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A combination of microbubbles (MBs) and ultrasound (US) is an emerging method for noninvasive and targeted enhancement of anti-cancer drug uptake. This method showed an increase local drug extravasation in tumor tissue while reducing the systemic adverse effects in various tumor models. The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach for Nab-paclitaxel delivery in a pancreatic tumor model. US and MBs of different types in combination with Nab-paclitaxel showed a loss in cell viability of pancreatic cancer cells in comparison with Nab-paclitaxel treatment alone in in vitro scenario. The in vivo data revealed that US and MBs in combination with Nab-paclitaxel induced a significant decrease in the tumor volume in a subcutaneous pancreatic adenocarcinoma mouse model in comparison to tumors treated with Nab-paclitaxel alone. The postmortem anatomopathological analyses of tumor tissues partially confirmed these results. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that MB-assisted US is a relevant technology to increase the therapeutic effectiveness of Nab-paclitaxel in a pancreatic cancer model.
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Comput Assist Surg (Abingdon)
December 2025
Department of General Surgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
To develop a DeepSurv model for predicting survival in pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients, evaluating the benefit of surgical versus non-surgical treatment across different stages, including stage IV subcategories. Clinical data were extracted from the SEER database (2000-2020). Patients were randomly divided into a model-building group and an experimental group.
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September 2025
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is defined by a myeloid-enriched microenvironment and has shown remarkable resistance to immune checkpoint blockade (e.g., PD-1 and CTLA-4).
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September 2025
Endocrinology, Diabetology and Medical Andrology Unit, IRCCS, Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
Bone metastases (BMs) are rare and late event in patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The aim of our study was to investigate clinical presentation and outcome of BMs in a large cohort of patients with NETs. A retrospective study was performed at two referral centers of Northern Italy (IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan and S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Biomed Opt
December 2025
University of Toronto, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Significance: Tumor tissues exhibit contrast with healthy tissue in circular degree of polarization (DOP) images via higher magnitude circular DOP values and increased helicity-flipping. This phenomenon may enable polarimetric tumor detection and surgical/procedural guidance applications.
Aim: Depolarization metrics have been shown to exhibit differential responses to healthy and cancer tissue, whereby tumor tissues tend to induce less depolarization; however, the understanding of this depolarization-based contrast remains limited.
Front Oncol
August 2025
Center of Basic Medical Research, Institute of Medical Innovation and Research, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
Introduction: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) is a highly aggressive malignancy characterized by a profoundly hypoxic tumor microenvironment, which fosters tumor progression and confers resistance to therapy The oncogenic regulator ID1has been implicated in PAAD malignancy, however, the mechanisms underlying hypoxia-induced stabilization of ID1 and the role of ubiquitin-mediated degradation remain poorly understood. Elucidating these pathways is essential for identifying novel therapeutic targets for PAAD.
Methods: In this study, we examined ID1 expression in PAAD tissues and cell lines using publicly available databases and in vitro models.