Background: The diagnosis of cancer develops many challenges for adolescents. Changes associated with cancer treatment are considered stressful and impact negatively on adolescents' psychosocial status. Adaptation to body image changes is essential to the ultimate coping with can...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/24144
Carcinosarcoma is a mixed malignant biphasic tumour representing a rare entity and comprises of both epithelial and mesenchymal components. Primary ovarian carcinosarcoma is a rare neoplasm with a number of cases reported in the literature in the hundreds. It accounts for less th...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/22769
Granulocytic sarcoma is a rare haematological neoplasm due to extramedullary leukemic deposits. Granulocytic Sarcoma of ovary is even rare associated with chronic myeloid leukaemia and responds to imatinib treatment. A strong vigilance is required. Here we report a case of granul...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/22486
Primary angiosarcoma of the prostate (PASOP) is a very rare tumour which most clinicians have not encountered and may be unaware of Literature of PASOP was reviewed by obtaining information from various internet data bases including: Google, Google Scholar, Educus, and PUB Med. L...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/21431
Prostate cancer is a growing health problem among men with new cases being diagnosed each day. At the point of diagnosis symptoms might not be obvious but with the progression of the disease it becomes clear. The diagnosis of prostate cancer put men through a lot of psychological...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/22461
Aims: Advanced Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major health problem with limited treatment options. The Sorafenib monothearpy is the only efficacious systemic treatment agent showing a survival benefit in these patients. In our study, we evaluated the efficacy and tolerabilit...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/22142
Background: Primary synovial sarcoma of the prostate gland (PSSP) is rare and most clinicians would be unfamiliar with its biological behaviour. Aim: To review the literature on PSSP. Methods: Various internet data bases were searched. Literature Review: PSSP is extremely rare wi...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/19541
Aims: Evaluate the role of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by an additional cycle of chemotherapy and total mesorectal excision (TME) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer on the rate of pathologic complete response (pCR) and tumor downstaging, their impac...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2016/22520
The papillary and follicular histological sub-types of thyroid cancer are referred to as differentiated thyroid cancers. When these tumors metastasize, they rarely do so to the liver. Hepatic metastasis is very uncommon in this group of cancers and has only been reported in a han...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2015/20790
Aims: The aim of the study was to assess the frequency of Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) gene mutation, perform clinicopathologic characterization of KRAS mutated colorectal cancer (CRC), evaluation of the prognostic significance of KRAS mutations and their inf...
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Research Article10.9734/JCTI/2015/20417