Background Surgery and chemotherapy use were studied among older women with early stage triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in a population-based cohort. Methods Women aged ?50 years unilateral (stage 1-3a) TNBC diagnosed 2014–2017 identified from English registration data. Information on surgery was linked Hospital Episode Statistics Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy datasets, respectively. Logist...

Oral myiasis, a rare condition caused by the infestation of live maggots in oral cavity, can present unique challenges immunocompromised individuals. This case report presents myiasis an adult undergoing chemotherapy. A 67-year-old female suffering from metastatic carcinoma ovary was chemotherapy treatment at time presentation. Prompt diagnosis and management, including larval removal, wound ca...

Background Bladder-sparing treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) with systemic chemotherapy plus transurethral resection of bladder tumors (TURBT) is increasingly seen in the literature -both in case series and subanalyses of patients who opt out of or are unfit for radical cystectomy (RC). Survival outcomes among these patients are often impressive, but these are typically small r...

Osteosarcoma is a tumour characterized by the production of osteoid by malignant cells. The incidence is approximately 1 to 3 million/year. The incidence is slightly higher in males. Onset can occur at any age; however, primary high grade osteosarcoma usually occurs in the second decade of life. Historically patients with osteosarcoma were treated with immediate wide or radical amputation. Desp...

BACKGROUND Peritoneal metastases remain an under addressed problem for which this review serves to investigate the efficacy of systemic chemotherapy and radical surgical treatments in this disease entity. METHODS The literature between 1995 and June 2009 was surveyed systematically through a review of published studies on the treatment outcomes of metastatic colorectal cancer to the peritoneu...

BACKGROUND A Krukenberg tumour (KT) is defined as an ovarian metastasis from a gastrointestinal adenocarcinoma and suggests a terminal condition. This study aimed to identify the prognostic factors affecting the survival of patients with KTs of colorectal origin who receive cytoreductive surgery. METHODS Medical records of patients who had received cytoreductive surgery and had been pathologi...

following failure of systemic chemotherapy, transarterial chemoembolization (tace) is an available method to control unresectable liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma (crc). the aim of present study was to evaluate the efficacy of chemoembolization for inoperable metastatic liver lesions from crc. forty-five crc patients with liver metastases resistant to systemic chemotherapy were enroll...