High-grade serous ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal malignancies in women. Despite recent advances in surgical and pharmaceutical therapies, survival rates remain poor. A major impediment in management of this disease, that continues to contribute to poor overall survival rates, is resistance to standard carboplatin-paclitaxel combination chemotherapies. In addition to tumor cell intrinsic mechanisms leading to drug resistance, there is increasing awareness of the crucial role of the tumor microenvironment in mediating natural immune defense mechanisms and selective pressures that appear to facilitate chemotherapy sensitivity. We provide an overview of some of the promising new genetic and immunological biomarkers in ovarian cancer and discuss their biology and their likely clinical utility in future ovarian cancer management.
These findings from a Brazilian cohort of patients with ovarian cancer reinforce the association of high STAT1 expression with better response to chemotherapy, providing additional validation of this protein as both a prognostic and predictive biomarker. Collectively, these results together with other recently published studies increase the feasibility of using the STAT1 pathway for the development of novel immunomodulator drugs that could enhance response to treatment.
The mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are a group of lysosomal storage disorders caused
by 11 enzyme deficiencies, classified into seven types. Data on the birth
prevalence of each MPS type are available for only a few countries, and the
totality of cases may be underestimated. To determine the epidemiological
profile of MPS in each Brazilian region, we analyzed data collected between 1982
and 2019 by a national reference laboratory and identified 1,652 patients. Using
data between 1994 and 2018, the birth prevalence (by 100,000 live births) for
MPS was 1.57. MPS II was the most common type of MPS in Brazil, and its birth
prevalence was 0.48 (0.94 considering only male births). Regarding the number of
cases per region, MPS II was the most frequent in the North and Center-West
(followed by MPS VI), and also in the Southeast (followed by MPS I); MPS I and
MPS II were the most common types in the South; and MPS VI was the most common
in the Northeast (followed by MPS II). The differences observed in the relative
frequencies of MPS types across Brazilian regions are likely linked to founder
effect, endogamy, and consanguinity, but other factors may be present and need
further investigation.
INTRODUCÃO: Estudo retrospectivo com o objetivo de avaliar a prevalência e fatores associados à soropositividade para o HTLV-1/2, no período de 1995 a 2008, no Hemocentro Regional de Uberaba e descrever os doadores soropositivos quanto ao gênero, idade, estado civil, cor de pele e procedência. MÉTODOS: Foram realizados análise estatística descritiva, testes qui-quadrado e odds ratio para comparação de proporções e gráfico de dispersão com coeficiente de correlação linear. RESULTADOS: Dentre x doadores testados, foi encontrada a prevalência de sorologia positiva para o HTLV de 0,02% e indeterminada de 0,09%. Houve uma redução significativa da sorologia positiva para HTLV, no período de 2002 a 2008, em comparação ao período de 1995 a 2001. Dentre os soropositivos, observou predomínio significante no gênero feminino. CONCLUSÕES: Imputamos a queda gradativa de soropositividade no período à exclusão permanente dos doadores de repetição soropositivos e ao aprimoramento dos métodos de triagem clínica e dos testes sorológicos ao longo dos anos com reflexos positivos na segurança transfusional.
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