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Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a rare autosomal dominant cancer predisposition syndrome characterized by a markedly elevated lifetime cancer risk. Despite the substantial psychological burden associated with LFS, tailored psychosocial interventions remain unavailable. [...]

Current liver T1 mapping methods present restricted liver coverage, take long acquisition times and mostly exclude the T1 bias induced by fat and iron effects. We evaluated the clinical feasibility of an accelerated water T1 (wT1) mapping method, including all liver segments and the potential of its T2*-compensation (wT1comp) for fibrosis tissue assessment.Forty-three patients were classified into three groups: benign without/with risk of developing fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). [...]

Managing aggressive meningiomas remains challenging because of limited treatment options besides surgical tumor removal and radiotherapy. To increase the repertoire of promising therapies for aggressive meningiomas, we established a multistep drug screening workflow, focusing on targetable genes obtained from transcriptome data of highly aggressive grade 3 meningiomas. [...]

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized cancer therapy, offering durable responses and prolonged survival. However, these therapies also present unique challenges, particularly with the onset of immune-related adverse events (irAEs), which can manifest during treatment either acutely and/or become chronic or emerge long after treatment cessation. [...]

Checkpoint inhibitor therapy with PD-1/PD-L1-antibodies has significant benefits in non-small-cell lung cancer treatment even in advanced stage IVA/B. While PD-L1 expression in tumor is a weak but relevant predictor of treatment response, impact and interaction of potential prognostic factors like ECOG status, LDH-levels, CRP-levels, and genetic mutations remain so far undefined. [...]

Ewing sarcoma (EwS) is a highly aggressive pediatric malignancy driven by EWSR1::ETS fusion oncoproteins -primarily EWSR1::FLI1- which deregulate genes essential for differentiation, proliferation, and cell survival. To uncover key downstream targets of this fusion involved in cell differentiation, we combined transcriptomic profiling of EwS cell lines following EWSR1::FLI1 inhibition with gene ontology analysis, a clinically annotated gene expression dataset derived from EwS patient material and network analyses. [...]

Background Although 98% of potassium (K+) resides intracellularly, current clinical diagnostics assess only extracellular K+ concentrations. Noninvasive imaging of tissue K+ distribution could provide novel insights into pathophysiologic processes in diseases such as primary aldosteronism (PA). [...]

Kisspeptins (KPs) and their receptor (KISS1R) promote metastasis and tumor progression in various cancers such as triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Targeting KISS1R holds great promise for molecular imaging and targeted radionuclide therapy of aggressively disseminated cancers. [...]