Clinical Oncology Week articles from February 2003

Clinical Oncology Week archives from February 2003

Doxorubicin/docetaxel sequence may be active first-line treatment of metastasis.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Spain recently conducted a study "to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity profile for sequential administration of doxorubicin and docetaxel as first-line chemotherapy in metastatic breast...

Second-intention healing yields good cosmetic, functional results.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "partial-thickness defects involving the vermilion and mucosa of the lip are difficult to repair surgically. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the...

Elimination of biopsies possible with real time diagnosis by scanning microscopy.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Real time, near-infrared confocal laser scanning microscopy may provide a way to diagnose basal cell carcinoma in vivo and might potentially eliminate the need for invasive diagnostic biopsies in the...

Independent component analysis may help identify lesion morphology.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A report from the United States describes "an application of independent component analysis (ICA) for the detection and characterization of breast lesions in dynamic contrast enhanced MRI." "The...

Rapid spectrophotometric method developed to measure glutathione S-transferase.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from France, "glutathione S-transferases (GST) are a family of polymorphic enzymes responsible for the metabolism of a broad range of xenobiotics including carcinogens and...

Incomplete resection provides significantly worse prognosis.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Germany "report a prospective phase II study of patients with disseminated peritoneal carcinomatosis and symptomatic disease, in whom the peritoneal metastases were resected. From 1995...

Stereotactic radiosurgery surpasses microsurgery by obviating neuropathy risk.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "two major treatment options are available for patients with acoustic neuroma: microsurgery and radiosurgery. Our objective was to compare these...

Superficial bladder cancer treated with macrophage-activated killer cells.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from France, "we assessed the efficacy and safety of adoptive immunotherapy administered to 17 patients with TaGIII or recurrent TaGII superficial bladder cancer following...

Piceatannol suppresses NF-kappa B activation induced by inflammatory agents.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "Piceatannol is an anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, and antiproliferative stilbene that has been shown to interfere with the cytokine signaling...

Former WebMD executive producer joins NewsRx.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A former WebMD executive producer and medical editor has joined Atlanta-based NewsRx, along with three board-certified editors. Dominique Walton Brooks, MD, with WebMD until 2001, will serve as...

Long-term use of continuous, combined hormone replacement therapy increases risk.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has increased in the United States over the past 2 decades in response to reports of longterm health benefits. A relationship between HRT and breast cancer risk has...

Mitotic activity index independent prognostic factor for relapse free survival.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Netherlands, "at the St. Gallen meeting of 2001 it was agreed to select high risk patients for adjuvant systemic therapy by: lymph node status, tumor size, age,...

Oral contraceptives may increase risk in BRCA1 but not BRCA2 mutation carriers.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Canada, "oral contraceptive use has been associated with an increase in the risk of breast cancer in young women. We examined whether this association is seen in women at high...

Preoperative assessment MR imaging unnecessary when mammography, sonography used.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Germany, "the purposes of our study were to compare the diagnostic value of whole breast sonography and MR imaging as adjunctive techniques to mammography and to...

Recurrence treated by brachytherapy following lumpectomy can preserve the breast.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a recent report, researchers in Austria conducted a study "to perform and assess the effectiveness of local excision of recurrent tumor followed by postoperative pulse dose rate (PDR) brachytherapy....

Spiral-shaped ectocervical brush is as good as biopsy punch in diagnosis.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in the United States conducted a study "to compare a new spiral shaped tissue sampling brush with a standard cervical punch biopsy. "Before large loop excision of the transformation...

Higher unexpected morbidity found following radiotherapy.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Denmark conducted a study "to provide longitudinal data on urologic morbidity after radiotherapy and brachytherapy for cervical carcinoma. "Five year longitudinal urologic morbidity...

N-butyl cyanoacrylate used successfully to fix catheter tip in arterial infusion.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The purpose of our study was to evaluate the usefulness of adding n-butyl cyanoacrylate to microcoils to fix the catheter tip in percutaneous implantation of a port-catheter system for hepatic arterial...

Early detection using methylation status of p16 using methylation-specific PCR.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Assays based on the molecular detection of genetic changes in serum have been shown as potential diagnostic tools for colorectal cancer. We examined the methylation status of p16 in colorectal...

Antimicrotubule agent cryptophycin 52 induces apoptosis multiple ways.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Recent research from the United States "assessed the ability of cryptophycin 52 (LY355703), a novel antimicrotubule, to induce growth arrest and apoptosis in prostate cancer cell lines and investigated...

Stratification of cancers possible by quantification of specific transcripts.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "This study was designed to characterize the expression profiles of nine bladder cancer cell lines (T24, J82, 5637, HT1376, RT4, SCaBER, TCCSUP, UMUC-3, and HT1197) using cDNA microarrays (8976 genes...

Acute exercise produces all growth and antigrowth gene expression, including p53.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "to further understand molecular mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle hypertrophy, expression profiles of translationally and transcriptionally...

Glutamate transporter inhibitors modulate doxorubicin activity.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Japan, "Dihydrokainate, a glutamate transporter inhibitor, was previously found to be a useful modulator of antitumor activity of doxorubicin (DOX). ...

Monoclonal against a TNF receptor fights autoimmune disease and lymphadenopathy.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "humans and mice deficient in Fas, a tumor necrosis factor (TNF)receptor family member, cannot induce apoptosis of autoreactive cells, and consequently...

Analysis of death kinetics in X-irradiated cells shows mid-S phase weakness.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The purpose of this study was to quantify the modes and kinetics of cell death for EJ30 human bladder carcinoma cells irradiated in different phases of the cell cycle. Asynchronous human bladder...

B-10 partition ratios as component in protocols involving p-boronophenylalanine.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "Rat 9L gliosarcoma cells infiltrating the normal brain have been shown previously to accumulate only similar to 30% as much boron as the intact...

Cure probability less sensitive to infusion duration, drug specificity changes.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "Motivated by the recent development of highly specific agents for brain tumors, we develop a mathematical model of the spatio-temporal dynamics of a brain...

Biodegradable nanoparticles for tumor-targeted delivery of tamoxifen.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "To increase the local concentration of tamoxifen in estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer, we have developed and characterized nanoparticle...

Hormone therapy is effective alternative to chemotherapy.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results from two landmark studies, both published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, show that hormonal treatment with goserelin (Zoladex), alone or in combination with the antiestrogen tamoxifen, is...

Magnolol has the ability to induce apoptosis in tumor cells.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Japan, "We previously found that multiple intraperitoneal administration of magnolol from Magnolia obovata inhibited tumor metastasis and growth in vivo, and that the...

Performance of toxicity reporting system may improve patient safety.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "Prospective clinical trials are the gold standard for evidence-based methodology used to support changes in the practice of medicine. "Clinical...

One base founder mutation is cause of hereditary nonpolyposis in Ashkenazi Jews.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is caused by mutations in the mismatch-repair genes. We report here the identification and characterization of a founder mutation in MSH2 in the...

Human papillomavirus oncoproteins E6 and E7 function to resist apoptosis.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The oncogenic potential of high risk human papillomaviruses can be mainly attributed to two small proteins called E6 and E7. Even though these oncoproteins have a low molecular size, they are highly...

Deletions of Fas gene in death and transmembrane domains block apoptosis.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Nasal natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma (NL) frequently coexpresses Fas (Apo-1/CD95) and Fas ligand (FasL), but the tumor cells seldom undergo apoptosis. To determine the reason for failure of...

Less 11 beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 may be result of malignant cells.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Germany, "11beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 (11beta-HSD1) has been identified as a major detoxification enzyme of one of the most potent tobacco smoke-derived...

PCR can detect micrometastases, patients with early recurrence, poor survival.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Germany, the "cure for ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas is restricted to resectable tumors, but survival after surgery is still poor. Despite apparently curative...

Use of clinical, histological factors will assist design of treatment strategies.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The best treatment of malignant parotid tumors still remains to be defined, and a better knowledge about the tumor features that predict the treatment result is needed," researchers in Denmark report....

Hemolytic uremic syndrome can be associated, also may be presenting symptom.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from England, "The authors report four cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in association with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate. "All patients were...

Seizures most frequent in patients with astrocytomas, metastatic melanomas.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Austria, "epileptic seizures are common in patients with cerebral metastases as well as in patients with primary brain tumors. In cancer patients without primary brain...

Patterns of Wilms tumor, soft tissue sarcoma show birth-related clustering.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The etiology of most childhood solid tumors (other than central nervous system [CNS] tumors) is unclear. To investigate whether certain environmental exposures may be involved, we have analyzed for...

Age differences are found for human papillomavirus type and prevalence.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "In a collection of 173 cervical adenocarcinomas, the prevalence of HPV in relation to the age of women and the distribution of the various oncogenic types of HPV were evaluated. The tumor material was...

The neutropenic diet may reduce opportunistic infections, more study needed.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "Despite improved survival of children with cancer, opportunistic infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in this...

Malignancy is diagnostically predictable using three blood test results.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Denmark, "the objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical value of an elevated platelet count and other routine laboratory tests for predicting malignancy in patients...

Two degradation enzymes elevated before adrenalectomy; one lowered after.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Adrenal gland as a major source of enkephalins on the periphery can be affected by a rare adrenal gland tumor, adrenal pheochromocytoma. It has been demonstrated that this tumor might be associated...

Malignant transformation is demonstrated in prostate epithelial cells.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "although several epidemiologic studies show an association between arsenic exposure and prostate cancer, it is still unknown whether human prostate...

Cytochrome P4501B1 is induced by nonortho-substituted polychlorinated biphenyls.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The effects of 12 nonortho-substituted polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners on the induction of human cytochrome P450 1B1 (CY1B1), an estradiol 4-hydroxylase, were investigated in MDA-MB-231...

Postmenopausal risk is increased with higher percent body fat and weight gain.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Germany, "high BMI is a well known risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer. There have been some reports of excess risk in association with weight gain and WHR, but...

IL-2 receptor upregulation by arginine butyrate increases DAB(389)IL-2 toxicity.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "DAB(389)IL-2 (ONTAK) is a fusion protein consisting of the ADP-ribosyltransferase and membrane translocating domains of native diphtheria toxin and...

Flow cytometry can evaluate residual disease by measuring BCD5(+) cells.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study from France "described a new flow cytometric analysis using quadruple labelling with anti-CD19, CD20, CD5, CD79b monoclonal antibodies and sequential gating." The authors "determined a...

Vitamin D-3 metabolites and adriamycin act through different pathways.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The common features of biological activity displayed by vitamin D family members and adriamycin suggest the possibility of synergistic effects of the combination of these compounds. Until now, the...

Post-replicating mismatch gene polymorphism found only in some lymphomas.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Ecuador, "given the importance of mismatch repairing genes in keeping the genetic stability in cells, any alterations in their structure or function could generate instability...

Chemotherapy needs to target mitochondrial permeability to ensure apoptosis.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from France, "one of the mechanisms by which chemotherapeutics destroy cancer cells is by inducing apoptosis. Apoptosis can be activated through several different...

P16 hypermethylation, p53 mutation could play role in pathogenesis.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of p16 inactivation in gastric cancer and to compare it with p53. A cohort of 34 primary GCs were analyzed for p16 mutations and...

Increased IL-7 is related to postoperative bone loss.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "postmenopausal bone loss stems from the inability of osteoblastic activity to match the increase in osteoclastic bone resorption induced by estrogen...

Cockayne syndrome group B has a mutation in mitochondrial DNA repair gene.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "reactive oxygen species, which are prevalent in mitochondria, cause oxidative DNA damage including the mutagenic DNA lesion 7,8-dihydroxyguanine...

Urinary profiling reveals catechol estrogen is upregulated.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "To evaluate the potential effect of estrogens in premenopausal female thyroid cancer, the concentrations of 14 estrogens were quantitatively determined in the urine of preoperative and postoperative...

p53 codon 72 polymorphism Pro/Pro frequency increases urothelial cancer risk.
February 17, 2003... 2003 FEB 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Japan, "the p53 tumor suppressor gene is often mutated in various human cancers. Recently, the p53 codon 72 polymorphism has been extensively studied to determine the risk...

Visual screening methods may prove useful for cervical cancer screening.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "This article considers recent advances in visual screening methods. Devices that use electro-optical sensors offer great potential in various clinical...

Sentinel node procedure greatly reduces risk of metastatic recurrence.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Studies of large series of melanoma patients indicated that the average incidence of developing a recurrence during followup was 40%. The most frequent first sites of these recurrences were the...

Drug resistance and cardiotoxicity of doxorubicin overcome by LDL coupling.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Peoples Republic of China, "Doxorubicin (Dox) was coupled into human low density lipoprotein (LDL) to form a complex: LDL-Dox. In in vitro studies, the accumulation of...

Diagnostic tests may be inadequate to differentiate disease from leiomyomatosis.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "Inferior vena cava (IVC) leiomyosarcoma is a rare cancer treated with wide surgical resection. IVC leiomyomatosis is a benign tumor treated with open...

Management should be adapted according to site of nodal disease, histopathology.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from England, "Analysis of the case records of 114 patients with cervical lymph node metastases from unknown primary sites showed that management should be adapted...

ZD6474, an oral kinase inhibitor, efficiently blocks oncogenic RET kinases.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "RET/papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) oncogenes, generated by recombination of the tyrosine kinase encoding domain of RET with different heterologous genes, are prevalent in papillary carcinomas of...

Shoe fluoroscope may be risk factor in development of foot disease.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Germany, "Basal cell carcinomas (BCC) of the foot are absolutely rare. We describe the case of a 72-year-old female patient who developed a multicentric superficial...

Pap smear improvement, participation in screening important to decreasing deaths.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "Despite the fact that cervical cytology screening programs have dramatically reduced the prevalence of cervical cancer in the United States, women continue...

Television character in England influenced women to go in for cervical smear.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from England, "Following a story line in Coronation Street in which Alma died of cervical cancer, there was a large increase in the number of cervical smears taken in Manchester....

Rare development after radiotherapy for primary breast carcinoma.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Israel, "Malignant neoplasms known to develop after external beam radiation include angiosarcoma. "Although angiosarcoma developing in a lymphedematous arm after radical...

Enucleation of giant leiomyoma safe, effective procedure.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Leiomyoma is the most common benign tumor found in the esophagus but it is, however, a rare neoplasm; in fact of all esophageal tumors, benign tumors account for fewer than 10%, of which 4% are...

High rates of hypersensitivity reactions to cisplatin during chemoradiation.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Israel, "Hypersensitivity reactions to intravenous cisplatin are rare. The appearance of hypersensitivity reactions in four of 25 consecutive patients treated with...

Newer chemotherapeutic agents, biologic therapies developed for treatment.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Early-stage cervical cancer has an excellent prognosis. With more advanced disease, however-the survival rate is poor," researchers in the United States report. "Newer chemotherapeutic agents...

MR may provide noninvasive method for examining specimens.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of a new MR-pathologic correlation method utilizing a high-resolution MR technique with a 3-inch surface coil and elimination of susceptibility by...

Report of rare metachronous tumor of the maxillary sinuses.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Singapore, "Malignant tumors of the nasal cavities and paranasal sinuses are uncommon. They constitute less than 1% of all tumors and less than 3% of head and neck...

Accurate diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor imperative for therapy.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a rare, but potentially aggressive tumor. "We present an asymptomatic 64-year-old man with an...

Intrathoracic desmoid tumor provides surgical challenge because of recurrence.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Brazil, "A desmoid tumor of the mediastinum was diagnosed and treated in a 35-year-old man who presented with a right supraclavicular mass. "The tumor was...

A rare case of primary tumor of probable minor salivary gland origin.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Mucinous adenocarcinoma (MAC) is characterized by large pools of extracellular mucin," researchers in Japan report. "The tumor has been reported in the nasal cavity, paranasal sinus, breast,...

Rare case diagnosed of the cervical sympathetic trunk.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Switzerland, "We report the case of a 17-year-old man who presented with left-sided Horner's syndrome. "Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a spindle-shaped...

An ectopic parathyroid adenoma initially suspected to be a thyroid lesion.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Considering the variety of aberrant locations in which ectopic parathyroid adenomas may be found, these neoplasms can be difficult to identify and treat surgically," stated S.A. Pitsilos and...

Biological behavior of rare mixed tumor makes it difficult to diagnose.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from India, "We report a case of true malignant mixed tumor (carcinosarcoma) of the parotid gland with epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma and pleomorphic sarcomatous...

Breast metastasis from low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma after 17-years.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Metastases to the breast are rare, with an incidence of 0.5 %-3% of patients with extramammary carcinomas," wrote I. Gunhan-Bilgen and colleagues, Ege University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine. ...

Computed tomography method of choice; nasendoscopic examination also important.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Computed tomography (CT) is the imaging method of choice for conditions that affect the paranasal sinuses," researchers in England report. "We reviewed all paranasal CT scans in the ear nose and...

Rare form of extragonadal tumor in an infant.
February 24, 2003... 2003 FEB 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from South Korea, "Congenital immature teratoma of the tongue is a very rare form of extragonadal teratoma. "We report an infant autopsy case of a huge congenital immature...