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"CXCR4-CXCL12 and VEGF correlate to uveal melanoma progression".

scientific article published in January 2010

A 52-year-old man with a mass in the perineal region. Perineurioma

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

A case of primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma with immature features in an old man. Diffuse Large B-cell Lymhpoma with immature features or B-cell Lymhpoblastic Lymphoma?

scientific article published on 04 July 2020

A cutaneous inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour with ALK rearrangement in the upper extremity.

scientific article published in October 2014

A new look at the ALK gene in cancer: copy number gain and amplification

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

A novel CDC73 gene mutation in an Italian family with hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumour (HPT-JT) syndrome

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

A point mutation (G574A) in the chemokine receptor CXCR4 detected in human cancer cells enhances migration

scientific article published on 23 April 2009

A “live” biopsy in a small-cell lung cancer patient by detection of circulating tumor cells

article by Simona Bevilacqua et al published July 2009 in Lung Cancer

ALK rearrangement testing by FISH analysis in non-small-cell lung cancer patients: results of the first italian external quality assurance scheme.

scientific article published in October 2014

AXL Is a Novel Predictive Factor and Therapeutic Target for Radioactive Iodine Refractory Thyroid Cancer

scientific article published on 07 June 2019

Aberrant expression of posterior HOX genes in well differentiated histotypes of thyroid cancers

scientific article

Activating E17K mutation in the gene encoding the protein kinase AKT1 in a subset of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung

scientific article published on 26 December 2007

Activation of TYRO3/AXL tyrosine kinase receptors in thyroid cancer

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Activity of gefitinib in a non-small-cell lung cancer patient with both activating and resistance EGFR mutations

scientific article published in July 2013

Adipose microenvironment promotes triple negative breast cancer cell invasiveness and dissemination by producing CCL5.

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor mutations: current evidence and future perspectives

scientific article published on October 2013

Analysis of NSCLC tumour heterogeneity, proliferative and 18F-FDG PET indices reveals Ki67 prognostic role in adenocarcinomas

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Analysis of Octamer-Binding Transcription Factors Oct2 and Oct1 and their coactivator BOB.1/OBF.1 in Lymphomas

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Anaplastic lymphoma kinase: a glimmer of hope in lung cancer treatment?

scientific article published on April 2013

Assessment of high-sensitive methods for the detection of EGFR mutations in circulating free tumor DNA from NSCLC patients

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Atypical amplification of chromosome region 22q12 in melanoma: A case report

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Aurora B expression in post-puberal testicular germ cell tumours.

scientific article

Aurora Kinase A expression predicts platinum-resistance and adverse outcome in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma patients

scientific article

B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma presenting as solitary temporal mass with amplification of AML1/RUNX1: case report

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

BAG3 promotes pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma growth by activating stromal macrophages.

scientific article

BAG3 protein expression in melanoma metastatic lymph nodes correlates with patients' survival.

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

BAG3 protein is overexpressed in human glioblastoma and is a potential target for therapy

scientific journal article

BCL10 expression and localization in ocular adnexa MALT lymphomas: a comparative cytogenetic and immunohistochemical study

scientific article

BRAF mutation and RASSF1A expression in thyroid carcinoma of southern Italy

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BRAF/NRAS mutation frequencies among primary tumors and metastases in patients with melanoma

scientific article published on 21 May 2012

Bevacizumab increases viral distribution in human anaplastic thyroid carcinoma xenografts and enhances the effects of E1A-defective adenovirus dl922-947.

scientific article

Breast MALT lymphomas: a clinicopathological and cytogenetic study of 9 cases

scientific article published on 27 July 2012

Breast systemic follicular lymphoma in a man: a case report

scientific article

CD133 and CD44 cell surface markers do not identify cancer stem cells in primary human gastric tumors

scientific article published in June 2012

CD15, CD30, and PAX5 evaluation in Hodgkin's lymphoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology samples

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

CD4(+)CD45RA(+)CXCR4 (+) lymphocytes are inversely associated with progression in stages I-III melanoma patients.

scientific article published on 25 September 2009

CD90 expression in atypical meningiomas and meningioma metastasis.

scientific article published on June 2014

CXC chemokine receptor 4 is expressed in uveal malignant melanoma and correlates with the epithelioid-mixed cell type

scientific article published on 05 April 2007

CXCL12-binding receptors expression in non-small cell lung cancer relates to tumoral microvascular density and CXCR4 positive circulating tumoral cells in lung draining venous blood

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

Cancer Diagnostic and Predictive Biomarkers 2015.

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Cancer diagnostic and predictive biomarkers

scientific article

Cellular and molecular crosstalk between leptin receptor and estrogen receptor-{alpha} in breast cancer: molecular basis for a novel therapeutic setting

scientific article published on 21 April 2010

Cervical vagal schwannoma. A case report

scientific article published on February 2009

Characterization of a designed vascular endothelial growth factor receptor antagonist helical peptide with antiangiogenic activity in vivo

scientific article

Chlamydia psittaci in ocular adnexa MALT lymphoma: a possible role in lymphomagenesis and a different geographical distribution.

scientific article

Circulating tumor cells as emerging tumor biomarkers in lung cancer

Concomitant CXCR4 and CXCR7 Expression Predicts Poor Prognosis in Renal Cancer

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Concomitant occurrence of facial cutaneous and parotid gland metastases from rectal cancer after preoperative chemoradiotherapy

scientific article published on 29 May 2007

Correction: Intratumor Heterogeneity of ALK-Rearrangements and Homogeneity of EGFR-Mutations in Mixed Lung Adenocarcinoma

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Critical role of CCDC6 in the neoplastic growth of testicular germ cell tumors

scientific article

Crizotinib Response in a Late Relapse of ALK-positive Lung Adenocarcinoma

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Current treatment of cutaneous squamous cancer and molecular strategies for its sensitization to new target-based drugs.

scientific article published on 24 September 2012

Cutaneous Presentation of Follicular Lymphomas

article published in 2001

DNA ploidy and cyclin D1 expression in basal cell carcinoma of the head and neck

scientific article

De novo expression of uncoupling protein 3 is associated to enhanced mitochondrial thioesterase-1 expression and fatty acid metabolism in liver of fenofibrate-treated rats

scientific article published in August 2002

Deregulation of HOX B13 expression in urinary bladder cancer progression

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

Detection of EGFR mutations by TaqMan mutation detection assays powered by competitive allele-specific TaqMan PCR technology

scientific article published on December 2013

Detection of ROS1 rearrangement in non-small cell lung cancer: current and future perspectives

scientific article

Detection of folate receptor-positive circulating tumor cells by ligand-targeted polymerase chain reaction in non-small cell lung cancer patients

scientific article published on July 2016

Detection of high-mobility group proteins A1 and A2 represents a valid diagnostic marker in post-pubertal testicular germ cell tumours

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Detection of predictive markers for therapeutic stratification of salivary glands tumors

scientific article

Diagnosis of anaplastic large cell lymphoma on late peri-implant breast seroma: Management of cytological sample by an integrated approach.

scientific article published on 6 April 2018

Diagnostic accuracy of FNA cytology for diagnosis of salivary gland tumors in pediatric patients

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Differential role of CD133 and CXCR4 in renal cell carcinoma

scientific article published on November 2010

Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia syndrome

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Down-regulation of oestrogen receptor-β associates with transcriptional co-regulator PATZ1 delocalization in human testicular seminomas.

scientific article published on 7 March 2011

EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly is an aggressive post-germinal center B-cell neoplasm characterized by prominent nuclear factor-kB activation

scientific article published on 27 April 2012

EGFR mutational status in penile cancer.

scientific article published on 22 March 2013

EGFR mutations in lung cancer: from tissue testing to liquid biopsy

scientific article published on January 2015

Epithelial to mesenchymal transition by TGFβ-1 induction increases stemness characteristics in primary non small cell lung cancer cell line

scientific article

Establishment and phenotypic characterization of the first human pulmonary blastoma cell line

scientific article published on 17 August 2010

Estrogen receptor β expression in human prostate tissue

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Expression analysis of SPARC/osteonectin in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients: from saliva to surgical specimen

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

Expression of CXCR4 Predicts Poor Prognosis in Patients with Malignant Melanoma

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Expression of PCNA in the testis of the lizard, Podarcis s. sicula: an endogenous molecular marker of mitotic germinal epithelium proliferation.

scientific article published in November 2001

Expression of lumbosacral HOX genes, crucial in kidney organogenesis, is systematically deregulated in clear cell kidney cancers

scientific article published in June 2011

Expression of the anti-apoptotic protein BAG3 in human melanomas

scientific article published on 18 August 2011

Expression of the antiapoptotic protein BAG3 is a feature of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and its overexpression is associated with poorer survival.

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

Extragonadal germ cell tumors: Not just a matter of location. A review about clinical, molecular and pathological features

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

GPR30 is overexpressed in post-puberal testicular germ cell tumors

scientific article published on 15 March 2011

Giant cell-rich extrapleural solitary fibrous tumor: Cytological findings and differential diagnosis of a rare neoplasm

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

HOX D13 expression across 79 tumor tissue types

scientific article published in October 2009

High CXCR4 expression correlates with sunitinib poor response in metastatic renal cancer.

scientific article

High levels of GPR30 protein in human testicular carcinoma in situ and seminomas correlate with low levels of estrogen receptor-beta and indicate a switch in estrogen responsiveness

scientific article

Histomorphologic parameters and CXCR4 mRNA and protein expression in sentinel node melanoma metastasis are correlated to clinical outcome

scientific article published on 20 March 2010

HtrA1 loss is related to aggressive behavior parameters in sentinel node positive breast cancer

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Human melanoma metastases express functional CXCR4.

scientific article published on April 2006

Hyperexpression of HOXC13, located in the 12q13 chromosomal region, in well‑differentiated and dedifferentiated human liposarcomas

scientific article published on October 2013

IgV(H) and bcl6 somatic mutation analysis reveals the heterogeneity of cutaneous B-cell lymphoma, and indicates the presence of undisclosed local antigens

scientific article published on June 2004

In vivo activity of miR-34a mimics delivered by stable nucleic acid lipid particles (SNALPs) against multiple myeloma

scientific article

Inadequacy of tissue microarrays for the immunohistochemical detection of cancer stem cells in solid tumors: a viewpoint

scientific article published on 07 October 2013

Increased HOX C13 expression in metastatic melanoma progression

scientific article

Increased expression and nuclear localization of the centrosomal kinase Nek2 in human testicular seminomas

scientific article

Inhibition of stromal CXCR4 impairs development of lung metastases.

scientific article

Interleukin-8, but not the Related Chemokine CXCL1, Sustains an Autocrine Circuit Necessary for the Properties and Functions of Thyroid Cancer Stem Cells.

scientific article

Interventional cytopathology in COVID-19 ERA

scientific article published on 12 July 2020

Intratumor Heterogeneity of ALK-Rearrangements and Homogeneity of EGFR-Mutations in Mixed Lung Adenocarcinoma

scientific article published on 30 September 2015

Intravesical chemo-immunotherapy in non muscle invasive bladder cancer

scientific article published on August 2013

LncRNA HOTAIR as Prognostic Circulating Marker and Potential Therapeutic Target in Patients with Tumor Diseases

scientific article

Long non-coding RNA containing ultraconserved genomic region 8 promotes bladder cancer tumorigenesis

scientific article published on March 2016

Loss of TCR-beta F1 and/or EZRIN expression is associated with unfavorable prognosis in nodal peripheral T-cell lymphomas

scientific article published on 19 April 2013

Loss of oestrogen receptor beta, high PCNA and p53 expression and aneuploidy as markers of worse prognosis in ovarian granulosa cell tumours

scientific article

Lung cancer diagnosis on ovary mass: a case report

scientific article published on 10 May 2013

MYC chromosomal aberration in differential diagnosis between Burkitt and other aggressive lymphomas

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Malignant extrapleural solitary fibrous tumor arising in the sublingual gland: A case report and review of literature

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Massive edema of ovary with cytogenetic alteration of chromosome 12q13-15 in adolescent patient: a case report

scientific article published on 7 February 2013

Massive squamous differentiation and anaplastic features in eccrine porocarcinoma as rare and confounding elements

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Mast cells induce epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and stem cell features in human thyroid cancer cells through an IL-8-Akt-Slug pathway.

scientific article

Medullary thyroid cancer, papillary thyroid microcarcinoma and Graves' disease: an unusual clinical coexistence

scientific article published in December 2001

Molecular and cell biology of testicular germ cell tumors

scientific article published on January 2009

Molecular detection and targeting of EWSR1 fusion transcripts in soft tissue tumors

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Molecular strategies for detecting chromosomal translocations in soft tissue tumors (review).

scientific article

Multiparametric MRI for prostate cancer detection: performance in patients with prostate-specific antigen values between 2.5 and 10 ng/mL.

scientific article published on May 2014

Multiple genetic alterations within the PI3K pathway are responsible for AKT activation in patients with ovarian carcinoma

scientific article

Multiplex HPV RNA in situ hybridization/p16 immunohistochemistry: a novel approach to detect papillomavirus in HPV-related cancers. A novel multiplex ISH/IHC assay to detect HPV

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridisation to detect anaplastic lymphoma kinase and ROS proto-oncogene 1 receptor tyrosine kinase rearrangements in lung cancer cytological samples

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Mutant AKT1-E17K is oncogenic in lung epithelial cells

scientific article published on 25 May 2015

Myoepithelial sialadenitis with metachromatic matrix: a diagnostic pitfall. A case of salivary gland swelling in paediatric patient evaluated by Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Nanotechnologies to use bisphosphonates as potent anticancer agents: the effects of zoledronic acid encapsulated into liposomes

scientific article published on 29 March 2011

NeuroD1 expression in human prostate cancer: can it contribute to neuroendocrine differentiation comprehension?

scientific article published on 20 November 2006

New self-assembly nanoparticles and stealth liposomes for the delivery of zoledronic acid: a comparative study

scientific article

New therapeutic perspectives in CCDC6 deficient lung cancer cells

scientific article published on 24 October 2014

Nivolumab in Heavily Pretreated Metastatic Gastric Cancer Patients: Real-Life Data from a Western Population

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Nuclear bcl10 expression characterizes a group of ocular adnexa MALT lymphomas with shorter failure-free survival

article published in 2006

Nuclear localization of cancer stem cell marker CD133 in triple-negative breast cancer: a case report

scientific article published on 01 September 2013

Oncogenic role of the E3 ubiquitin ligase NEDD4-1, a PTEN negative regulator, in non-small-cell lung carcinomas

scientific article

Oral and Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: prognostic and predictive parameters in the etiopathogenetic route

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Ovarian metastasis from renal cell carcinoma: a report of three cases.

scientific article published on October 2003

Overexpression of both CXC chemokine receptor 4 and vascular endothelial growth factor proteins predicts early distant relapse in stage II-III colorectal cancer patients

scientific article published on May 2006

P53 and hMSH2 expression in basal cell carcinomas and malignant melanomas from photoexposed areas of head and neck region.

scientific article

PATZ1 expression correlates positively with BAX and negatively with BCL6 and survival in human diffuse large B cell lymphomas

scientific article published on August 2016

PATZ1 gene has a critical role in the spermatogenesis and testicular tumours

scientific journal article

PCNA in the testis of the frog, Rana esculenta: a molecular marker of the mitotic testicular epithelium proliferation.

scientific article published in July 2000

POZ-, AT-hook-, and zinc finger-containing protein (PATZ) interacts with human oncogene B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) and is required for its negative autoregulation

scientific article published in 2014

POZ-, AT-hook-, and zinc finger-containing protein (PATZ) interacts with human oncogene B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) and is required for its negative autoregulation.

scientific article

Panobinostat synergizes with zoledronic acid in prostate cancer and multiple myeloma models by increasing ROS and modulating mevalonate and p38-MAPK pathways.

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Parallel determination of NeuroD1, chromogranin-A, KI67 and androgen receptor expression in surgically treated prostate cancers.

scientific article published in January 2011

Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma with Cyclin D1 overexpression: a case report.

scientific article

Previously reported sonographic appearances of regional melanoma metastases are not likely due to necrosis

scientific article published on 01 August 2011

Primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the liver with lung metastases successfully treated with STI-571 (imatinib mesylate).

scientific article

Primary pleural squamous cell carcinoma: A diagnostic challenge

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Prognostic implications of node metastatic features in OSCC: A retrospective study on 121 neck dissections

scientific article published on 02 October 2013

Prognostic value of cancer stem cells, epithelial-mesenchymal transition and circulating tumor cells in lung cancer

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

Prostate cancer detection in the "grey area" of prostate-specific antigen below 10 ng/ml: head-to-head comparison of the updated PCPT calculator and Chun's nomogram, two risk estimators incorporating prostate cancer antigen 3.

scientific article

Rapid on-site evaluation and the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

Recent advances in the biology of germ cell tumors: implications for the diagnosis and treatment

scientific article

Recurrent presence of the PLCG1 S345F mutation in nodal peripheral T-cell lymphomas

scientific article published on 10 October 2014

Renal cell carcinoma with solitary toe metastasis

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

SPARC/osteonectin is involved in metastatic process to the lung during melanoma progression

scientific article published on 04 July 2014

Signaling networks associated with AKT activation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): new insights on the role of phosphatydil-inositol-3 kinase

scientific article

Small tumor of the medial breast presenting with a contralateral lymph node involvement detected on positron emission tomography scan.

scientific article published in September 2007

Soluble interleukin-2 receptor in stage I–III melanoma

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Structure-based design of an urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor-derived peptide inhibiting cell migration and lung metastasis.

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Survival After Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer Arising in the Population Exposed to Illegal Dumping of Toxic Waste in the Land of Fires ('Terra dei Fuochi') of Southern Italy

scientific article

Synchronous primary adenocarcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma of the esophagus

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Synovial sarcoma diagnosis on fine needle cytology sample confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridisation

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

TAZ/WWTR1 is overexpressed in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

scientific article

TLR4 down-regulation identifies high risk HPV infection and integration in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

scientific article published on January 2016

Testicular and testicular adnexa tumors in the elderly.

scientific article published on March 2013

The Akt1/IL-6/STAT3 pathway regulates growth of lung tumor initiating cells

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

The Contrasting Role of p16Ink4A Patterns of Expression in Neuroendocrine and Non-Neuroendocrine Lung Tumors: A Comprehensive Analysis with Clinicopathologic and Molecular Correlations

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

The HOX genes network in uro-genital cancers: mechanisms and potential therapeutic implications.

scientific article published on January 2011

The anti-apoptotic BAG3 protein is expressed in lung carcinomas and regulates small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) tumor growth

scientific article

The high-mobility group A1-estrogen receptor β nuclear interaction is impaired in human testicular seminomas.

scientific article

The nonreceptor-type tyrosine phosphatase PTPN13 is a tumor suppressor gene in non-small cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

The oncolytic virus dl922-947 reduces IL-8/CXCL8 and MCP-1/CCL2 expression and impairs angiogenesis and macrophage infiltration in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.

scientific article published on 29 November 2015

The role of CD133 in the identification and characterisation of tumour-initiating cells in non-small-cell lung cancer

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The role of E-cadherin down-regulation in oral cancer: CDH1 gene expression and epigenetic blockage.

scientific article published on January 2014

The role of EBV in the pathogenesis of Burkitt's Lymphoma: an Italian hospital based survey

scientific article published in 2014

The role of tissue microarray in the era of target-based agents.

scientific article published on June 2011

The stress hormone norepinephrine increases migration of prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Thyroid lymphoma: early clinical suspicion may be critical for cure

scientific article

Tissue micro arrays for immunohistochemical detection of inflammatory infiltrates in renal cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Transarterial embolization (TAE) is equally effective and slightly safer than transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) to manage liver metastases in neuroendocrine tumors

scientific article published on 03 January 2014

Tumor biobanks in translational medicine

scientific article published on 2 October 2012

Unexpected distribution of cKIT and BRAF mutations among southern Italian patients with sinonasal melanoma

scientific article published on 29 June 2013

Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Resection of a Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Pleura

Urotensin II receptor determines prognosis of bladder cancer regulating cell motility/invasion

scientific article

Urotensin II receptor on preoperative biopsy is associated with upstaging and upgrading in prostate cancer

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Urotensin II receptor predicts the clinical outcome of prostate cancer patients and is involved in the regulation of motility of prostate adenocarcinoma cells.

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Validation of the new IASLC/ATS/ERS lung adenocarcinoma classification: a surgeon's perspective

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Valproic acid potentiates the anticancer activity of capecitabine in vitro and in vivo in breast cancer models via induction of thymidine phosphorylase expression.

scientific article published on 31 December 2015

Vorinostat synergises with capecitabine through upregulation of thymidine phosphorylase.

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WNT pathway in oral cancer: epigenetic inactivation of WNT-inhibitors.

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cAMP induced modifications of HOX D gene expression in prostate cells allow the identification of a chromosomal area involved in vivo with neuroendocrine differentiation of human advanced prostate cancers

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pEGFR-Tyr 845 expression as prognostic factors in oral squamous cell carcinoma: a tissue-microarray study with clinic-pathological correlations

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