OBJECTIVES: To determine the efficacy and tolerability of sunitinib in recurrent or persistent clear cell ovarian cancer patients. METHODS: All patients had one or two prior regimens with measurable disease. Tumors were at least 50% clear …
PURPOSE: We examined disparities in prognosis between patients with ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) and serous epithelial ovarian cancer (SOC). METHODS: We reviewed data from FIGO stage I-IV epithelial ovarian cancer patients who parti…
A 41-year-old woman with a history of endometriosis had breast carcinoma diagnosed and treated with tamoxifen. A pelvic mass was subsequently diagnosed and observed on serial ultrasonographic examinations to increase in size. At surgery ext…
BACKGROUND: In patients with endometrial carcinoma, the use of hysteroscopy may result in malignant peritoneal cytology. The significance of these mechanically disseminated malignant cells is uncertain. CASE: Disseminated endometrial carci…
Metastatic parenchymal splenic disease in patients with ovarian cancer is unusual. It is most commonly seen in the presence of large-volume upper abdominal disease when parenchymal involvement occurs by surface extension. A patient with iso…
Two cases of advanced papillary serous carcinoma of the peritoneum occurred after hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for endometrial carcinoma. Careful resectioning of the original ovarian specimens failed to demonstrate a pre…