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Liver, biliary tract and pancreatic cancers are increasingly diseases of older people and the global population is aging. 'Older/senior' patients are a heterogeneous group who vary widely in their general health, physical reserve and degree of dependence on others. Cancer is not the only disease that becomes more prevalent in old age, which means older/senior patients may also have comorbidities and lower resilience. The use of chemotherapy decreases as age increases. Chemotherapy treatment regimens may require modification to reduce toxicity, which is more common in older/senior patients. The effect this has on treatment efficacy is not fully understood. Older/senior patients are not represented well in clinical trials which makes estimating benefit for these patients challenging. Medicine demands that new drugs are rigorously tested and evaluated before use, yet clinicians are treating older/senior patients on the basis of extrapolating from randomised controlled trials which actively exclude comorbidities and older patients. This review considers the current situation and the value of retrospective analyses and real-world evidence to plug the older/senior patient 'data gaps'. Moving forwards it is essential to broaden clinical trial inclusion criteria to include more older/senior people. The use of appropriate geriatric assessments may help selection of older patients who are fit enough for more rigorous treatment regimens, alongside effective methods of predicting and managing treatment toxicities. The ability to see past the numerical age of a person and offer appropriate therapeutic choices to individual patients in clinic, is an important skill for younger (and not so young) Medical Oncologists to learn.

A laparoscopic approach for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (L-CRS+HIPEC) in highly selected patients has been reported in small cohorts with a demonstrable reduction in length of stay and post-operative morbidity. This study aims to analyse individual patient data from these international centres collected through the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International (PSOGI) L-CRS+HIPEC registry.

An international registry was designed through a networking database (REDCAP®). All centres performing L-CRS+HIPEC were invited through PSOGI to submit data on their cases. Patient's characteristics, postoperative outcomes and survival were analysed.

Ten international centres contributed a total of 143 L-CRS+HIPEC patients during the study period. The most frequent indication was low grade pseudomyxoma peritonei in 79/143 (55%). Other indications were benign multicyst mesothelioma in 21/143(14%) and peritoneal metastasis from colon carcinoma in 18/143 (12,5%) and ovarian carciancers with peritoneal dissemination.

The clearance of the pharynx by deglutition and the respiratory phase patterns associated with deglutition are important in protecting airways and lungs against aspiration. The deglutition and respiratory phase patterns during sleep in patients (without swallowing disorders while awake) with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) precipitating recurrent intractable aspiration pneumonia were investigated.

After videoendoscopic and videofluorographic examinations of swallowing showed subjects had no swallowing disorders while awake, two adults with recurrent intractable aspiration pneumonia precipitated by severe OSA were examined via time-matched digital recordings of polysomnography and surface electromyography of the muscles (thyrohyoid and suprahyoid muscles) related to swallowing and compared with the same patients before and under CPAP therapy.

CPAP therapy cured recurrent intractable aspiration pneumonia. Swallows following and/or followed by inspiration (uncoordinated deglutition with respiration), which wpnea during sleep and sleep quality but also sleep-related deglutition, especially respiratory phase patterns associated with deglutition in patients with OSA. CPAP therapy may decrease the risk of aspiration and greatly improve aspiration-related diseases such as aspiration pneumonia.Lipid droplets (LDs) ultrastructure progression under proteohormone stimulation provide valuable clues for understanding conditions associated with obesity and diabetes. Current available LDs probes either alter intra-LDs environments or lack photo-resistance; thus, this research domain is poorly understood. In this work, a N-B-O type BODIPY- hexylcarbazole derivative named BoCz-Lip was rationally designed while achieving specific LDs live-cell targeting. BoCz-Lip showed minimal impact on cell viability as well as internal LDs' protein, triglyceride and cholesterol level. Along with its good photostability, it can be used to monitor LDs evolution under super-resolution nanoscopy. More importantly, we concluded how proteohormone could influence LDs ultrastructure, offering a better understanding for correlating diseases at the nanoscale.Herein, a high-efficiency photoactive material, hollow ZnIn2S4 nanocages (ZIS-HNCs) composed of ultrathin nanosheets were creatively synthesized via a metal-organic framework (MOF) derived solvothermal method. It had been specified the underlying mechanism of the ZIS-HNCs evolution under the MOF templated surface. selleck inhibitor Subsequently, the obtained ZIS-HNCs combined with annealing TiO2 modified electrode (ZIS-HNCs@TiO2), and the ZIS-HNCs@TiO2 exhibited intense transient photocurrent. The enhanced photocurrent signal benefited from the multiple light capture effect of ZIS-HNCs, ultrathin nanosheet subunits of ZIS-HNCs, and typical type Ⅱ heterojunction, which could effectively retard the photoexcited electron-hole pairs recombination, and accelerated charge separation and transfer. Taking antibiotic lincomycin (Lin) as a model, a signal-off photoelectrochemical (PEC) aptasensor based on the ZIS-HNCs@TiO2 was established and manifested a high sensitive detection for Lin with a linear response range from 0.0001 to 0.1 nM as well as an ultralow detection limit of 0.084 pM. Additionally, the proposed PEC aptasensor showed acceptable stability and remarkable selectivity. Therefore, this study provides a promising strategy to design nanomaterials with superior photoelectric activity for PEC sensing applications.