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Locally Advanced and Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: Survival analysis and prognostic factors in a case series

ABSTRACT Objective: Systemic treatment of advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma has resulted in increased survival of patients, but real-life data are scarce, particularly in developing countries. This study aims to analyze the survival of patients with locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic pancreatic cancer and factors related to better survival. Methods: an analytical study with...
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Overview and different perspectives on possible treatments related to NUT carcinoma: a systematic review

ABSTRACT NUT carcinoma (midline testicular carcinoma nuclear protein) is a relatively new, rare, aggressive and underdiagnosed entity. Its sites of involvement are medial structures of the head and neck and mediastinum, but other sites may be affected, and even in so-called common structures, the clinical course may impress. The objective...
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Epidermoid squamous cell carcinoma after pulmonary tuberculosis infection

ABSTRACT A 64-year-old female patient with uncompensated fever and secretive cough, an active smoker with a history of tuberculosis treated irregularly, developed non-small cell lung cancer such as squamous cell carcinoma in the pulmonary cavernoma.
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Primary small cell carcinoma of the thyroid: a case report

ABSTRACT The diagnosis of cervical mass is a challenge due to the wide variety of benign and malignant etiologies. Extrapulmonary small cell carcinomas (EPSCC) are rare entities, and those tumours arising as a primary cervical, especially in the thyroid gland, are exceedingly rare. As others small cell neuroendocrine carcinomas, the...