Signet ring morphology in gastric biopsies may mask metastatic invasive lobular carcinoma from breast cancer
Expert Review Helps Identify Breast Cancer Spreading to Stomach
This case report describes a 52-year-old woman with metastatic invasive lobular carcinoma that was initially misidentified as primary gastri…
A single patient's case shows how specific lab tests can help doctors distinguish between stomach cancer and metastatic breast cancer.
Review of 35 cases highlights diagnostic challenges in gastric metastasis from invasive lobular breast cancer
Breast Cancer Spreads to Stomach: Why Testing Must Change
This case report and literature review synthesizes data from 35 recent cases (2019–2024) of gastric metastasis from breast cancer.
Doctors must re-test stomach issues in breast cancer patients because the cells often change their identity.
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Review of survey data highlights high rates of misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis in metastatic invasive lobular breast cancer
One in Four Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Misdiagnosed at First Visit
This cross-sectional survey review analyzed patient-reported data from 525 individuals with invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC).
One in four metastatic breast cancer patients were misdiagnosed at their first doctor visit, delaying care for a stealthy cancer that spread…
Autopsy study finds 55% thyroid nodular disease prevalence in Mexico City hospital patients
Autopsy study finds high thyroid nodule rates in Mexico City, no link to salt iodination
A retrospective cohort study of 487 autopsies from a third-level hospital in Mexico City found a thyroid nodular disease prevalence of 55% a…
Autopsies in Mexico City reveal thyroid nodules are very common, yet changing salt iodination rules did not increase their rates.
Combined CT morphological and histogram features improve differentiation of PIMA from PINMA compared to separate models
Combining CT features improved lung cancer subtype prediction accuracy in a small review
This retrospective cohort review evaluated 163 patients with solitary pulmonary invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma (PIMA) or pulmonary invasiv…
Combining CT scan features boosts lung cancer subtype prediction accuracy to 0.845, offering a practical diagnostic aid for distinguishing b…
Adjuvant intravesical BCG versus Epirubicin in intermediate-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
A Common Bladder Cancer Treatment Extends Remission, But at a Cost
This randomized controlled trial compared adjuvant intravesical BCG and Epirubicin in 122 patients with intermediate-risk non-muscle invasiv…
For a common bladder cancer, one treatment keeps the disease away longer, but the other may offer a better daily life.
Cryoablation shows 3.64% 5-year recurrence in selected early-stage breast cancer patients
Cryoablation shows low recurrence rate in early-stage breast cancer after six years
A prospective phase 2 multicenter study of 83 women aged ≥50 with stage I, HR+, HER2-, node-negative invasive ductal carcinoma found a 5-yea…
Cryoablation kept early-stage breast cancer from returning in 97.6% of women over six years, with no serious side effects reported in this s…
Radiomics-ML model predicts invasiveness in subcentimeter subsolid lung adenocarcinoma
AI model shows promise for predicting cancer invasiveness in small lung nodules
A two-center retrospective cohort study of 260 patients with surgically confirmed subcentimeter subsolid lung adenocarcinoma developed and v…
An AI model predicts whether tiny, hazy lung spots are invasive cancer with 79% accuracy, offering a new tool for doctors to spot dangerous …