PURPOSE The monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) has been shown to be associated with the prognosis of various solid tumors. This study sought to evaluate the important value of the MLR in ovarian cancer patients. METHODS A total of 133 ovarian cancer patients and 43 normal controls were retrospectively reviewed. The patients' demographics were analyzed along with clinical and pathologic data. ...

After liver metastasis, lung is the second most common metastatic target organ of colorectal cancer (CRC). This study aimed to explore clinicopathological features metastasis CRC. A total 1402 consecutive CRC patients with (LM) from November 2006 August 2022 in Zhejiang Cancer Hospital were analyzed. The characteristics including sex, age, smoking, drinking, BMI, primary tumor location, patholo...

Introduction: 46,XY pure gonadal dysgenesis (PGD) is also known as Swyer syndrome. The chromosome analysis indicates a karyotype. As different degrees of hypoplasia or degeneration occur in the process embryonic development due to several factors, dysplasia tumors are probable. Case Presentation: patient was 22-year-old female with no menstruation during puberty. Her chest funnel-shaped, breast...

Background: Abdominal wall endometriosis has been well-described and can occur after caesarean section. However, malignant transformation of abdominal wall endometriosis is rare, less than 40 cases have been reported so far and its pathogenesis is still poorly understood. Case report: Here, we report a 48-year-old woman, gravida 1, para 1, with a history of uneventful caesarean delivery present...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) to eradicate intraperitoneal free cancer cells and to explore the feasibility of cytological cure for peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). METHODS The peritoneal lavage fluid (or ascites) from 50 PC patients was collected before and after intraoperative HIPEC, respectively, for conventional cytology test, and conve...

We assessed the value of palliative local treatment of incurable metastatic lesions in colorectal cancer patients. Consecutive patients with metastatic colorectal cancer treated between 2003 and 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. Propensity score matching was used to create comparable palliative local treatment and chemotherapy alone groups (n = 272 in each group). The primary endpoint was ove...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of Paxillin in colorectal carcinoma and its significance in clinical prognosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Tissue specimens from 242 colorectal cancer patients who underwent radical resection were collected in Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital from 2010 to 2014. The mRNA levels of Paxillin in colorectal cancer tissue and tissue a...