Background Screening by cytology has been highly effective in reducing the incidence and mortality from squamous invasive cervical cancer (ICC), but the effectiveness is less established regarding non-squamous ICC and regarding women above screening ages and below 30 years of age. Cervical cancer still occurs despite the presence of an organised screening programme. A substantial proportion of ...

This workshop is composed of 25 cases from an ongoing local audit selected to demonstrate factors in the screening history that may be relevant to invasive cancer not having been prevented. False positive and false negative cytology slides are included, but the emphasis is placed on multiple factors that are often involved in these cases. Conventional smears and liquid-based preparations (ThinP...

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common skin cancer, especially in Caucasians. The head location, however, exceptional cases it can occur areas where there little sun exposure, usually aggressive cases. Each time an increase youngest basal cell, presents different types: Nodular, Superficial, Populations of incidence. Pigmented, Morpheiform or Infiltrating Sclerosing clinical and Fibroepithelio...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the second most common malignancy among women, next to cervix cancer. Understanding its pathogenesis, morphological features and various risk-factors, including family history holds a great promise for the treatment, early detection and prevention of this cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS In an attempt to evaluate the clinico-morphological patterns of breast cancer pati...

BACKGROUND Secretory mammary carcinoma is a rare breast neoplasia originally described in children but sometimes also found in adults. It presents a more favourable outcome than more common histological types of breast carcinoma; published literature in fact reports only a few cases with axillary lymph node metastases and only four cases with distant metastases. CLINICAL PRESENTATION In this ...

Patient: Female, 33 Final Diagnosis: Matrix-producing metaplastic breast carcinoma Symptoms: - Medication: - Clinical Procedure: Operative Specialty: Oncology Objective: Rare disease. BACKGROUND Metaplastic breast carcinomas are ductal carcinomas that undergo metaplasia into non-glandular growth patterns. They ...

Impact of immune microenvironment in prognosis of solid tumors has been extensively studied in the last few years. Specifically in colorectal carcinoma, increased knowledge of the immune events around these tumors and their relation with clinical outcomes have led to consider immune microenvironment as one of the most important prognostic factors in this disease. In this review we will summariz...

Primary retroperitoneal carcinoma is a rare but highly aggressive tumour often resulting in infiltration of abdominal organs and diaphragm. We describe a case of retroperitoneal carcinoma infiltrating the diaphragm, the lower lobe of the left lung and ribs IX and X, but sparing the abdominal organs. After thoracoabdominal access, our patient underwent resection of the retroperitoneal carcinoma,...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. Organized cervical screening and vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) have been successful interventions for prevention of invasive cervical cancer (ICC). Because of cultural and religious considerations, ICC has low incidence in Iran and many other Muslim countries. There is no organized cervical scre...

Cutaneous metastases from signet ring cell gastric carcinoma are uncommon. A 35-year-old male presented with a three-month history of multiple asymptomatic, indurated, pinky colored nodules of 2.5 to 4 cm in diameter, without any local and general symptoms. Nodule biopsy revealed an infiltrating signet ring cell carcinoma. Gastroscopy and biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of gastric carcinoma with...