Unlabelled: Sinonasal carcinomas are aggressive neoplasms that present a high morbidity and mortality rate with an unfavorable prognosis. This group of tumors exhibits morphological and genetic diversity. Genetic and epigenetic alterations in these neoplasms are the current targets for diagnosis and treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The evaluation of the quality of life (QoL) of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) is an essential measure to measure the impact of the disease and treatments on the lives of patients. However, in Latin America there is no validated and reliable instrument to assess this construct.
Objectives: This study aims to validate the EORTC QLQ-CR29 instrument in the Mexican population with CRC.
Background: Incidence of young patients (aged 40 years or younger) diagnosed with gastric carcinoma has increased worldwide. Young GC diagnosis, have clinicopathological features that differ from elderly, and is correlated with bad prognosis factors. The purpose of this work is to describe the prevalence, clinic-pathological features, and prognosis of overall survival (OS) of young Latin-American patients with GC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Breast cancer (BC) is a leading cause of mortality and the most frequent malignancy in women, and most deaths are due to metastatic disease, particularly brain metastases (BM). Currently, no biomarker or prediction model is used to predict BM accurately. The objective was to generate a BM prediction model from variables obtained at BC diagnosis.
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