Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to a syndrome or other systemic disturbance associated with but not directly related to a primary tumor or its metastases.
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- adjective medicine
associated with, but not directly related to, atumor
Etymologies
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Interesting case, I recently wrote about a patient we saw with a 3 year diagnosis of MS, turned out to be a paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to a small cell lung cancer.
The Ovarian Teratoma that Caused a Coma aka TBTAM 2008
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How about a movie about a paraneoplastic neurologic disorder?
BLAAAAAAINS 2008
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Guillain-Barre 'syndrome is a paraneoplastic disease also, and it is basically a wide-spread neuropathy, something like acute MS, which it surely is.
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They analyzed the medical records of 56 patients with suspected paraneoplastic neurologic disorders who underwent standard evaluations that did not detect cancer.
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Those diseases are thought to be paraneoplastic, because the underlying inflammatory, autoimmune disease causes the syndrome in question, but also the cancer that somewhat frequently appears with them.
Comments for Biotech Blog biotech 2010
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The rheumatoid diseases are known to be paraneoplastic, especially, dermatomyositis and Wegener's granulomatosis, but in my patients through the years, all patients that developed cancer had, at least, mild rheumatoid arthritis.
Comments for Biotech Blog biotech 2010
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So-called "paraneoplastic neurologic disorders" can occur in people with lung, breast, ovarian and other types of cancer when cancer-fighting antibodies mistakenly attack nervous system cells.
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It wasn't steroids, or lymphoma, or viral hepatitis, or paraneoplastic syndrome - wait, yes, it was that last one.
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The broad field of neuro-ophthalmology encompasses lesions of both the afferent and efferent pathways, which can result from various etiologies: tumoral, paraneoplastic, vascular, inflammatory, infectious, or hereditary, just to name a few.
AvaxHome RSS: Book-er 2010
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Those diseases are thought to be paraneoplastic, because the underlying inflammatory, autoimmune disease causes the syndrome in question, but also the cancer that somewhat frequently appears with them.
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