What To Do About Occult Metastases in Breast Cancer? Standards Shift, but Doubts Linger

What do Omani Women know about Breast Cancer Symptoms?

OBJECTIVES Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women worldwide. Studies to detect the awareness of breast cancer among Arab women are few and point to a lack of breast cancer knowledge among females. Early detection of breast cancer plays a leading role in reducing mortality rates and improving prognosis. This study aims to assess t...

Zosteriform Skin Metastases from Breast Cancer

Metastatic skin cancer is a rare complication of internal malignancies.  Patients who develop cutaneous metastases rarely present with a zosteriform distribution.  Herein, we describe a 65-year-old woman with a prior history of breast cancer in whom zosteriform metastases developed along her left T8-9 abdominal dermatomes.

Skin metastases in breast cancer: a review article

What To Do About Vitamins

book must have been produced under great pressure, errors in the text are conspicuously few (e.g., the listing of the Toxoplasmideae under the Fungi). Everything considered, this is an excellent book for anyone wishing to take stock of the present status of penicillin therapy. "If you are a typical Amencan," says Dr. Williams, author of this little book for the lay reader, "you are interested i...

Occult Breast Carcinoma Presenting as Gastrointestinal Metastases

Occult breast cancer has frequently been described as presenting as axillary lymph node metastases but rarely as gastrointestinal metastases, Varadarajan et al. (2007). In extremely rare situations, cancerous lesions identified in the gastrointestinal tract have been determined to be metastatic lesions from primary breast cancers, Taal et al. (2000). We report a case of an occult lobular adenoc...