Pelvic recurrence after resection of rectal adenocarcinoma is a feared complication and is associated with a worse prognosis and low resectability rates. The differential diagnosis is difficult, as biopsy is seldom performed preoperatively. We report two cases of desmoid pelvic tumor after resection of r...
PURPOSE: to study 75 familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) patients treated in a single institution in Ribeirão Preto/SP, from January 1981 to December 2011. METHODS: this is a retrospective study and the following data were collected: gender, age, main symptoms, familial history, coexisting malignancies...
Background : The venom of Centruroides limpidus limpidus (Cll) is a mixture of pharmacologically active principles. The most important of these are toxic proteins that interact both selectively and specifically with different cellular targets such as ion channels. Recently, anticancer properties of the v...
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate risk factors for colorectal cancer recurrence after surgical treatment. METHODS: Sixty-five patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma, stage I and II (TNM), undergoing curative-intent surgery and followed for five years were studied. Presence of adjuvant/neoadjuvant therapy, tumor diffe...
INTRODUCTION: In Brazil, about 26,000 cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed per year. Patients considered at the early stage of disease (without lymph node) evolve with tumor relapse or recurrence in up to a quarter of cases, probably due to understaging. Objective: Research on ex vivo sentinel lymph ...
Objetivo: Determinar la supervivencia libre de enfermedad y global a dos años en pacientes con cáncer gástrico que recibieron tratamiento adyuvante en el Instituto Nacional de Cancerología de Colombia (INC) durante el 2009. Pacientes y métodos: De forma retrospectiva, se incluyeron pacientes con dia...
Angiolymphatic invasion (ALI) in colorectal cancer (CRC) is considered as an important independent prognostic factor and may influence therapeutic decisions. OBJECTIVE: This aim of the study is to find the incidence of ALI in histopathological reports of surgical specimens from patients who underwent sur...
Peritoneal carcinomatosis due to breast cancer is rare and gastrointestinal tract involvement is also unusual. Symptoms are unspecific and can begin many years after the primary tumor. Investigation of carcinomatosis origin is mandatory as breast cancer carcinomatosis can relieve partially or totally wit...
Granular cell tumor rarely affects the gastrointestinal tract. The symptoms are often unspecific and the diagnosis is reached accidentally by colonoscopy. We report the case of a 42-year-old patient diagnosed with granular cell carcinoma of the colon based on an incidental finding in colonoscopy, who was...
El adenocarcinoma hepatoide gástrico es un tumor maligno que tiene una morfología que se asemeja al carcinoma hepatocelular, y algunos poseen alfa feto proteína inmunorreactiva. Es de mal pronóstico, agresivo y letal. Se presenta el caso de una paciente de 84 años de edad que padecía un adenocarcin...
