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Anticipating unplanned hospital readmission episodes is a safety and medico-economic issue. We compared statistics (Logistic Regression) and machine learning algorithms (Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, and Neural Network) for predicting the risk of all-cause, 30-day hospital readmission using data from the clinical data warehouse of Rennes and from other sources.

Oligometastatic prostate cancer (PCa) is an intense area of research thanks to the development of novel PET tracers such as 18F-choline or 68Ga-PSMA. Several retrospective studies in patients with hormone-sensitive oligorecurrent PCa (usually up to 5 metastases with a controlled primary tumor)…

Reconstructing large bone defects caused by severe trauma or resection of tumors remains a challenge for surgeons. A fibula free flap and its vascularized bed can be transplanted to the reconstruction site to achieve healing. However, this technique adds morbidity, and requires microsurgery and sculpting of the bone tissue to adapt the graft to both the vasculature and the anatomy of the defect.

This prospective study evaluated the imaging performance of a novel pretargeting immunologic PET (immuno-PET) method in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)-positive metastatic breast cancer, compared with CT…

In this paper, we propose a new approach for performing privacy-preserving genome-wide association study (GWAS) in cloud environments. This method allows a Genomic Research Unit (GRU) who possesses genetic variants of diseased individuals (cases) to compare his/her data against genetic variants of healthy individuals (controls) from a Genomic Research Center (GRC).

Over the past two decades, quantitative proteomics has emerged as an important tool for deciphering the complex molecular events involved in cancers. The number of references involving studies on the cancer metastatic process has doubled since 2010, while the last 5 years have seen the development of novel technologies combining deep proteome coverage capabilities with quantitative consistency and accuracy.

The imbalance between BCL-2 homologues and pro-death counterparts frequently noted in cancer cells endows them with a cell autonomous survival advantage. To eradicate ectopic cells, inhibitors of these homologues (BH3 mimetics) were developed to trigger, during anticancer treatment, full activation of the canonical mitochondrial apoptotic pathway and related caspases.

Background: Targeted therapies such as BRAF and MEK inhibitors and immunotherapies have been made available to treat melanoma.

Objectives: To provide an overview of the management of the French Stage III melanoma population after complete lymph node resection prior to new adjuvant therapies.

The human HEPC-CB.1 cell line with many characteristics of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) was tested for its proangiogenic properties as a potentially therapeutic compound. HEPC-CB.1 cells’ potential to differentiate into endothelial cells was revealed after treating the cells with a mixture of ATRA, cAMP and VEGF, as shown by the reduced expression levels of CD133, CD271 and CD90 antigens, augmentation of CD146 and CD31, and a decrease in cell clonogenicity.