Questions tagged [metastatic-cancer]
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Figo staging of ovarian cancer
What stage would it be if the PELVIC lymph nodes are involved in case of ovarian cancer?
Will it be stage 2 as it is pelvic organ or will it be stage 3 as it will be retroperitoneal?
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Is it true that surgery for cancer can cause the cancer to spread? [closed]
This cancer.org article says:
You may have heard that surgery for cancer can cause the cancer to spread. It's very rare for surgery to cause cancer to spread. Advances in equipment used during ...
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Why is the Virchow node involved in Gastric Adeonocarcinoma?
The lymph node drainage of the stomach is via the pyloric and related lymph nodes. Either way, the supraclavicular node (Virchow's node) is not the first lymph node that drains the Stomach. According ...
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Why does metastatic bone cancer present as back pain that is "worse at night"?
One "classic" presentation of metastatic bone cancer is back pain that "tends to be worse at night and may get better with movement" - American Cancer Society.
Googling "back pain worse at night from ...
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What is Sentinel lymph node? [closed]
The axillary lymph node group does not include the sentinel lymph node and Wikipedia says it is a “hypothetical ” lymph node which is the first to be drained by a tumour. It also has a significant ...
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Can tumor size (T) and presence of cancer in the lymph nodes (N) in patients with lung cancer be identified on the first visit?
I am a scientific researcher working on lung cancer. I am trying to develop a machine learning method able to process just few early detection features and then predict if a patient with lung cancer ...
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Anti-PD1 in adjuvancy after resection of metastatic melanoma in Europe
I was wondering if it is possible to get anti-PD1 (nivo/pembro/...) treatment in an adjuvant setting after resection of metastatic melanoma. Even if that means paying the treatment.
As far as I know, ...
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Need some clarification on benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
My dad was diagnosed with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and recently underwent a CT scan. In the CT scan report, it is referred as "pedicle metastasis d9". What does this mean?
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What are survival rates of male patients in stage IV throat cancer that has metastasised to the lower pallet?
The patient is receiving a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The surgery to remove the cancerous throat tissue was not entirely successful as the surgeon discovered that the cancer had ...
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