Breast cancer rarely metastasizes to skeletal muscle. Moreover, muscle is a rare site of metastasis for any type cancer. In this study, we report an unexpected finding enlarged mass in the gluteus maximus asymptomatic patient with distant history breast The was observed during computed tomography evaluation preparation non-oncologic procedure. Biopsy and pathological investigation confirmed met...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to analyze the correlation between primary gross tumor volume (GTVp) and prognosis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) undergoing intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). METHODS Between February 2001 and December 2006, 305 patients with NPC treated with IMRT were analyzed retrospectively. GTVp was calculated from treatment planning CT sca...

•Extra-peritoneal metastasis is uncommon in epithelial ovarian carcinoma.•Metastasis of epithelial ovarian carcinoma to axillary lymph node is rare.•Lymphatic drainage system can explain the rout of this distant metastasis.•Tissue diagnosis is the mainstay in identifying the origin of axillary metastasis.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive value of pretreatment serum uric acid (SUA) for metastasis in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy. METHODS This retrospective study examined 1063 patients with locally advanced NPC. Multivariate survival analysis was used. RESULTS High pretreatment SUA level (>353.4...

introduction low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (lg-ess) is a malignant intrauterine tumor that rarely presents with distant metastasis. simultaneous lung and cardiac metastases from lg-ess is also an extremely rare event. case presentation a 42-year-old woman presented with dyspnea and exercise intolerance. she had a history of hysterectomy and left salpingoophorectomy. she underwent second...

Introduction. Soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) represent 1 percent of all adult malignancies and sarcomas only rarely spread to the regional lymph nodes. Case Presentation. We present a case of a woman with a dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans and a sarcoma not therwise specified of the lower extremity. The patient had no distant metastasis during follow-up, but did develop a regional lymph nodemetasta...

BACKGROUND The development of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) has revolutionized the management of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value and classification of TNM stage system for retropharyngeal lymph node (RLN) metastasis in NPC in the IMRT era. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed data from 749 patients with biops...

PURPOSE Most node-negative breast cancer patients are older and postmenopausal and are increasingly being offered adjuvant chemotherapy despite their low overall risk of distant relapse. A molecular diagnostic test with high negative predictive value (NPV) for distant metastasis in this subgroup would spare many older breast cancer patients adjuvant treatment. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We determine...

Bone metastasis is the most frequent type of distant metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). In this study, we investigated the correlation between the skull base bone destruction and the distant bone metastasis in patients with NPC. A total of 449 cases with NPC who were diagnosed and had definitive radiotherapy from 2001 to 2006 were enrolled in this study. The skull base bone destructi...

Background: CA 15-3 serum is one of the tumor marker that has been recommended by American Soviety Clinical Oncology to show response therapy, prognosis and metastasis breast cancer. a mucin will be expressed cancer cell. The over expression can occurred if cell progressivity increase. Several studies have shown increasing in Objective: This study aimed determine relationship between with Metho...