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Giving Voice to the Unheard: Perceptions, Practices & Beliefs About Breast Cancer and Screening Among Ethnic Minority Women From the MENA (Middle East & North Africa) Region in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Breast cancer is one of the major causes of death among women in Canada and globally. In Canada, screening has been found to be successful in decreasing morbidity and mortality (Canadian Cancer Society, 2015). Use of breast cancer screening services by immigrant women however is limited...
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Restoring Body Image after Breast Cancer through Exercise and Art Sculpture “RISE UP” after Breast Cancer: A Pilot Multi-Methods Study
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The purpose of this thesis was to explore and describe body image in survivors of breast cancer in the context of supportive care, with specific focus on resistance exercise training and art therapy. The overall purpose of this work was to inform current practice and offer an alternative approach...
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A Novel Comparative Analysis Approach to Personalize Chemotherapy Dose Calculation in Early Breast Cancer
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Background Worldwide, body surface area [BSA] is used to calculate chemotherapy dose. The BSA formula was originally developed in 1916, derived from height and weight, with no consideration of other patient characteristics. Most chemotherapy agents have a narrow therapeutic index and are...
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A Reversible Metabolic Stress-Sensitive Regulation of Collapsin Response Mediator Protein 2A Orchestrates Cytoskeletal Remodeling and EMT, Increasing Metastatic Potential in Cancer
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Cancer represents the second leading cause of death globally only after heart disease and is responsible for about 10 million deaths per year with a significant economic impact (WHO facts). Moreover, its prevalence is projected to increase over the following decades. Among all cancers, breast,...
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Active-β-catenin (ABC) Transcriptional Activity is Associated with and may Promote Invasive Phenotype in Osteosarcoma (OS)
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Osteosarcoma (OS) is an aggressive primary malignancy of the bone with the greater proportion of affected individuals being in the 10-30 years age range. The 5-year relative survival rates for patients with localized OS is 77% and 27% for patients with metastatic cancer. 15-20% of patients on...
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Assessing the Feasibility of Learning Biomedical Phenotype Patterns Using High-Throughput Omics Profiles
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A decade after the completion of the human genome project, the rapid advancement of the high-throughput measurement technologies has made omics (genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics) profiling feasible. The availability of such omics profiles has raised the hope for the...
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Binding, internalization, and transgene expression of an adenoviral vector retargeted to HER3/4
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Adenoviruses (Ads) have been well studied for use in cancer gene therapy. However, low levels of the primary receptor, coxsackie-adenovirus receptor (CAR), in tumor cells has been shown to be a factor in low transgene expression. To increase Ad infection of breast cancer cells we constructed a...
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Development of A Gadolinium-Based Nanotheranostics Platform for Irradiation Activatable MRI-Radiosensitization and Doxorubicin Release in Cancer Therapy
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The ultimate goal of this thesis research was to design, fabricate, and characterize an integrated nanotheranostics platform for activatable doxorubicin delivery and simultaneous MRI- radiosensitization for synergistic cancer therapy, targeting breast cancer treatment. As shown in the diagram,...
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Development of a Targeted Adenoviral Vector Expressing HSV-TK for use in Breast Cancer Gene Therapy and Analysis through Positron Emission Tomography
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While adenoviral (Ad) vectors are the most commonly used gene delivery vector for human gene therapy, improvements must be made to increase Ad specificity to tumors if they are to be used for cancer gene therapy. Our goal is to target adenoviral vectors to breast cancer (BrCa) cells to induce...
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Fall 2017
For cancer research, a powerful imaging modality for both preclinical (where the focus is on imaging small animals) and clinical (where the focus is on imaging human subjects) applications should be inexpensive, portable, noninvasive, safe, and capable of measuring a myriad of information....