January 21, 2010 — Positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) revealed malignant tumors in 18% of patients who had undergone prior evaluations negative for cancer, a new study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increasing diagnoses of paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes in the U.S. correlates to heightened awareness by ...

We report a case of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) associated with adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and anti-Yo antibodies in a male patient. The patient presented with progressive ataxia ...

In a rare but serious complication of cancer, known as anti-Ma2 paraneoplastic neurological syndrome, the body’s own immune system can start attacking the brain, causing rapid-onset memory loss and ...

Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (or paraneoplastic neurological disorders), are a class of conditions which arise due to an autoimmune attack on neural tissue (amongst others) in response to ...

For over 100 years, scientists have known that a rare and ugly relationship exists between certain cancers occurring outside the central nervous system and any related nervous system damage. In these ...

Paraneoplastic syndromes are uncommon disorders that can arise with any cancer type but are more common with lung cancer. Cancer is a complex disease. Even more convoluted: its effects on the body.

Adjuvant radiation therapy to induce a transitory adaptive up-regulation of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) on circulating epithelial tumor cells (CETCs) to affect the anti-tumor immune response in ...

Paraneoplastic syndromes are groups of certain signs and symptoms that develop in some people with cancer. The name comes from the word “para” which means “alongside of,” and “neoplasm,” which means ...