The majority, 80%–90%, of lung cancers are caused by tobacco smoking and thus are preventable. The biology of lung cancer results in symptoms after the disease is significantly advanced — and metastatic — and, as a consequence, 90% of patients die of their disease within 1–2 years....
Lung cancer is the most malignant tumor worldwide and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths with the highest mortality [1,2]. According to statistics, there are around over 1.8 million new cases and more than 1.6 million deaths resulted from lung cancer per year [2]. The insidious sym...
Elevated CEA levels were observed in colorectal, breast, lung, or pancreatic cancer patient. CEA is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily. It contains two types of immunoglobulin domains namely an N-terminal domain such as IgV-like variable domain and IgC2-like constant domain (Duffy et al...
craig2097over a year ago Hi, I must say that it is a pity she didn’t notice it before, while she could prevent spreading of the cancer by therapy or even if necessary removing the infected to prevent any new malignant occurrence. The metastatic activity of a tumor, increases with both ...
Progression of COPD is marked by increased serverity and duration of symptoms, until, during advanced stages, the patient experiences constant wheezing and shortness of breath, with a severe cough even while at rest. COPD advances either rapidly or slowly; rapid decliners, as shown in FIG. 1,...
According to the Global Cancer Observatory 2022 statistics [2], there were about 478,000 new cases of GC and 374,000 deaths in China alone, which made the prevention and control of GC a big challenge. Due to the lack of typical symptoms in early stage, most patients are diagnosed with ...
1.An abnormal condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, inflammation, environmental factors, or genetic defect, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs, symptoms, or both. ...
A large number of medical data indicate that smoking, radiation, and the environment may become risk factors for LUAD [5]. However, the early clinical symptoms of the patients are not obvious, and more than 75% of the patients are prone to local infiltration or even distant metastasis in ...
noyvi-NT infection (Section 2.1) and cancer patients who responded to IL-2 therapy (Section 6.5), antitumor immunity that is sufficient to eradicate tumors endures long after the tumors are gone. Several studies have also noted that the appearance of autoimmune symptoms, prior to diagnosis o...
These lncRNAs could greatly influence the progression of HCC. DLEU2 is a lncRNA with 15 exons [8]. It has been reported that DLEU2 serves as a tumor-suppressor gene in chronic lymphocytic leukemia [9,10] and non-small cell lung cancer [11]. On the contrary, some reports demonstrated ...