TRPS1 as possible unique biomarker for triple-negative? Investigations on cellular biology and mechanisms
The mammary gland is a complex tissue comprising a variety of cell types. Their proper functioning is crucial for the health of the breast. Breast cancer is the widest condition affecting breast health and can be categorized as estrogen receptor (ER)/progesterone receptor (PR)-positive luminal, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive, or triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) types…
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Goodbye, 2023, you can go f-yourself!
I know that I've been off most of last year and I wanted to give a little explanation.
TLDR for people who don't want to read my many paragraphs - My mom had cancer but is in full recovery now. Please get your regular mammograms and do your breast exams!
Anyways, at the end of February, my mom found out that she had stage two triple-negative breast cancer that was in one breast and in one lymph node. For those that don't know triple-negative is super aggressive and once it gets into the lymph node, it can be very bad because it can travel anywhere in the body so they must treat it like it's everywhere. It's also not hormone driven, so there aren't a lot of options for treatment.
The doctors immediately started chemo every week through July. They broke it up into two cycles. The first cycle was rough, but she got through it with minimal side effects. The second cycle was awful. She wanted to quit after the first round, but she gathered up the courage to keep going back for the next three treatments. It was really hard watching her have to go through all of that.
After she recovered from the chemo for a few weeks in August, she had a double mastectomy. They had offered to just take out what was left of the lump and the lymph node, but my mom said that she'd had no use for them anymore at 70-something and would rather not have the worry of the cancer coming back. I really can't blame her. It had been year after year of worry until it finally happened.
Finally in the beginning of September, we had gotten the amazing news that the chemo treatments with the double mastectomy had gotten all the cancer, even the lymph nodes came back clear. She completed 5 weeks of daily radiation in October and now she only has two more treatments of Keytruda before she'll be given a clean bill of health.
The only reason that she's had such a positive outcome is because they caught it so early. She always gets her yearly mammogram and quite frequently had to go back for a second look after. Please, everyone make sure that you get yours done regularly.
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So I finished all 16 rounds of chemo and now I’m first case on Monday 12/4 for bilateral nipple sparking mastectomies, right port removal, and bilateral expander placement with a cellular dermis.
I Wish this wasn’t happening.
I cry a lot. And my husband won’t even speak to me for the past 5 months.
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I don't mind Lethal Company's dev taking a break, bro this game's fine as is, needs some work, but otherwise this game's simply good, which is genuinely impressive in modern times.
My biggest fear is the seemingly unknown wider problem, a two-fer, Modding and Desync.
See, presently there's like 3 "Bigger Lobby" mods, all 3 incompatible with each other. This makes playing with randoms a mere possible chance. But it gets worse. You can get more mods than just that, like the Skinwalker mod, or a TV mod, or poster mods.
Not every mod requires everyone to have it, but even then, if your files are a single byte off, that can utterly desync you, or put you in the wall.
What Lethal Company Truly Needs is this:
Mod Support in the form of file sharing like in Gmod servers. You join, you download the mods for that game, ya leave and they disable or delete themselves.
I want to join random lobbies that are modded to hell and back. The game's fine on it's own, yes, but you can get an avalanche of content from it simply by adding a few QoL mods that clearly were intentional design that I simply don't vibe with.
For example, 4 players is clearly the intended design, and that's perfectly fine, but I'm in a server with like at least 10 people, we all wanna play LC together. Or the radio mod that lets you speak while at a terminal, or the mod that removes the mask from the model of a fake player (genuinely should've been base game)
Lemme put it to you this way if it still doesn't click: You open the game, open the server browser, and if the host labels their server, it'll tell you what biggerlobby mod they're using. If they didn't, you have absolutely no clue what mod(s) they're using. This means scrolling a poorly made server list, clicking every server, being told you can't join due to different files between host and client, or joining, but being stuck inside a wall. That's what finding a random lobby is like now, and it could be fixed via downloading the mods when you join
Problem here is that, I dunno how the hell you safely do that. Ya can't make it so people download files directly from the client's harddrive because you could easily sneak files in there, and not to be rude but I don't think a game like this would handle such a concept well. Which is why I say just add Steam Workshop as a middleground, then work on the server browser, make it so knowing what mods isn't as important as joining the game.
Does the game need more features, levels, enemies, and items? Sure, to some degree, but what it needs is to ensure the community doesn't splinter as soon as possible, is a mod synchronisation of some kind. Otherwise this game will run into some large, unfixable problems.
If ya'll played Arma 2's Day-Z mod, you know exactly what I'm talking about, just to a far, far smaller degree:
Right now, no one has attachment to either of the 3 bigger lobby mods, but only one is used more than the other 2. If that mod adds a feature, say, cosmetics, and adds another feature ontop of that, and another, and none of those are in the other 2 mods, or base game, then an attachment will be made, and any changes to the game feels like forced downgrades to that mod, you'll constantly be fighting to make the game be like the modded experiences of the biggest modding base, and that can make people bitter from all angles, it removes the personal touch of the game as well, which is why I still think having bigger lobbies and a normal difficulty mode by default is best in this case, get the intended experience and the fun additions.
Mod Sync. Seriously think it worth being the very next update. Otherwise this game's future is already in jeopardy and every update increases the problems by outdating mods, seemingly for no good reason to some. While the one dev takes a perfectly fine break, hundreds of mod creators are steadily at work to immedietely outdate the game for most people. Just...put the plug on that and fix it before it floods.
Seriously though there needs to be some cohesion, and the dumbshit "thunderstore" has got to GO. Who the hell has a modding website that doesn't have pictures of said mod? A website that wants you to install it's mod installer to collect data on you.
Heavily suggest using Steam Workshop so people can download the most popular collections, it's the simplest band-aid solution to a long-term currently bubbling problem. Really just don't want to see this fanbase splinter off and make the random lobby problem even worse where some mod devs make certain mods "incompatible" due to a feud they had that's uninvolved with everything.
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real post: are any of the freeware locally-run ocr libraries any good yet? i have pdfs that i want to derasterize but not unless the error rate isn’t nearly nonzero
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Pollen-powered Delivery
Spring is a beautiful time of year as flowers start to bloom again. But for some, it spells trouble as hay fever goes into overdrive. While pesky pollen may be irritating for some, now it could be lifesaving for others – specifically those with a certain type of breast cancer. Triple-negative breast cancer makes up around 10–15% of all breast cancer cases and is difficult to treat as it’s missing three receptors that cancer therapeutics usually target. Studies suggest that the best way to treat this type of breast cancer is through chemotherapy, but combining that with the delivery of oxygen. This is where pollen (pictured) comes in as researchers showed it could be a useful way to deliver both chemotherapy with its spiky exterior, and oxygen due to its hollow centre – which can be released in a controlled manner using ultrasound – to the cancer cells simultaneously and help the treatments work better.
Written by Sophie Arthur
Image from work by Baojie Wen and colleagues
Department of Ultrasound, Institute of Translational Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medicine School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in Advanced Science, May 2023
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