Advanced Centre for Treatment Research & Education in Cancer

Science Sparks @ ACTREC
27^th January 2025	Vol. No. 14 ; Issue No.666

Publications

1. Murthy V, Marvaso G, Jereczek-Fossa BA, Thoma SA, Vogel M, Schmidt-Hegemann NS, Shelan M, Siva S, Hoelscher T, Kishan AU, Peeken JC, Gillessen S, Guckenberger M, Herrmann K, Fendler WP, Zilli T, Spohn SKB, Zamboglou C (2025). The Co-IMPACT consortium: Integrating prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography and radiotherapy in prostate cancer care. European Urology.

2. Guévelou JL, Sargos P, Ost P, Alongi F, Arcangeli S, Berlin A, Blanchard P, Bruynzeel A, Chapet O, Dal Pra A, Dess RT, Guckenberger M, Loblaw A, Kishan AU, Jereczek-Fossa B, Pasquier D, Shelan M, Siva S, Tree AC, Zamboglou C, Supiot S, Murthy V, Zilli T (2025). Urethra-sparing prostate cancer radiotherapy: Current practices and future insights from an international survey. Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology. 51:100907.

3. Gokarn A, Reddy L, Hiregoudar S, Poojary M, Parab S, Punatar S, Chichra A, Mirgh S, Jindal N, Nayak L, Garg K, Saha S, Ojha S, Tembhare P, Rajpal S, Chatterjee G, Patkar N, Kannan S, Pawar A, Bagal B, Subramanian PG, Khattry N (2025). A comparison of mobilization regimens used in Hodgkin lymphoma and factors that influence peripheral blood stem cell mobilization. Cytotherapy.

4. Khanvilkar S, Mittra I (2025). Copper imparts a new therapeutic property to resveratrol by generating ROS to deactivate cell-free chromatin. Pharmaceuticals 18(1):132

5. Cepeda S, Esteban-Sinovas O, Singh V, Shetty P, Moiyadi A, Dixon L, Weld A, Anichini G, Giannarou S, Camp S, Zemmoura I, Giammalva GR, Del Bene M, Barbotti A, DiMeco F, West TR, Nahed BV, Romero R, Arrese I, Hornero R, Sarabia R (2025). Deep learning-based glioma segmentation of 2D intraoperative ultrasound images: A multicenter study using the Brain Tumor Intraoperative Ultrasound Database (BraTioUS). Cancers. 17(2):315.

6. Cepeda S, Esteban-Sinovas O, Singh V, Moiyadi A, Zemmoura I, Del Bene M, Barbotti A, DiMeco F, West TR, Nahed BV, Giammalva GR, Arrese I, Sarabia R (2025). Prognostic modeling of overall survival in glioblastoma using radiomic features derived from intraoperative ultrasound: A multi-institutional study. Cancers . 17(2): 280.

Thesis
Sayoni Roy. 2025. Understanding the role of Wnt signaling in epidermal homeostasis and stem cell regulation. (LIFE09201604007) (Guide: Dr. Sanjeev Waghmare)

Site of the Week

Cancer Medications Enquiry Database CanMED is to guide systematic, standardized, and reproducible extramural research for observational studies that require the use of specialized nomenclatures during study design.

Interesting Reads

Xie Y, Choi T, Al-Aly Z (2025). Mapping the effectiveness and risks of GLP-1 receptor agonists. Nature Medicine.

Video of the Week

Cardio-Oncology: A New Clinical Frontier and a Novel Platform for Investigation

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Cancer News

Drug candidate eliminates breast cancer tumors in mice in a single dose

EurekAlert, 22/01/2025

In a dosing experiment, the researchers noted that a single dose of ErSO-TFPy in mice induced complete or near-complete regression of small or large tumors, respectively, that had grown in the animals...

New dual stem cell therapy developed to treat brain metastasis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

MedicalXpress, 23/01/2025

New research highlights the promise of a novel stem cell treatment strategy for leptomeningeal brain metastasis (LBM), a severe form of metastatic brain cancer that spreads to membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord and occurs in up to 20% of people with cancer...

First chemotherapy session held at Nerul hospital's cancer day care centre.

Mumbai Live, 20/01/2025

Day care chemotherapy is currently as effective and patient-centered treatment method that reduces the need for regular hospitalisation for chemotherapy. This saves time and resources for the patient. For this purpose, a 10-bed day care chemotherapy unit has been started at Maasaheb Mitai Thackeray Hospital, Nerul under the Health Deparment of NMMC in coordination with Tata, ACTREC...

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