A Primary Approach to Cancers of Unknown Primary

A primary approach to cancers of unknown primary.

Prediction of Primary Tumors in Cancers of Unknown Primary.

A cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a metastatic cancer for which standard diagnostic tests fail to identify the location of the primary tumor. CUPs account for 3-5% of cancer cases. Using molecular data to determine the location of the primary tumor in such cases can help doctors make the right treatment choice and thus improve the clinical outcome. In this paper, we present a new method for ...

Other Cancers Cancer of Unknown Primary Site 113

Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) site is a clinical syndrome that includes many types of advanced cancers. Patients are considered to have CUP if no anatomical primary site is identified after clinical evaluation. As diagnostic techniques improve, the spectrum of patients with CUP continues to evolve. Patients with CUP are common. The exact incidence is unknown because many of these patients are...

Transoral robotic approach to carcinoma of unknown primary.

BACKGROUND The management of carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) is one of the challenging conditions in head and neck oncologic surgery. Despite various diagnostic tools, the primary tumor site in more than half of cases remains unidentified. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and efficiency of utilizing transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for the diagnosis and treatment of CU...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...