Emergencies in oncology: an overview and practical suggestions.

Oncologic emergencies are clinical situations that can lead to death in a short time (24-48 hours) if not quickly faced. In the clinical practice of the medical oncologist, such situations do not infrequently occur. The onset of oncologic emergencies may depend on the presence of cancer itself, the therapies carried out to counteract cancer, or the patient’s predisposition to develop such events.

Management of Ewing Sarcoma Family of Tumors: A Short Description of a Rare Primitive Uterine pPNET and Literature Review.

Purpose: To describe the outcome of a patient with a rare primitive uterine pPNET and to perform a review of the available data in literature, leading the clinicians to better face this rare disease.

Methods: We have rescued data regarding the multidisciplinary treatment of pPNET from the PUBMED database, highlighting also issues regarding the pathogenesis and the genetic landscape of the ESFTs (Ewing Sarcoma Family of Tumors).

Results: Ewing sarcoma and primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs) are small round cell tumors presenting with different degrees of neuroectodermal differentiation.