Head carcinoma

These bone sarcomas and head carcinomas have been seen in many radium dial painters and have appeared from 5 to more than 50 years after first exposure to radium. Of those dial painters for whom radium intakes have been estimated (a total of 1,907), 41 have developed bone sarcomas,... 

Of the Elgin State Hospital patients who received injections of radium-226 (see Section 2.2.4), two patients developed bone sarcomas, four developed head carcinomas, and a seventh patient had both types of malignancy (statistical significance was not addressed) (Gustafson and Stehney 1985). 

Takada T, Yasuda H, Amano H et al (1997) Simultaneous hepatic resection with pancreato-duodenectomy for metastatic pancreatic head carcinoma does it improve survival Hepatogastroenterology 44 567-573... 

A pancreatic head carcinoma will bulge into and deform the medial wall of the duodenum, both above and below the level of the ampulla. This may be severe enough to prevent the passage of an endoscope. 

ADCC. Cetuximab is approved for treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) and squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN). Interestingly, an adverse event, acneiform rash seems to correlate with a better response to cetuximab, while there is no such correlation with expression levels of EGFR assessed by immunohistochemistry. Further side effects are rare infusion reactions and hypomagnesia. Two other anti-EGFR antibodies approved for clinical use are the fully human antibody panitumumab (Vectibix)... 

Hypercalcemia occurs in 10% to 30% of patients with cancer during the course of their disease. The most common tumor types associated with hypercalcemia are breast cancer squamous cell carcinomas of the head, neck, and lung and renal cancer. 

Wang J, Hunt JL, Gooding W, et al. Expression pattern of chemokine receptor 6 (CCR6) and CCR7 in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck identifies a novel metastatic phenotype. Cancer Res 2004 64 1861-1866. 

Villaret DB et al. Identification of genes overexpressed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma using a combination of complementary DNA subtraction and microarray analysis. Laryngoscope 2000 11 374-381. 

Hematologic Head and Neck Gynecologic Genitourinary Gastrointestinal Endocrine Carcinoma Breast Cancer Malignancies Cancer Cancer Cancer Cancer Cancer of Unknown... 

Breast Cancer Carcinoma Endocrine Gastrointestinal Genitourinary Gynecologic Head and Neck Hematologic... 

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