic within the early Nineties and this type of cancer remains visible most customarily in people with HIV/AIDS, as well as in humans taking immunosuppressant drug treatments [1].
Kaposi sarcoma is characterised via the boom of amazing tissue below the skin, in the lining of the mouth, nostril, and throat or in unique organs. Those patches are typically pink or purple in coloration and may bleed (which can motive issues within the occasion that they expand inside the digestive tract or lungs). Notwithstanding the reality that commonly asymptomatic, Kaposi sarcoma may be painful in a few cases [1].
Clinical statistics these days has a page committed to specific styles of sarcoma, which also have an impact on soft tissues [1].

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To Fear is One Thing, To Let Fear Grab You by the Tail and Swing You Around is Another. Cancer Statistic Facts: Acute Lymphocytic Leukaemia (ALL)

Elaine Ohsumi*

Disease begins when cells in the body start to become out of control. Cells in about any piece of the body can progress toward becoming growth, and can spread to different regions of the body. To take in more about how tumours begin and spread. Acute Lymphocytic Leukaemia (ALL), likewise called acute lymphoblastic Leukaemia, is a growth that begins from the early form of white platelets called lymphocytes in the bone marrow (the delicate internal piece of the bones, where fresh recruit’s cells are made).
Leukaemia cells for the most part attack the blood decently fast. They would then be able to spread to different parts of the body, including the lymph hubs, liver, spleen, focal sensory system (cerebrum and spinal line), and testicles (in guys). Different sorts of growth likewise can begin in these organs and after that spread deep down marrow, however these tumours are not Leukaemia.
The expression "Acute" implies that the Leukaemia can advance rapidly, and if not treated, would presumably be lethal inside a couple of months. Lymphocytic means it creates from ahead of schedule (youthful) types of lymphocytes, a kind of white platelet. This is unique in relation to intense myeloid Leukaemia (AML), which creates in other platelet sorts found in the bone marrow.
Different sorts of growth that begin in lymphocytes are known as lymphomas (non-Hodgkin lymphoma or Hodgkin malady). The primary contrast between these sorts of diseases is that Leukaemia’s like ALL for the most part influences the bone marrow and the blood, and may spread to different spots, while lymphomas predominantly influence the lymph hubs or different organs yet may include the bone marrow. Once in a while malignant lymphocytes are found in both the bone marrow and lymph hubs when the growth is first analysed, which can make it difficult to discern whether the tumour is Leukaemia or lymphoma. In the event that over 25% of the bone marrow is supplanted by carcinogenic lymphocytes, the ailment is normally considered Leukaemia. The span of lymph hubs is additionally vital. The greater they are, the more probable the malady will be viewed as a lymphoma. For more data on lymphomas, see Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Hodgkin Disease.
There are really many sorts of Leukaemia. They contrast in view of what sorts of cells they begin in, how rapidly they develop, which individuals they influence, and how they are dealt.

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