Odds ratio

May 7, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Megan Best |Odds ratio

Tumor mutation profiling (MP) is increasingly used to guide therapeutic care in oncology. However, knowledge of the meaning of genetic variation is still accruing and MP is still commonly undertaken within the research context. This often requires obtaining access to samples previously excised during clinical care. Tissue samples are stored in a variety of settings, including by both publicly and privately funded entities.

Jul 4, 2023 | thefreelibrary.com | Odds ratio

Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic disease caused by infection with larval cysts of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium. Serosurveys are crucial tools for understanding the epidemiology of T. solium infection and populations at risk for neurocysticercosis. However, even in highly disease-endemic communities, concurrent neuroimaging reveals that few T. solium-seropositive neurocysticercosis patients have viable cysts at any given time (1,2).