Neuroendocrine Tumor - Articles
Desmoplastic melanoma, a common missed diagnosis.
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Dr.Prashant Jani
Introduction: Although desmoplastic melanoma represents less than 2 percent of all melanomas, it's frequently misdiagnosed, due to a lack of distinctive clinical presentation features. Histologic diagnosis is rarely straightforward either. Patients are often middle age-to-elderly and present with the tumor most often on the head and neck region. ...
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Sprycel for glioblastoma
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Mark Levin
In one preclinical study, Dasatinib in combination with temozolomide more effectively increased the therapeutic efficacy of temozolomide than when dasatinib was combined with carboplatin or irinotecan. Researchers also used dasatinib to treat mice with glioblastoma and found that the drug significantly reduced tumor growth. These results strongly ...
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Friday Oncology
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Haveyroo
Yes this is Miss Haven playing with barbies. Kris said she played for over 20 mins! I know I sound crazy but she never plays!Haven met with Oncology today and I'm excited because it came back that she has lost a pound and has grown 1/2 an inch!!! This is awesome. In May she was about 1% on the growth chart. We did HiCY and she bumped up to 5%. Sinc ...
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Frequent Fertility Questions
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Dr. Fred Licciardi
Hello to all, Here is your latest entry. What if I have had miscarriages but my HSG and clotting tests are normal? Make sure you get the karyotype test, the blood test to check your chromosomes. What if your partner recently had a vasectomy reversal and the motility is only 20% with poor morphology. Will these numbers improve with time? Hard ...
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PET Scan Today- Anxious
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peggy L.
I go for a PET Scan this morning. This imaging differs from CAT scan because it's looking for "live" cancer activity, as opposed to the flat images of a CAT scan. I'll see Dr. lo next Wed and she'll go over the results. Will my progress continue? Will there be good news or bad? It's such a stressful time waiting for any test results - wi ...
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Health Tips for November 6
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Meredy
Health Tip: Triggering Abdominal BloatingWhen your belly feels bloated, uncomfortably tight and full, your doctor may refer to it as abdominal bloating.The U.S. National Library of Medicine offers this list of common causes:Swallowing air.Being constipated.Having too much gas in the bowels.Having lactose intolerance or other food intolerance.Eating ...
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Cabbage
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Corry C.
Cabbage comes in many varieties; white, green and red cabbage, savoy, drumhead cabbage and several more. This veggie likes fertile soil and needs to be closely watched for pests and other harmful insects. If you like to grow cabbage, you may do well to pick a variety which is suitable for your area. CabbageA dieter's dream - cabbage has only 25 cal ...
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Beating Cancer: Does Early Detection Help?
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Total Health Breakthroughs
For more than 30 years, government health organizations and the cancer societies have pushed the idea that early detection and treatment increases your odds of surviving cancer. The messages are everywhere. They urge us to check for prostate, breast, colon, skin cancer and more.Logically, it makes sense that the earlier you discover a cancer, the m ...
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Breast cancer and prostate cancer: Early detection saves lives?
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DiseaseProof
If breast and prostate cancer were detected early, via mammograms and PSA tests, treatment could begin earlier, and lives would be saved – right?Wrong, according to a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that examined incidence and mortality rates for breast and prostate cancer over the past 20 years. 1Why? The au ...
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Lung cancer metastasis: new drugs in the market?
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Dr. Nagaraj
Lung cancer:The lungs are a pair of cone-shaped breathing organs in the chest. The lungs bring oxygen into the body as you breathe in. They release carbon dioxide, a waste product of the body’s cells, as you breathe out. Each lung has sections called lobes. The left lung has two lobes. The right lung is slightly larger and has three lobes. Tw ...
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