Esophageal cancer is one of the most lethal of all neoplasms. During the last two decades, there have been significant changes in the epidemiology and treatment of esophageal cancer. The incidence of adenocarcinoma is increasing whereas that of squamous cancer is decreasing. Surgery, the mainstay of treatment of esophageal cancer, has been used with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy to improve prog...

Cervical cancer ranks among the top three cancer diagnoses in women worldwide. In the United States, the SEER Cancer Statistics Review identified cervical cancer as the third leading cause (following childhood cancers and testicular cancer) of average years of life lost per person dying of cancer for all races and both genders. Approximately one-third of cervical cancer patients develop disease...

Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) is a new generation modality which gives both functional and morphological information along with CT component performing anatomical imaging, in which positron emitting radioisotopes are used with the aim of functional imaging. PET/CT has been used in the staging and re-staging of lung cancer and also in the evaluation of solitary pulmon...

objective(s): the objective of this study was to evaluate the performance and utility of 99mtc hynic-toc planar scintigraphy and spect/ct in the diagnosis, staging and management of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (gpnets). methods: 22 patients (median age, 46 years) with histologically proven gastroentero-pancreatic nets underwent 99mtc hynic-toc whole body scintigraphy and region...

UNLABELLED Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer diagnosis worldwide. Early detection of bladder cancer is important, since up to 47% of bladder cancer-related deaths might be avoided. AIM To show our experience in determining the staging of bladder cancer with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), making comparison of stage accuracy with cont...

This paper describes the staging, imaging, treatment, and prognosis of renal cell carcinoma. Three case studies are presented on three separate patients with renal cell carcinoma. Each patient shows specific staging, imaging and treatment of renal cell carcinoma, but all demonstrate different metastases to other areas of the body. Each patient was at a higher stage of cancer, but depending on t...

Objective. A number of evidence-based guidelines for diagnosis and management of prostate cancer have been published. The aim of this study is to evaluate the adherence of Italian urologists to the guidelines concerning the preoperative imaging staging of prostate cancer. Methods. In October 2007 a multicentric observational perspective study called Multicentric Italian Report on Radical prosta...

PURPOSE To determine the appropriate use of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for preoperative staging of prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Literature review was performed by using the principles of evidence-based medicine and medical technology assessment. A decision analytic model was used to compare (a) the strategy that radical prostatectomy is performed on the basis of clinical stagin...

PURPOSE Oncologic outcomes following laparoscopic abdomino-perineal resection (APR) for distal rectal cancer are infrequently reported. This study aims to compare the long term outcomes between laparoscopic and open APR in distal rectal cancers. METHODS A retrospective review of all patients who underwent APR for distal rectal cancer from May 2001 to November 2009 was performed. RESULTS For...