Paraneoplastic syndromes are uncommon disorders that can arise with any cancer type but are more common with lung cancer. Cancer is a complex disease. Even more convoluted: its effects on the body.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 58-year-old white man was initially evaluated in August 2007 with left-sided chest pain and hemoptysis. His ...

Show More Section of Gynecologic Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030-4095, USA. The purpose of this review is to define and describe the paraneoplastic ...

Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (or paraneoplastic neurological disorders), are a class of conditions which arise due to an autoimmune attack on neural tissue (amongst others) in response to ...

The literature describes the clinical picture of palmar fasciitis and polyarthritis syndrome as presenting with pain and diffuse synovitis of the hands (usually at the MCP and PIP joints), and rapid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this Healio Video Perspective from the Retina Society meeting, Carol Shields, MD, describes an interesting ...

We agree that the PAMS terminology is more inclusive of the heterogeneous clinical presentation and pathophysiology of this disease than the term PNP, particularly in relation to the T cell-mediated ...

For over 100 years, scientists have known that a rare and ugly relationship exists between certain cancers occurring outside the central nervous system and any related nervous system damage. In these ...

Multicyclic, dose-intensive chemotherapy supported by sequential reinfusion of hematopoietic progenitors in whole blood. A retrospective chart review was undertaken for 15 consecutive patients with ...

Background: A 58-year-old woman presented with arthritis of the small joints of her hands and rapidly progressive joint contractures. She was wheelchair bound within 2 months of the onset of her ...