Study objective To review our experience in treatment of complicated parapneumonic
effusion and pleural empyema by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) Design …

Rationale: Cancer stem cell (CSC) theory has drawn much attention, with evidence
supporting the contribution of stem cells to tumor initiation, relapse, and therapy resistance …

Among patients with adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia, we noted that patients with
higher preoperative serum albumin levels appeared to survive longer than patients with …

Background Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) possess cell dedifferentiation
characteristics, carry out activities connate to those of cancer stem cells (CSCs) and are …

Scope Tumor‐associated macrophages (TAM s) have been shown to promote metastasis
and malignancy. Pterostilbene, a natural stilbene isolated from blueberries, has been …

Dihydrodiol dehydrogenase (DDH) is a member of the aldo‐keto reductases superfamily
(AKR1C1–AKR1C4), which plays central roles in the metabolism of steroid hormone …

BACKGROUND An association between thymoma and second malignancy has been
suggested but has not been validated. Whether the relation is due to treatment or to other …

Background: Recently, we demonstrated that Astragalus polysaccharide (PG2), the active
ingredient in dried roots of astragalus membranaceus, ameliorates cancer symptom clusters …

Despite 25 years of research in lung transplantation, little progress has been made in
methods for improving lung preservation. To evaluate many factors that may affect lung …

The decrease in the copy number of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in cancer tissues might be
associated with a decrease in oxidative mtDNA damage to achieve cancer immortalization …