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or research purposes but also for physicians to keep track of their patient's status. <br />.

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Role of TC2N in carcinogenesis has been largely unfathomed until recently when it was identified as a novel oncogene in lung cancer. Subsequently, a tumour suppressor role of TC2N was reported in breast cancer. It is therefore highly relevant to investigate TC2N molecular partners/mechanisms on a larger scale including a wider range of tumour types.

We investigated TC2N mRNA expression, its promoter methylation levels, effects of TC2N transcription on overall patient survival, somatic mutations in TC2N gene and correlation between TC2N mRNA expression and other cancer genes in pan-cancer by using data available from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) databases.

TC2N mRNA expression was differentially regulated in 9/33 TCGA tumour types. Of these 9 tumours, 5 tumour types (cholangiocarcinoma, ovarian-serous-cystadenocarcinoma, rectal-adenocarcinoma, stomach-adenocarcinoma and thymoma) had significantly higher TC2N mRNA expression while 4 (pheochromocytoma-and-paragananeous-melanoma, uterine-corpus-endometrial-carcinoma, colon-endocervical-adenocarcinoma, bladder-urothelial-carcinoma and breast-invasive-carcinoma.

Our findings unravel several un-explored avenues related to the role of TC2N in tumourigenesis of several cancers, suggesting TC2N as an important player and a potential candidate for tumour-therapy.

Our findings unravel several un-explored avenues related to the role of TC2N in tumourigenesis of several cancers, suggesting TC2N as an important player and a potential candidate for tumour-therapy.

This study aimed to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of a PCR-based novel technique for the detection of BRAF mutation in early stages of the cancer.

Different lengths of primer sets, ranging from 8 bp to 20 bp, were designed and used in this study. These primers were developed by applying on cancer cell lines. After that, the sensitivity and specificity of the methodology was evaluated by making serial dilutions.

The quantitative allele specific discrimination PCR (QUASAqPCR) primer with 14 bp length was sensitive enough to detect significantly 11,000 ratio of BRAFV600E to wild-type background (P = 0.011), when using 150 nanograms of DNA from cell lines in the reactions.

High sensitivity and specificity levels of QUASA-qPCR method can improve diagnostic accuracy for BRAF mutation testing in patients at early stages of cancers and help stratify the appropriate choice of treatment.

High sensitivity and specificity levels of QUASA-qPCR method can improve diagnostic accuracy for BRAF mutation testing in patients at early stages of cancers and help stratify the appropriate choice of treatment.

Health information-seeking behavior (HISB) plays a key role in self-care management, promoting quality of life and improving health. However, some individual and contextual barriers hinder women undergoing mastectomy access to needed information. Identifying and removing health information-seeking barriers for these women undergoing mastectomy can lead to improving their health outcomes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the health information-seeking barriers for women with breast cancer after mastectomy.

This was a conventional qualitative content analysis in which the participants were selected through purposive sampling based on the study inclusion criteria from two hospitals of Shahid Mohammadi and Persian Gulf and Chemotherapy Center of Omid in Bandar Abbas. The study population consisted of 17 women with breast cancer after mastectomy. buy Artenimol Data were collected through semi-structured face-to-face interviews.

Seven main themes were introduced as three individual barriers, including fear, shame and embarrassment and inadequate health literacy and four contextual barriers of economic status, physicians and medical staff, lack of accessibility of information sources and the behavior of those around them that were the underlying factors to explain the barriers of health information seeking in mastectomized women.

The results of this study emphasize the need for further attention from Iranian authorities to health care, especially women' health care institutions, to reform the health system and remove their health information -seeking barriers.<br />.

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Toll-like receptors 2; 4 (TLR2;4) are an essential component of the innate immunity and play an important role in immune-surveillance and immune response to various microorganisms. This study aimed to investigate the association between TLR2 and TLR4 polymorphism and the risk of acquiring severe infections, and impact on AML patient's outcome.

Using polymerase chain reaction - restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP); we analyzed three SNPs in the TLR2 (Arg753Gln) and TLR4 (Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile) in 120 AML patients and 100 healthy control subjects.

No significant differences in genotype or alleles frequency between healthy controls and AML patients regarding TLR2 Arg753Gln, TLR4 Asp299Gly and TLR4 Thr399Ile polymorphisms (P>0.05 for all). Neutropenic fever was detected in 110 out of 120 (91.7%) of the studied AML patients. The sepsis and pneumonia were identified in 20 out of 120 patients (16.7%). The incidence of sepsis was associated with TLR2 Arg753Gln AG genotypes, A allele and TLR4 Asp299Gly CT genotype and C allele as compared to other genotypes and alleles. Moreover; TLR2 (Arg753Gln) GG polymorphisms significantly associated with shortest overall survival (OS) and shortest disease-free survival (DFS); while TLR4 polymorphisms affect the DSF only but not OS. In AML patients TLR2 Arg753Gln gene polymorphism is associated with high susceptibility to sepsis and TLR4 (Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile) gene polymorphism is associated with high susceptibility for both pneumonia; and sepsis.

TLR2 Arg753Gln (AG; GG genotype) polymorphisms are associated with shortest OS and DFS. Moreover; significant association between TLR2 polymorphisms, TLR4 Arg753Gln polymorphisms and risk of severe infections in AML patients was documented.<br />.

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