El cáncer de Mama es el tumor más frecuente de la mujer y su incidencia va en aumento. En la atención primaria del paciente, se debe establecer el riesgo de padecer cáncer de mama durante la vida, a través de una historia clínica orientada a los factores de riesgo familiares e individuales, de tal ...
Introducción: A nivel mundial hay un incremento de la incidencia de melanoma, Panamá no escapa a
esta realidad. Para todas las etapas hay riesgo de recurrencia inclusive luego de una cirugía adecuada
y elevadas probabilidades de fallecer a causa de metástasis. Este trabajo busca conocer la experien...
RESUMO Objetivo: analisar a expressão do Fator de Crescimento do Endotélio Vascular (VEGF), seu receptor (VEGFR-2), idade e tipo histológico de carcinomas avançados de colo uterino com relação à resposta clínica à quimioterapia neoadjuvante. Métodos: foram incluídas 40 pacientes com diagnós...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the length hospital stay and predictors of prolonged hospitalization after RRP performed in a high-surgical volume teaching institution, and analyze the rate of unplanned visits to the office, emergency care, hospital readmissions and perioperative complications rates. M...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate whether color-coding of prostate core biopsy specimens aids in preservation of the neurovascular bundles from an oncological perspective. Materials and Methods: MRI guided transrectal ultrasound and biopsy of the prostate were performed in 51 consecutive patients suspect...
ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the relationship between the pretreatment body mass index (BMI) and the clinical outcomes in patients with localized stage I - III renal cell carcinoma (RCC) surgically treated. Materials and Methods: From January 2000 to December 2012, 798 patients with stage I - III...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate different weight loss (WL) cut-off points as prognostic markers of 3-month survival after diagnosis of stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: This was a prospective study involving 104 patients with metastatic (stage IV) NSCLC who were admitted to a cancer...
Abstract Introduction Papillary thyroid carcinoma has a very high rate of lateral neck node metastases, and there is almost unanimity concerning the fact that some sort of formal neck dissection must be performed to address the clinical neck disease in these cases. Although there is an agreement that le...