Bone is a preferred site for breast cancer metastasis and leads to pathologic bone loss due to increased osteoclast-induced bone resorption. The homing of tumor cells to the bone depends on the support of the bone microenvironment in which the tumor cells prime the premetastatic niche. The colonization and growth of tumor cells then depend on adaptations in the invading tumor cells to take adva...

Metastatic tumors to the heart unlike primary cardiac tumors are not rare. Despite its frequency, cardiac metastasis is commonly detected only during autopsy as the symptoms of disseminated metastasis prevail over symptoms caused by cardiac metastasis and hence is overlooked most of the time. Tumors more commonly found metastasizing to the heart are malignancies of lung, breast, esophagus, lymp...

[Purpose] To clarify t he relationship between the level of independence in activities daily living (ADL) and Skeletal Muscle Mass Index (SMI), as well prevalence low skeletal muscle mass, care-dependent elderly residents nursing homes. [Participants Methods] In 39 women special homes, Barthel (BI) representing ADL mass based on bioelectrical impedance analysis to calculate SMI were measured, c...

We report 2 cases of carcinoma gallbladder with only solitary skeletal metastasis. To the best of our knowledge there are only 3 case reports of carcinoma gallbladder with skeletal metastasis in the English literature.

We present a 55-year old male patient who was subjected to whole body skeletal scintigraphy for metastatic work up of urinary bladder cancer. Whole body 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) skeletal scintigraphy was performed. That revealed no skeletal metastasis in the entire body skeleton and normally visualized left kidney with empty right renal fossa. Additionally tracer activity ...

Lung cancers are diagnosed at a metastatic stage in 40% to 50% of cases. Skeletal Muscle Metastases (SMM) rare and usually

Aim This study was performed to investigate the relationship between preoperative cachexia index (CXI) and long-term outcomes in patients who have undergone radical resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Methods In total, 144 underwent for treatment PDAC were retrospectively analyzed. The CXI patients' after investigated. calculated based on skeletal muscle index, serum albumin l...