Oncology Guide

Large granular lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell that contains granules with enzymes that can kill tumor cells or microbial cells. Also called natural killer cell and NK cell.

Leptomeningeal cancer is a tumor that involves the two innermost meninges (thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord).

Diffuse Stomach Cancer is characterized by the presence of poorly differentiated tumor cells.

The appearance of the stomach is like a leather bottle in the case of Linitis Plastica.[1]

Linitis plastica, also known as Brinton’s disease, is seen in diffuse stomach cancer.

The other causes of linitis plastica could be lye ingestion or metastatic infiltration of the stomach.

This cancer is more common in Asian countries, particularly Japan.

Liposomal daunorubicin is a chemotherapy drug that is FDA approved to treat AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma. It is also commonly used to treat specific types of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Liposomal daunorubicin is intravenously administered. It utilizes the liposomal carrier system that provides a favorable pharmacokinetic profile at the site of KS lesions resulting in a 10-fold increase in concentrations compared to that which is achieved with conventional preparations.

Trade name: DaunoXome

There are several types of liver cancer:
Most cases are metastases from other tumors, frequently of the GI tract (like colon cancer, carcinoid tumors mainly of the appendix, etc.), but also from breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, renal cancer, prostate cancer, etc.
The most frequent, malignant, primary liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma (also named hepatoma, which is a misnomer because adenomas are usually benign).
More rare primary forms of liver cancer include cholangiocarcinoma, mixed tumors, tumors of mesenchymal tissue, sarcoma and hepatoblastoma, a rare malignant tumor in children. liver cancer will heavily affect the abdomen because the liver is the filter and the abdomen will typically remove the excess body waste when th eliver is cancerous, the abdomen will also develop cancer

Liver cancer is characterized by the presence of malignant hepatic tumors — tumors or growths on or in the liver (medical terms pertaining to the liver often start in hepato- or hepatic from the Greek word for liver, hēpar, stem hēpat-). They may be discovered on medical imaging (even for a different reason than the cancer itself), or may be present in patients as an abdominal mass, hepatomegaly, abdominal pain, jaundice, or some other liver dysfunction.

Hepatic Hemangioma are the most common liver tumors, found in up to 7% of autopsy specimens.
A rare tumor is Infantile hemangioendothelioma.
Hepatic Adenoma, mainly in women using estrogens as contraceptives, or in cases of steroid abuse
Focal Nodular Hyperplasia
Nodular regenerative hyperplasia
Hamartoma

Most cases are metastases from other tumors, frequently of the GI tract (like colon cancer, carcinoid tumors mainly of the appendix, etc.), but also from breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, renal cancer, prostate cancer, etc.
The most frequent, malignant, primary liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma (also named hepatoma, which is a misnomer because adenomas are usually benign).
More rare primary forms of liver cancer include cholangiocarcinoma, mixed tumors, tumors of mesenchymal tissue, sarcoma and hepatoblastoma, a rare malignant tumor in children.

There are many forms of liver tumors: