Insight into Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Novel insight into the pathophysiology of breast-cancer-related lymphoedema.

In this issue of Clinical Science, Stanton et al. [1] describe experiments that provide new insights into the pathophysiology of breast-cancer-related-lymphoedema (BRCL), a condition affecting a quarter of patients successfully treated for breast cancer by mastectomy, associated lymph node removal, and}or subsequent radiotherapy. BRCL has long been considered a result of reduced lymph flow thro...

Mitophagy: New Insight into the Cardiovascular Aging  

Inflammatory breast cancer.

The very original definition of carcinomatous mastitis suggests the main diagnostic difficulty of this onchologic condition. Actually it is more correctly appointed as inflammatory breast cancer, because notwithstanding the inflammatory appearance, it is a true systemic breast cancer, for which surgery represents an only marginal treatment resource. If is now well known that radical mastectomy ...

Inflammatory breast cancer.

To cite: Trikalinos NA, Yared J. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013009029 DESCRIPTION A 55-year-old woman presented with a few months’ complaints of weight loss, fatigue, shortness of breath and a rapidly growing right breast mass. She had no family history of breast cancer. Physical examination showed a cachectic patient with a firm, indurated, ...

an insight into salivary markers in oral cancer

salivary diagnostics has fascinated many researcheres and has been tested as a valuable tool in the diagnosis of many systemic conditions and for drug monitoring. advances in the field of molecular biology, salivary genomics and proteomics have led to the discovery of new molecular markers for oral cancer diagnosis, therapeutics and prognosis. oral cancer is a potentially fatal disease and the ...