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Tests For Carcinoma Type Of Cancer - Articles
The risk posed by ductal carcinoma in patients with prostate cancer
by
Dr. Arnon Krongrad
Posted
Thu 07 Jan 2010 12:00am
extraprostatic extension.”
This paper by Samaratunga et al. addresses the risk posed by ductal carcinoma based on data from 268 consecutive patients who had radical prostatectomies as a curative procedure for treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer. Ductal carcinoma in a patient with prostate cancer is variation of the common and garden “acinar
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Votrient for bladder cancer and urothelial carcinoma.
by
Mark Levin
Posted
Mon 07 Mar 2011 4:54pm
Votrient is a multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor and it is currently approved for renal cell carcinoma. To my knowledge there are no published studies supporting its use for urothelial cancer. An ongoing Phase-II trial Pazopanib ( Votrient ) for metastatic urothelial cancer has generated promising but very preliminary early results
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Is basal cell carcinoma really malignant?
by
pathologystudent
Posted
Mon 31 Jan 2011 11:22pm
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These characteristics are not present in every kind of cancer; and even within one particular tumor, they are not present in all of the tumor cells! While malignant tumors are “clonal” (meaning... that you really can’t tell what the heck kind of tissue it is). Benign tumors tend to be more well-differentiated; malignant tumors tend to be less well-differentiated. Anaplasia
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“Melanoma, carcinoma, some kind of -noma…”
by
pathologystudent
Posted
Tue 13 Oct 2009 10:04pm
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Malignant tumors also usually have the -oma designation at the end. However, there are a couple additions depending on the type of tissue in which the malignancy arises. Malignancies....) are designated sarcomas. So: an adenocarcinoma is a malignant tumor of glandular cells, a squamous cell carcinoma is a malignant tumor arising in squamous cells, a chondrosarcoma
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Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Biomarkers for Squamous Cell Carcinomas
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nih.gov
Posted
Tue 15 Jun 2010 5:00pm
in over 30 years. New treatments and diagnostics for early detection are needed to improve patient survival and quality of life for this these types of cancers.
Scientists... spontaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Cell Cycle 2007 Jun 1:6(11):1360-1366. [ PubMed abs ]
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma-Find out if you should be screened!
by
rickisjourney
Posted
Mon 24 May 2010 12:00am
years. The reason for this increase could be the increase in the number of Americans with viral hepatitis, which is known to cause hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common kind... this webcast to learn more about the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer. http://www.orlive.com/nyp/videos/hepatocellular-carcinoma1
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Mucinous bronchioloalveolar carcinoma of lung and ALK mutation
by
Mark Pool, MD
Posted
Mon 19 Jul 2010 9:06pm
Last month I received a generous note from a patient who responded to a previous post on molecular markers in lung cancer from the USCAP 2010 meeting. I made the statement that "every adenocarcinoma should be tested for EGFR mutation (with the exception of mucinous ACa/BAC which are always KRAS mutants)." This patient's experience should
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