DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Distant spread
Prostate cancer staging
Prostate cancer staging is the process by which physicians categorize the risk of cancer having spread beyond the prostate, or equivalently, the probability of being cured with local therapies such as surgery or radiation. Once patients are placed in prognostic categories, this information can contribute to the selection of an optimal approach to treatment. The information considered in such a prognostic classification can be based on physical examination, imaging studies and blood tests (so-called "clinical stage"), or based on the extent of disease as revealed in a surgical specimen (so-called "pathologic stage")...
Distant spread - List of case studies
- Secondary Malignancy in mesentery following primary rectal cancer with multiple colonic polyps
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Surgery on 2.2006 ; no evidence of local or distant spread and a total proctocolectomy and ileoanal anastomosis and pouch was ...
- Stage I Uterine Leiomyosarcoma
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was no evidence of intraperitoneal, retroperitoneal or distant metastases according to the surgical and imaging studies. ... after the surgery , especially since sarcomas tend to spread via the hematogenous rout and send distant metastasis outside of the ...
- Multinodular Thyroid Goiter with normal functioning
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obviously there is a risk of locoregional recurrence or distant spread , however, thyroid cancer, especially in women are a slow growing ...