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Science Sparks @ ACTREC
Date Image12th October 2026 Vol. No. 15 ; Issue No.756
Publications

1. Urun Y, Sridharan K, Zgura A, Zayed A, Laguado MIZ, Yetisyigit T, Yano A, Wenzel M...., Maitre P, Maison P, Ndjembidouma BCM, Lu K, Li J, Li H, de Moura Leite L, Lalani AA, Küronya Z, Kucharz J, Koumba AB, Kopp RM, Kopecky J...etal (2026). Global Disparities in the Availability and Reimbursement of Systemic Therapies for Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results of the International ARON-AID Survey. Oncologist.

2. Varyani RA, Waghmare M, Saha P, CM Krishna, Bajaj M, Mane P, Kathale A, Mundhe V, Gaikwad P (2026). Biofluid based biochemical and clinicopathological profiling for the detection and stratification of oral potentially malignant disorders. Clinical Oral Investigation. 30(10):509.

3. Arora M, Panda R, Bassi S, Jadhav K, Chand P, Biswas M, Biswas MM, Rawal T, Kaur N, Pimple S, Bhagabaty SM (2026). Codevelopment, mplementation, and Evaluation of an AI-powered Conversational Interface for Tobacco Cessation: Protocol for a Single-Group Pre-Post Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 15:e82264.

4. Mojidra R, Kumari S, Gardi N, Thomas D, Bagal B, Khattry N, Gokarn A, Punatar S, Govekar R (2026). Functional substitution of imatinib-inactivated canonical oncoprotein BCR::ABL1 by overexpressed PLAG1 results in BCR::ABL1-independent resistance in blast phase of chronic myeloid leukemia. Leukemia Research.

5. Nair S, Inchanalkar M, Chavdaa R, Joshi A, Patil V, Noronha V, Prabhash K, Mahajan A, Sable N, Janu A, Rane S, Patil A, Sinha S, V.V. Sameema, Sonawane K, Nair D, Agarwal JP, Laskar S, Gupta T, D’Cruz A, Chaukar D, Pai P, Mahimkar MB, Chaturvedi P (2026). Effect of erlotinib and celecoxib as short-course neoadjuvant therapy in operable oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: a randomized controlled window-of-opportunity trial. Oral Oncology. 182:108156.

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Interesting Reads

Prensner JR., Freed-Pastor WA., Abelin JG. et al (2026). Mapping the functional dark proteome in cancer. Nature Reviews Cancer

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FDA Approves Atezolizumab Plus Chemo for Stage 3 dMMR Colon Cancer.

Oncology Nursing News , 08/10/2026

The decision is based on the phase 3 ATOMIC trial (Alliance A021502; NCT02912559), in which adding the PD-L1 inhibitor to modified FOLFOX6 (mFOLFOX6) reduced the risk of disease recurrence or death by 50% compared with mFOLFOX6 alone (HR, 0.50; 95% CI, 0.35-0.73)…

Nerve-stimulation device enters human trials for cancer-related cachexia.

News-Medical, 07/10/2026

The OnVagus device delivers noninvasive electrical stimulation through the skin to modulate the vagus nerve, a major nerve pathway connecting the brain to organs including the gut and liver...

Circular DNA exposes a weakness in cancer cells.

Nature, 06/10/2026

DNA fragments generated during these episodes provide the substrates for circularization through error-prone DNA repair, giving rise to ecDNA...

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