Pulmonary blastoma in a pregnant woman: a case report and brief review of the literature.

Background: Pulmonary blastoma (PB) comprises a rare heterogeneous group of lung tumours typically containing immature epithelial and mesenchymal structures that imitate the embryonic lung tissue and extremely rarely occurs during pregnancy. Although cough and haemoptysis are the most common PB symptoms, they usually indicate other serious pregnancy-related complications.

Case Presentation: The article presents the unusual case of a 22-year-old pregnant woman diagnosed with PB during pregnancy.

Histopathological analysis of mucinous breast cancer subtypes and comparison with invasive carcinoma of no special type.

Mucinous breast cancer (MBC) is a rare histological type of breast cancer characterized primarily by mucin's production and extracellular presence. MBC is usually associated with a better prognosis than other invasive breast neoplasms. Because of the low prevalence, MBC biology is not well understood.

Immunohistochemical evaluation of osteopontin expression in triple-negative breast cancer.

Introduction: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is associated with lack of expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors and HER2 and is the subgroup of breast cancers with the worst prognosis. Osteopontin is a phosphorylated glycoprotein whose overexpression may occur in pathological states such as cancers. The main purpose of our study was to evaluate the immunohistochemical expression of osteopontin in connection with the analysis of recognized clinical and pathological prognostic factors in primary sites of TNBC with and without lymph node metastases.

Clinicopathological factors associated with novel prognostic markers for patients with triple negative breast cancer.

Introduction: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is characterized by a worse prognosis than other breast cancer subtypes. TNBC is defined by lack of expression of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. The aim of this analysis was to evaluate the relationship between immunohistochemical expression of novel prognostic markers (erythropoietin (EPO) and erythropoietin receptor (EPO-R)) and clinicopathological features of TNBC and non-TNBC patients.

Causes of delays in breast cancer diagnosis in Poland.

Unlabelled: Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women. The results of breast cancer treatment to a large extent depend on the time of the primary diagnosis of the disease.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the most common causes of the delay and the delay time in the diagnosis of breast cancer in Polish women.

Medullary breast cancer is a predominantly triple-negative breast cancer - histopathological analysis and comparison with invasive ductal breast cancer.

Introduction: Medullary breast cancer (MdBC) is an uncommon type of breast cancer representing 1-7% of all cases. It is characterized by the occurrence of many histopathological features associated with a high grade of malignancy.

Material And Methods: Twelve MdBCs chosen from a group of 1,122 women suffering from invasive breast cancer were analyzed.

Immunohistochemical characteristics of basal-like breast cancer.

Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC) occurs mainly in young patients. It is characterized by an aggressive clinical outcome, presence of distant metastases, particularly within the first five years of the disease, bad prognosis and relatively high mortality. Recently greater interest of scientists in this subtype of breast cancer has been observed.

Selected tumor markers in the routine diagnosis of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma.

Renal cell carcinoma is one of the most malignant tumors, affecting men more frequently than women and constituting nearly 90% of all kidney tumors. Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma has been described as a new histological type of renal cell carcinoma. Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma constitutes up to 5% of all cases of kidney cancer.

Hypoxia in breast cancer.

Breast cancer continues to be one of the most common malignancies and is a serious problem particularly in women, although men may also be affected. Such lesions are commonly accompanied by hypoxia, and therefore hypoxia-dependent mechanisms, such as overexpression of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), the mechanisms are studied as part of the search for a novel method of cancer treatment. Blocking the activity of HIF and HIF-dependent molecular changes raises hopes for identification of a molecular target to inhibit the tumor growth or even to completely prevent its progression.