Surgical therapy of a colon carcinoma does not usually affect the patient’s quality of life in the medium or long term, if the tumor does not involve adjacent organs and there are no postoperative complications. In rectal cancer, however, dysfunctions such as anal continence disorders occur in quite a few patients following anterior resection, and particularly low anterior resection (LAR) with ...

Abstract Background Primary signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) of the prostate is a rare and aggressive subtype adenocarcinoma with poor prognosis, only approximately 60 cases reported worldwide. Case presentation A 62-year-old man presented acute urinary retention hematuria, after year’s history lower tract symptoms. Digital rectal examination revealed an irregular hard prostate. Flexible cysto...

Local recurrence following curative resection of rectal carcinoma is still a major problem. Recurrence rates of more than 30% have been reported in the past, but total mesorectal excision has reduced the incidence to considerably less than 10%. Still, the severe morbidity associated with local recurrence demands additional efforts to guarantee local control. Moreover, it may be hoped that a red...

Aim Since anatomical and geometric variations occur with every fraction, planning, and dose optimization is necessary for every fraction of high-dose rate intracavitary brachytherapy of carcinoma cervix. In this study, we have tried to quantify the differences in doses to organs at risk (OAR) for each fraction of brachytherapy. Methods and Materials One hundred and seventy computed tomography...

This study compares the dosimetry of high-dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy (HDR-ICBT) performed with and without general anesthesia/spinal anesthesia (GA/SA) in patients with cervical carcinoma. We retrospectively retrieved the records of 138 HDR-ICBT applicator insertions performed in 46 patients: 69 performed with GA/SA (anesthesia group known as AG) in 23 patients, and 69 performed with...

BACKGROUND Prostate cancer (PCa) originating from the prostate base may intrude into the urinary bladder and may be misdiagnosed as bladder cancer. In this retrospective study, we reviewed the clinic data on PCa cases which were initially misdiagnosed as bladder cancer in order to identify diagnostic methods that would allow a better differential diagnosis for PCa. METHODS Out of a total of 4...

breast cancer is the most common cancer in women except skin cancer. the common metastatic sites include lymph node, lung, liver and bone. however, metastasis to the bladder is extremely rare. to our knowledge, this is the first case of breast cancer metastasis to urinary bladder in jordan which is reported. nine years after the initial diagnosis of lobular breast carcinoma, the patient suffere...

This is a concise letter on the observation of patient with large bilateral asymmetric ulcerative cutaneous metastasis from rectal carcinoma.

Demographics and mechanisms were analyzed in prospectively maintained level one trauma center database 1990-2012. Among 2,693 trauma laparotomies, 113 (4.1%) presented bladder lesions; 51.3% with penetrating injuries (n = 58); 41.3% (n = 24) with rectal injuries, males corresponding to 95.8%, mean age 29.8 years; 79.1% with gunshot wounds and 20.9% with impalement; 91.6% arriving the emergence ...

The aim of the current study was to evaluate the optimal coplanar technique for conformal radiotherapy of prostate cancer. Twelve inoperable patients with prostatic carcinoma were examined. Five different techniques with three-, four- and six-fields were applied for treatment of prostate and seminal vesicles with or without lymph nodes. Treatment techniques were compared by using rectum, bladde...