We compare clinical behaviour of East-Indians and White-Canadians with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) treated at a Western institution within a uniform health care system.

Newly diagnosed OSCC patients who underwent postoperative (chemo-)radiotherapy (PORT/POCRT) between 2005 and 2017 were included. Data on ethnicity and other…[Read more]

The diversity of waterbirds is threatened, and haemosporidian parasite infection is considered one of the most important causative factors. However, to date, only a few studies focusing on specific parasite species have been carried out, which cannot reflect the general patterns at the community level. To test whether the reported haemosporidian…[Read more]

The classical factors for predicting prognosis currently cannot meet the developing requirements of individualized and accurate prognostic evaluation in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). With the rapid development of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies, genomic changes have been discovered. These sequencing data provide unprecedented…[Read more]

Particularly in humans, heteroplasmy plays an important role in the emergence of mitochondrial diseases and determines the success of the mitochondrial replacement therapy, a recent method that has been developed to cure mitochondrial diseases.Consumer acceptance of fruit is determined by size, flavour and ripeness. In this study we investigated…[Read more]