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Cancer of unknown primary
Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) ranges within top 10 cancers in both incidence and mortality. As primary identification is crucial to choosing treatment, guidelines on CUP emphasize the diagnostic strategy. Whether guidelines are complied with, or if they are indeed helpful, is however unclear. We compared procedures performed in suspected CUP patients with recommendations of national guideline...
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Copyright © 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society Cancer of unknown primary site is a heterogeneous group of cancers for which the anatomical site of origin remains occult after detailed investigations.1,2 The emergence of sophisticated imaging, immunohistochemical testing, and molecular-profiling tools has influenced our approach to unknown primary cancer, although it has also increased the ambig...
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A 37-year-old man is initially seen with a 4-month history of a gradually enlarging, painless rightsided neck mass. He denies any otalgia, dysphagia, odynophagia, hoarseness, fever, night sweats, or weight loss. His medical history is significant only for mild COPD, and he has smoked two packs per day for 20 years. He is married and is a right-handed police officer. Examination of the head and ...
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BACKGROUND Metastatic cancer of unknown primary site occupies 0.5-10% of all diagnosed cancer patients and includes various tumors with diverse responses to systemic chemotherapy. Adenocarcinoma of unknown primary site (ACUPS), the most common subtype, has no standard treatment, rarely responds to conventional treatment and has a poor survival rate. METHODS The retrospective study was perform...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.281.6254.1566-a