A blog about research, awareness, prevention, treatment and survivorship of Breast Cancer and all cancers, including targeted scientific research and a grassroots approach to increase screening for cancer, especially in the low income and under-insured population of El Paso, Texas, with a view to expand this new health care model to many other 'minority' populations across the United States and beyond
Friday, November 14, 2014
ANOTHER INTERESTING CASE...
A 54 Year old hispanic male presented with rectal bleed at an area hospital
and was admitted. A subsequent Colonoscopy reported fragments of Colonic Adenocarcinoma.
The patieent underwent a partial colectomy which revealed an Enteric type Adenocarcinoma Grade 2 (moderatelly differentiated invading the Muscularis propria and into the pericolic fat without involvement of the Serosa
perineurL/VASCULAR/ AND LYMPHATIC INVASION NOT SEEN
13 nodes obtained none with Metastatic disease
the liver contains a calcified granuloma
we elected to observe this patient
since chemotherapy will not benefit him by adding more than 5 % survival rates
Only those with poorly differentiated carcinoma..."T4, perforation or Obstruction, and less than 10 nodes removed, and angiolymphatic invasion" ASCO.
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