Sirtuin 1 is upregulated in a subset of hepatocellular carcinomas where it is essential for telomere maintenance and tumor cell growth

…, AWI Lo, KF To, AWH Chan, MHL Ng, CYS Ho… - Cancer research, 2011 - AACR
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly malignant tumor with a poor prognosis. Treatment
of HCC is complicated by the fact that the disease is often diagnosed at an advanced …

Specific epitopes of the structural and hypothetical proteins elicit variable humoral responses in SARS patients

SCS Chow, CYS Ho, TTY Tam, C Wu… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - jcp.bmj.com
Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an infectious disease which was
caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV). SARS has caused an outbreak in the world …

[HTML][HTML] Double Heterozygosity for Germline Mutations in Chinese Breast Cancer Patients

A Kwong, CYS Ho, CH Au, ESK Ma - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary About 5–10% of breast cancers are related to heredity. Very often, affected
individuals will carry only a single mutation defect in any of the hereditary breast and …

[HTML][HTML] Germline mutation in 1338 BRCA-negative Chinese hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancer patients: Clinical testing with a multigene test panel

A Kwong, VY Shin, J Chen, IWY Cheuk, CYS Ho… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Differences in the mutation spectrum across ethnicities suggest the importance of identifying
genes in addition to common high penetrant genes to estimate the associated breast cancer …

A Case Report of Germline Compound Heterozygous Mutations in the BRCA1 Gene of an Ovarian and Breast Cancer Patient

A Kwong, CYS Ho, VY Shin, CH Au, TL Chan… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The germline carrier of the BRCA1 pathogenic mutation has been well proven to confer an
increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Despite BRCA1 biallelic pathogenic mutations …

Mutation screening of germline TP53 mutations in high-risk Chinese breast cancer patients

A Kwong, VY Shin, CYS Ho, CH Au, TP Slavin… - BMC cancer, 2020 - Springer
Background Germline TP53 mutations are associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a severe
and rare hereditary cancer syndrome. Despite the rarity of germline TP53 mutations, the …

Germline PALB2 Mutation in High-Risk Chinese Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer Patients

A Kwong, VY Shin, CYS Ho, A Khalid, CH Au… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women globally.
BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations are most prevalent in hereditary breast cancer and are …

[HTML][HTML] Somatic mutation profiling in BRCA-negative breast and ovarian cancer patients by multigene panel sequencing

…, VY Shin, CYS Ho, CH Au, DNY Ho… - American journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Targeted therapeutic agents such as poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARP) inhibitors have
emerged in treating cancers associated with germline BRCA mutations. Recently studies …

Effect on Germline Mutation Rate in a High-Risk Chinese Breast Cancer Cohort after Compliance with The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) 2023 v …

A Kwong, CYS Ho, WP Luk, LH Fung, CH Au, ESK Ma - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines are testing criteria used to identify
high-risk individuals associated with an increased risk of breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and …

[PDF][PDF] Significance of circulating endothelial progenitor cells in hepatocellular carcinoma

JWY Ho, RWC Pang, C Lau, CK Sun, WC Yu… - …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This study evaluated the significance of circulating bone marrow‐derived endothelial
progenitor cells (EPCs) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a solid tumor with rich …