Radiotherapy (RT) is an integral modality in the treatment of head and neck cancers (HNC), especially for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which is prevalent in Southern China. However, radiation may result in brain necrosis, a severe, irreversible or even life-threatening cerebral complication, since healthy brain tissue in or around the RT fields could be damaged. The optimal timing of initiating me...
Thyroid associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is an autoimmune condition affecting the orbit and ocular adnexa that may lead to vision loss. Treatment for TAO remains challenging because of the poor understanding of its pathogenesis. On July 26, 2022, Prof. Wenru Su's group from Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University recently published their results in Cell Reports Medicine.
Li Haiyan, director of breast surgery, and her team from the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, recently completed a breast reduction for a female patient with gigantomastia. The operation removed 13 kilograms of excess breast tissue and reshaped both breasts to help the patient return to a healthy life.Comparison of the patient's chest enhancement CT. Preoperative size (left)...
Recently, Professor Ming Kuang from the Center of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and colleagues published novel mechanisms underlying post-RFA HCC recurrence in internationally renowned journal Hepatology, entitled “Eliminating METTL1-mediated accumulation of PMN-MDSCs prevents HCC recurrence after radiofrequency ablation”.
A senior Chinese scientist has recently elaborated on a theory on effector immune cell deployment (EICD) in the immune system as a new mechanism for combating tumors.
It is still controversial to what extent neurogenesis occurs in adult primates. On May 30, 2022, the joint teams of Professor Sheng Liu/Yizhi Liu/Mengqing Xiang from Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University published the research paper "Single-cell transcriptomics of adult macaque hippocampus reveals neural precursor cell populations" in Nature Neuroscience (impact factor 25).
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