Histologic and immunohistochemical features of oncocytic papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have not been fully elucidated. The author herein report a case of oncocytic papillary RCC (OPRCC). A 71-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and diabetic nephropathy was found to have a small right renal tumor by CT. He had been treated with hemodialysis for chronic renal failure for 10 years. A nephre...

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death. The current modality of diagnosis, the measurement of serum PSA, not only suffers from lack of specificity, but does not distinguish clinical cases in which current treatment measures would be most successful, i.e. aggressive, life-threatening tumors. A multiplexed MS methodology, selected reaction monitoring-MS/MS coupled with stable ...

BACKGROUND Early detection of prostate cancer (CaP), the most prevalent cancer and the second-leading cause of death in men, has proved difficult, and current detection methods are inadequate. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing is a significant advance for early diagnosis of patients with CaP. CONTENT PSA is produced almost exclusively in the prostate, and abnormalities of this organ are...