Metastatic carcinoma from extragenital sites to the uterus, particularly endometrium, is rare and usually a sign of advanced disease. It necessary differentiate between metastatic primary tumours since treatment prognosis are entirely different. We discuss case 61-year-old woman who presented with postmenopausal bleeding due breast cancer endometrium. She had been diagnosed on tamoxifen for six...

INTRODUCTION The differential diagnosis of pulmonary nodules (PNs) includes metastases, lung cancers, infectious diseases, and scar tissue, among others. Because data regarding whether and when to perform a PN biopsy in patients with cancer are scarce, clinicians tend to assume that PNs are metastatic disease based solely on imaging. The current study evaluated the findings of PN biopsies in a ...

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) were added to the arsenal of clinical testing in 2004 for three cancer types: metastatic breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer. CTCs were found to be an independent prognostic indicator of survival for these three diseases. Multiple enrichment/isolation strategies have been developed and numerous assay applications have been performed using both single and poole...

A 62-year-old female with a history of anal gland adenocarcinoma presents with metastatic disease to the kidney with renal vein tumor thrombus extending into the inferior vena cava (IVC). Metastatic disease to the kidney with renal vein tumor thrombus is extremely rare with only several cases described in the literature. We present the first reported case of metastatic anal gland adenocarcinoma...

OBJECTIVE Metastatic disease occurs in a significant percentage of patients with renal cell carcinoma. Recent advances in systemic therapies for metastatic renal cell carcinoma are likely to have a significant effect on the way patients with advanced disease are imaged. These new therapies have shown a significant increase in progression-free survival. CONCLUSION Imaging is likely to play an ...

Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) involving the gastrointestinal tract as the sole site of metastatic disease is exceedingly rare. We report a patient with known cutaneous SCC that metastasized to regional lymph nodes who, after therapy, appeared to be disease free until a small metastatic lesion was identified on colonoscopy within a diverticular orifice. He was subsequently noted to ha...

Neoplasm is the cause of a double disease body, i.e. with two faces (Janus disease), which means both presence cancer cells and secondary disorders immune system function caused by them. The second possibility temporary decrease in immunity, e.g. influenza, revealing neoplastic disease. Neoplasms are induced genetic epigenetic factors (Fig. 1), giving different types mono- polyclonal metastases...

To assess the severity of illness of oncology patients, it is necessary to distinguish patients with a single primary tumor from patients with metastatic disease occurring at a secondary location remote from the primary site. We developed a ranked list of cancer groupings and an algorithm that could distinguish patients with primary and metastatic cancer even if no specific code for secondary c...

TO THE EDITOR: The retrospective analysis by Rusthoven et al on improved survival in men who have undergone prostate radiation in addition to androgen deprivation therapy brings to light one of the more recent ongoing controversies in the field of prostate cancer treatment: Do we subject men with metastatic cancer to definitive primary therapy? This area has gained a lot of interest because ret...

Leiomyosarcoma of the stomach is a very rare malignancy that was not distinguished from the more frequent gastrointestinal stromal tumors until early 2000s. Here we report on a case of a metastatic disease that developed in a 47-year-old man 2 years after he was diagnosed with the primary tumor and treated with curative surgical excision and adjuvant doxorubicin. The primary and metastatic lesi...