For over 100 years, scientists have known that a rare and ugly relationship exists between certain cancers occurring outside the central nervous system and any related nervous system damage. In these ...

Paraneoplastic syndromes are groups of certain signs and symptoms that develop in some people with cancer. The name comes from the word “para” which means “alongside of,” and “neoplasm,” which means ...

January 21, 2010 — Positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) revealed malignant tumors in 18% of patients who had undergone prior evaluations negative for cancer, a new study ...

Background: A 58-year-old woman presented with arthritis of the small joints of her hands and rapidly progressive joint contractures. She was wheelchair bound within 2 months of the onset of her ...

Germline and somatic mutations in 25 hereditary breast and ovarian cancer related genes and platinum-based chemotherapy response among Chinese patients with epithelial ovarian cancer. This is an ASCO ...

Paraneoplastic autoimmune dermatological conditions represent a heterogeneous group of skin and mucosal disorders that arise in the context of an underlying neoplasm. These conditions are not caused ...

89 Zr-bevacizumab PET imaging in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients before and during antiangiogenic treatment. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increasing diagnoses of paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes in the U.S. correlates to heightened awareness by ...

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is traditionally considered a benign precursor plasma cell disorder with minimal risk of progression to multiple myeloma or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this Healio Video Perspective from the Retina Society meeting, Carol Shields, MD, describes an interesting ...