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EGFR and JAK2 were significant master gene biomarkers in invasive and noninvasive pituitary adenoma
- Pages: 4-14
- First Published: 30 January 2025

(A) Visualization of the interactions between upregulated and downregulated genes in invasive and non-invasive pituitary adenomas, highlighting the central role of EGFR and JAK2 as master gene biomarkers. (B) Expression density plots show the distribution of gene expression values after normalization, and volcano plots illustrate significant DEGs between invasive and non-invasive conditions. (C) Boxplots display the standard deviation across all normalized samples, ensuring consistent data preprocessing for downstream analysis.
Recent innovations in machine learning for skin cancer lesion analysis and classification: A comprehensive analysis of computer-aided diagnosis
- Pages: 15-40
- First Published: 17 February 2025

Skin cancer represents a significant health risk, underscoring the crucial need for early detection as a preventive measure. It can be difficult to determine a skin spot's potential hazard just by looking at it and feeling it, though. Recent research has examined early classification methods, including deep learning (DL) and computer vision, to address this issue. This article provides a comprehensive overview of methodologies and tools employed in skin cancer detection research over the last 6 years. The exploration encompasses the entire classification process, spanning data preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction, feature selection, and final classification. This article has investigated diverse datasets and utilized techniques such as DL and ML in conjunction with computer vision to improve diagnostic accuracy. Despite notable achievements, challenges persist due to the diverse nature of skin lesions. This study aims to critically analyze existing approaches for diagnosing skin cancer, highlighting unresolved issues and providing insights to guide future research in refining and advancing early categorization strategies.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Efficacy and safety of Brucea javanica oil soft capsules combined with oral chemotherapy for maintenance therapy in advanced gastric cancer
- Pages: 41-45
- First Published: 03 January 2025
Porous egg microparticles for controllable drug delivery and oncotherapy
- Pages: 46-53
- First Published: 06 August 2024

In this paper, we introduced egg-based porous microparticles for controllable drug delivery and oncotherapy. The interconnected porous structure endowed the microparticles with the capacity of loading and releasing sufficient drugs in a controllable way. In addition, it had been demonstrated that the particles with drugs loaded exerted tumor killing effect.
STUDY PROTOCOLS
Construction and application of a re-education program for elderly patients undergoing radiation therapy based on the Skinnerian teaching model
- Pages: 54-60
- First Published: 19 November 2024

This study is based on the Skinnerian teaching model and optimized through two rounds of the Delphi method to analyze the educational needs of elderly radiotherapy patients, develop re-educational program, and conduct real-time optimization. The evaluation criteria are the indicator importance scores and Kendall's coefficients of concordance. The results indicate that the re-education program developed in our study is scientifically reliable.