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 ...

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 ...

Background A 63-year-old woman with a history of metastatic breast cancer presented to the emergency department with chest pain in a band-like distribution. Within 1 day of presentation the patient ...

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 ...

Neurologic paraneoplastic manifestations are rarely described in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Most of these appear during the course of treatment. We describe a child who had a ...

Jan. 13 -- TUESDAY, Jan. 12 (HealthDay News) -- A combination whole-body PET-CT scan is more accurate than some other commonly used tests in detecting cancer in patients with neurologic symptoms, ...

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.

Timely intervention led to a recovery in rare diseases. A 43-year-old housewife in South Suburban Kolkata experienced stroke-like symptoms linked to breast cancer. Doctors discovered Paraneoplastic ...