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Di Fiore R, Suleiman S, Ellul B, O'Toole SA, Savona-Ventura C, Felix A, Napolioni V, Conlon NT, Kahramanoglu I, Azzopardi MJ, Dalmas M, Calleja N, Brincat MR, Muscat-Baron Y, Sabol M, Dimitrievska V, Yordanov A, Vasileva-Slaveva M, von Brockdorff K, Micallef RA, Kubelac P, Achimaș-Cadariu P, Vlad C, Tzortzatou O, Poka R, Giordano A, Felice A, Reed N, Herrington CS, Faraggi D, Calleja-Agius J. GYNOCARE Update: Modern Strategies to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Rare Gynecologic Tumors—Current Challenges and Future Directions. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Jan 27;13(3):493. doi: 10.3390/cancers13030493. PMID: 33514073; PMCID: PMC7865420. Click here to read the full text.

Sabol M, Calleja-Agius J, Di Fiore R, Suleiman S, Ozcan S, Ward MP, Ozretić P. (In)Distinctive Role of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Common and Rare Ovarian Cancers. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Oct 9;13(20):5040. doi: 10.3390/cancers13205040. PMID: 34680193; PMCID: PMC8534192. Click here to read the full text.

Di Fiore R, Suleiman S, Pentimalli F, O'Toole SA, O'Leary JJ, Ward MP, Conlon NT, Sabol M, Ozretić P, Erson-Bensan AE, Reed N, Giordano A, Herrington CS, Calleja-Agius J. Could MicroRNAs Be Useful Tools to Improve the Diagnosis and Treatment of Rare Gynecological Cancers? A Brief Overview. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Apr 7;22(8):3822. doi: 10.3390/ijms22083822. PMID: 33917022; PMCID: PMC8067678. Click here to read the full text.

Yordanov A, Kostov S, Slavchev S, Strashilov S, Konsoulova A, Calleja-Agius J, Di Fiore R, Suleiman S, Kubelac P, Vlad C, Achimas-Cadariu P, Vasileva-Slaveva M. Adenosquamous Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix - Impact of Histology on Clinical Management. Cancer Manag Res. 2021 Jun 23;13:4979-4986. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S311326. PMID: 34188551; PMCID: PMC8236277. Click here to read the full text.

Di Fiore R, Suleiman S, Felix A, O'Toole SA, O'Leary JJ, Ward MP, Beirne J, Sabol M, Ozretić P, Yordanov A, Vasileva-Slaveva M, Kostov S, Nikolova M, Said-Huntingford I, Ayers D, Ellul B, Pentimalli F, Giordano A, Calleja-Agius J. An Overview of the Role of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Human Choriocarcinoma. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Jun 17;22(12):6506. doi: 10.3390/ijms22126506. PMID: 34204445; PMCID: PMC8235025. Click here to read the full text.

Subbannayya Y, Di Fiore R, Urru SAM, Calleja-Agius J. The Role of Omics Approaches to Characterize Molecular Mechanisms of Rare Ovarian Cancers: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives. Biomedicines. 2021 Oct 15;9(10):1481. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines9101481. PMID: 34680597; PMCID: PMC8533212. Click here to read the full text.

Di Fiore R, Suleiman S, Drago-Ferrante R, Felix A, O’Toole SA, O’Leary JJ, Ward MP, Beirne J, Yordanov A, Vasileva-Slaveva M, Subbannayya Y, Pentimalli F, Giordano A, Calleja-Agius J. LncRNA MORT (ZNF667-AS1) in Cancer—Is There a Possible Role in Gynecological Malignancies? International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021; 22(15):7829. Click here to read the full text.

Pisani D, Calleja-Agius J, Di Fiore R, O'Leary JJ, Beirne JP, O'Toole SA, Felix A, Said-Huntingford I. Epithelioid Trophoblastic Tumour: A Case with Genetic Linkage to a Child Born over Seventeen Years Prior, Successfully Treated with Surgery and Pembrolizumab. Current Oncology 2021 Dec 13;28(6):5346-5355. Click here to read the full text.

Di Fiore, R., Agius, A., Camenzuli, C., Suleiman, S., Calleja-Agius, J. & Savona-Ventura, C. (2022). Gonadoblastoma : a brief report. Annals of Research in Oncology, 2(1), 70-75. Click here to read the full text.

Di Fiore, R., Suleiman, S., Drago-Ferrante, R., Subbannayya, Y, Pentimalli, F., Giordano, A., Calleja-Agius, J., Cancer Stem Cells and Their Possible Implications in Cervical Cancer: A Short Review. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23(9), 5167. Click here to read the full text.

Drago-Ferrante R, Di Fiore R, Karouia F, Subbannayya Y, Das S, Aydogan Mathyk B, Arif S, Guevara-Cerdán AP, Seylani A, Galsinh AS, Kukulska W, Borg J, Suleiman S, Porterfield DM, Camera A, Christenson LK, Ronca AE, Steller JG, Beheshti A, Calleja-Agius J. Extraterrestrial Gynecology: Could Spaceflight Increase the Risk of Developing Cancer in Female Astronauts? An Updated Review. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Jul 5;23(13):7465. Click here to read the full text.

Tripac I, Agius JC, Harasani K, Kubelac P, Stratan V, Tutuianu V, Sitnic V, Dobrovolskaia A. Status of the Sentinel Lymph Node in Patients with Endometrial Cancer Stage I-II. Chirurgia (Bucur). 2022 Dec;117(6):689-697. doi: 10.21614/chirurgia.2786. PMID: 36584061. Click here to read the full text.

Yordanov A, Kostov S, Kornovski Y, Slavchev S, Ivanova Y, Calleja-Agius J, Di Fiore R, Suleiman S, Piciu A, Hasan I, Vasileva-Slaveva M. Endometrial carcinoma in patients under 40 years of age: insights from the bulgarian cancer registry. Ginekologia Polska. 2022 Oct 10. doi: 10.5603/GP.a2022.0106.  Click here to read the full text.
 
Harasani K., Conlon N.T., Darmanin S., Čelebić A., Kubelac M.P., Lala A.,  Calleja-Agius J. Rapid systematic review of clinical trials on pharmacological therapies for rare gynecological cancers. Annals of Research in Oncology Vol. 2 (No. 4) 2022 December, 246-258. doi: 10.48286/aro.2022.57. Click here to read the full text.
 
Yordanov, A.; Vasileva-Slaveva, M.; Galai, N.; Faraggi, D.; Kubelac, M.P.; Tripac-Iacovleva, I.; Calleja, N.; Di Fiore, R.; Calleja-Agius, J. Cancer of the Cervix in Bulgaria: Epidemiology of a Crisis. Healthcare 2023, 11, 318. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11030318. Click here to read the full text.
 
Di Fiore R, Suleiman S, Calleja-Agius J. CD133 as biomarker and therapeutic target in gynecologic malignancies. Book chapter accepted  for publication in the the book series Interdisciplinary Cancer Research edited by Prof Nima Rezaei (Springer Nature, 2023). Click here to read more.
 
Agius A, Camenzuli C, Pisani D, Di Fiore R, Vella A, De Gaetano J, Vaitkiene D, Martins N, Calleja-Agius J (2023). A case report of HPV negative small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix: A rare but fatal mix.
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