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After its topical application on freshly excised cone biopsies, the nuclei of tumor cells emitted a specific fluorescent signal that could be visualized using a hand-held fluorescence confocal microscope. This approach has the potential to improve in vivo identification of tumor cells during colposcopy examination allowing a rapid, non-invasive, and accurate histopathological assessment.The objective of this retrospective study was to assess the detection rate (DR), positive predictive value (PPV) and correct detection rate (CDR) of 18F-rhPSMA-7 PET/CT in biochemical recurrence (BCR) of prostate cancer (PCa) after radical prostatectomy (RP) using composite validation. Methods18F-rhPSMA-7 PET/CT scans of patients with BCR between July 2017 and June 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. All suspicious lesions were recorded. Reference standard was histopathology or combinations of histopathology, imaging or prostate-specific antigen (PSA) follow up, defined as composite reference standard. DR was calculated as the proportion of PSMA PET positive patients to all patients independent of the reference standard, while the CDR was the percentage of patients who had at least one true positive PSMA PET lesion localized that corresponded with the reference standard. The PPV was defined as the proportion of patients who had true positive to all positive findings. The correlation between DR and patient chaostatectomy (P less then 0.001). Conclusion18F-rhPSMA-7 PET/CT offers high PPV in BCR after RP. Its CDR is dependent on the pre-scan PSA value with excellent CDR in patients with PSA ≥1 ng/mL.
The pace and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with ongoing efforts by health agencies to communicate harms, have created a pressing need for data to inform messaging about smoking, vaping, and COVID-19. We examined reactions to COVID-19 and traditional health harms messages discouraging smoking and vaping.

Participants were a national convenience sample of 810 US adults recruited online in May 2020. All participated in a smoking message experiment and a vaping message experiment, presented in a random order. In each experiment, participants viewed one message formatted as a Twitter post. The experiments adopted a 3 (traditional health harms of smoking or vaping three harms, one harm, absent) × 2 (COVID-19 harms one harm, absent) between-subjects design. Outcomes included perceived message effectiveness (primary) and constructs from the Tobacco Warnings Model (secondary attention, negative affect, cognitive elaboration, social interactions).

messages with traditional or COVID-19 harms elicited higher perceived effectiveness for discouraging smoking than control messages without these harms (all p <0.001). However, including both traditional and COVID-19 harms in smoking messages had no benefit beyond including either alone. Smoking messages affected Tobacco Warnings Model constructs and did not elicit more reactance than control messages. Smoking messages also elicited higher perceived effectiveness for discouraging vaping. Including traditional harms in messages about
elicited higher perceived effectiveness for discouraging vaping (p <0.05), but including COVID-19 harms did not.

Messages linking smoking with COVID-19 may hold promise for discouraging smoking and may have the added benefit of also discouraging vaping.
Messages linking smoking with COVID-19 may hold promise for discouraging smoking and may have the added benefit of also discouraging vaping.
To cross-validate estimates of the size of the illicit cigarette trade based on the results of four different survey methods.

In 2018/2019, four non-industry-funded, large-scale studies were conducted in selected Brazilian cities packs discarded in household garbage/PDG (1 city), packs littered in the streets/PLS (5 cities), a phone survey of tobacco users' purchase behaviors/VIGITEL (5 cities), and a face-to-face household survey of tobacco users' purchase behaviors/FTF-household (2 cities). The proportions of illicit cigarettes consumed were based on the price paid by smokers in their last purchase (VIGITEL or FTF-household) and/or direct observation of brand names and health warnings (PDG, PLS or FTF-household).

Based on PLS, the share of packs that avoided taxation ranged from 30.4% (95% CI 25.6% to 35.7%) in Rio de Janeiro to 70.1% (95% CI 64.6% to 75.0%) in Campo Grande; and PDG conducted in Rio de Janeiro found an even lower proportion point estimate of illicit cigarette use (26.8%, 95% CI 25.1% tax policy in Brazil and other low-income and middle-income countries.In advanced prostate cancer, resistance to androgen deprivation therapy is achieved through numerous mechanisms, including loss of the androgen receptor (AR) allowing for AR-independent growth. Therapeutic options are limited for AR-independent castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), and defining mechanisms critical for survival is of utmost importance for targeting this lethal disease. Our studies focus on identifying telomere maintenance mechanism (TMM) hallmarks adopted by CRPC to promote survival. TMMs are responsible for telomere elongation to instill replicative immortality and prevent senescence, with the two TMM pathways available being telomerase and alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT). Here, we show that AR-independent CRPC demonstrates an atypical ALT-like phenotype with variable telomerase expression and activity, whereas AR-dependent models lack discernible ALT hallmarks. In addition, AR-independent CRPC cells exhibited elevated levels of SLX4IP, a protein implicated in promoting ALT. SLX4IP overexpression in AR-dependent C4-2B cells promoted an ALT-like phenotype and telomere maintenance. SLX4IP knockdown in AR-independent DU145 and PC-3 cells led to ALT-like hallmark reduction, telomere shortening, and induction of senescence. In PC-3 xenografts, this effect translated to reduced tumor volume. HA15 in vivo Using an in vitro model of AR-independent progression, loss of AR in AR-dependent C4-2B cells promoted an atypical ALT-like phenotype in an SLX4IP-dependent manner. Insufficient SLX4IP expression diminished ALT-like hallmarks and resulted in accelerated telomere loss and senescence. IMPLICATIONS This study demonstrates a unique reliance of AR-independent CRPC on SLX4IP-mediated ALT-like hallmarks and loss of these hallmarks induces telomere shortening and senescence, thereby impairing replicative immortality.
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