Cutaneous metastases (CM) from solid organ tumors have a reported incidence of 0.5% to 10%. They most often occur in breast, lung and kidney primaries. Often regarded as the ‘first sign silent visceral metastases,’ they are associated with poor prognosis. The concurrent has not been studied detail. A better understanding CM could mechanistic management implications. aim our study was determine ...

Objectives: To characterise the natural history of metastatic prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy (RP) in patients followed expectantly for rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) (noncastrate metastases). Methods: Cox proportional hazards analyses were used to assess predictors of survival among 95 patients who developed clinically detectable noncastrate metastases after RP. The initial...

In this retrospective pilot study, the feasibility of the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) as an imaging target for lymph node (LN) metastatic disease of urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) of the bladder was investigated. LN metastases and LNs without metastases of patients who underwent pelvic lymph node dissection because of muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) were used. Primary tumor...

Brain metastasis in non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is often considered as a terminal stage of advanced disease. Crizotinib is a small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for ALK-rearranged NSCLC patients. Herein, we conducted a retrospective study to explore how Crizotinib affects the control of brain metastases and the overall prognosis in advanced ALK-rearranged NSCLC patien...

INTRODUCTION Trastuzumab therapy significantly improves progression-free and overall survival in HER2-positive [HER2(+)] breast cancer (BC) patients. However, in most patients with HER2(+) metastatic BC, the disease progress occurred. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinicopathological risk factors for progression in HER2-positive breast cancer patients during trastuzumab therapy. M...

BACKGROUND Colorectal carcinomas were studied regarding early proof of liver metastases through determination of K-ras mutations. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy-seven colorectal carcinomas were investigated for the presence of point mutations in codon 12 and 13 of the K-ras gene, using single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis and direct sequencing. RESULTS Twenty-six carcinomas...

AIMS To investigate the expression of the imprinted oncofetal H19 gene in hepatic metastases derived from a range of human carcinomas and assess its prognostic value with the view of developing a DNA based treatment for such metastases. METHODS Non-radioactive in situ hybridisation for H19 RNA was performed on paraffin wax embedded sections of liver biopsies or partial hepatectomy specimens, ...

A consecutive series of 30 cases of extracranial medulloblastoma metastases in adults is analysed. The majority of the patients were males with a 3:1 male/female ratio. Bone was the most frequent site of metastases in adults (77%) and children (78%), followed by lymph nodes (33%) in both children and adults. Lung metastases were more common in adults (17%), but liver metastases occurred more fr...

Background We explored risk factors for bone metastasis (BMs) in colorectal cancer (CRC) to improve in early diagnosis and follow-up and to reduce bone metastasis. Methods With a retrospective analysis of 2066 patients with CRC treated in our institution from January 2006 to January 2015, we assessed high-risk variables associated with bone metastasis using univariate and multivariate analyse...

PURPOSE Breast cancer is one of the primary indications for cryopreservation and subsequent autotransplantation of ovarian tissue. The safety of this fertility preservation method remains questionable, as the presence of disseminated breast tumor cells cannot yet be excluded in the ovarian autografts. We explored the prevalence of ovarian metastases among young breast cancer patients and determ...