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Serum levels of CA 15-3, mucinous-like cancer antigen, carcinoembryonic antigen, tissue polypeptide antigen and tissue polypeptide-specific antigen (TPS) have been determined in 99 patients with T2-4 N0-1 M0 breast cancer (BC) before and after primary (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy and after surgery. As a whole, no difference in marker levels was apparent according to tumor and patient characteristics, with the only exception of TPS values, which showed an inverse relationship with the histologic grade. Serum marker levels did not substantially change with respect to baseline either after chemotherapy, despite the high response rate obtained, or after surgery. These data indicate a limited contribution of the primary tumor to the serum marker levels and are consistent for the scarce usefulness of marker evaluation in BC patients with an early stage of disease. Interestingly, pretreatment elevated CA 15-3 levels were correlated with a higher recurrence rate, further supporting the prognostic significance of this tumor marker.
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PMID:Influence of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on serum tumor markers CA 15-3, MCA, CEA, TPS and TPA in breast cancer patients with operable disease. 927 30

In this communication five cases of pure primary squamous-cell carcinoma of the breast are presented in which the diagnosis was made by fine-needle aspiration cytology. All patients were women. The aspiration cytodiagnosis was further confirmed by subsequent examination of cell blocks from the aspirated material and biopsy of the breast mass. The cytohistologic features in all cases were characterized by numerous malignant squamous cells with keratinizing cytoplasm, hyperchromatic dense nuclei, coarse chromatin, thickened nuclear membranes, keratin debris, and background necrosis. The identification of malignant squamous cells as predominant cells in aspirate samples from the breast is quite important and should be followed by a search for other sources of a primary tumor before a diagnosis of pure primary squamous-cell carcinoma of the breast is accepted. The value of immunocytochemical study despite immunopositivity for cytokeratin and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) and immunonegativity for carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and B72.3 was considered to be somewhat uncertain.
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PMID:Cytodiagnosis of pure primary squamous-cell carcinoma of the breast by fine-needle aspiration cytology. 928 91

Satisfactory therapeutic effects are rarely obtained with oral chemotherapy for gastric cancer. We have experienced successful treatment for synchronous hepatic metastasis of gastric cancer with 5'-DFUR and Lentinan. The patient was a 78-year-old female, diagnosed as having gastric cancer with multiple hepatic metastases, who underwent gastrectomy. Immunohistochemistry of the resected specimens with anti-thymidine phosphorylase (dThdPase) antibody yielded positive results for dThdPase in the primary tumor as well as the hepatic metastases. Two months after surgery, administration of 400 mg of 5'-DFUR per day and 2 mg i.v. of Lentinan every other week was started. Four months after discharge, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in plasma showed an abrupt logarithmic decline. Furthermore, a 99% reduction in hepatic metastases was demonstrated by abdominal CT. At present, 22 months after surgery, the patient is managed on an outpatient basis with no complaints of any side effects. Immunochemotherapy using 5'-DFUR and Lentinan may be effective against gastric malignancies expressing dThdPase activity.
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PMID:[Successful treatment of hepatic metastasis of gastric cancer with 5'-DFUR and Lentinan]. 946 40

Most ocular tumors metastasize from systemic origins in breast carcinoma in females, and bronchial carcinoma in males. Here, we report a case of choroidal carcinoma metastasis from the breast with visual problems being the only initial manifestations. In this case, both eyes were involved at almost the same time, with initial manifestation of blurred vision which progressed to complete visual loss. At first, the patient was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, and enucleation of the right eye was performed in another hospital. However, the tumor had already metastasized rapidly to numerous organs, including the lungs, brain and bone, although it had not affected the liver. Clinical presentations were, therefore, not compatible with those of malignant melanoma, which has usually been reported to metastasize to the liver. Persistent hypercalcemia and raised carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) concentrations prompted investigations into the possibility of systemic malignancy. A very small breast nodule was finally located by thorough physical examination, and a lumpectomy was performed. A detailed review of the histopathology showed the tumors from the breast and the right eye to have the same origin. Simultaneous bilateral choroidal metastases from other malignancies is not uncommon; however, it is quite rare for breast carcinoma to present with visual problems as a first manifestation. Detailed history taking and physical examination are therefore essential when searching for a primary tumor, so that appropriate therapy can be given earlier.
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PMID:Bilateral choroidal metastases as the initial presentation of a small breast carcinoma: a case report. 953 72

Five cases of ovarian metastases of intestinal adenocarcinomas that suggested the diagnosis of clear cell adenocarcinoma or the secretory variant of endometrioid carcinoma of the ovary are reported. Patient age ranged from 27 to 71 years at the time of diagnosis of the ovarian neoplasms. In four, the ovarian and intestinal tumors were discovered synchronously, and, in the fifth, the ovarian metastasis occurred 1 year after the intestinal primary was diagnosed. The ovarian tumors were unilateral in three patients and bilateral in two. They were up to 18 cm (mean, 12 cm) in maximum dimension and were characterized on microscopic evaluation by glands and cysts lined by cells whose most striking feature was abundant clear cytoplasm. In two cases, striking subnuclear or supranuclear vacuoles were present. An important clue to the diagnosis of metastatic intestinal adenocarcinoma was the presence in all cases of "dirty necrosis." The metastatic nature of the ovarian tumors was supported by the immunohistochemical findings. All tumors stained were strongly positive for carcinoembryonic antigen and cytokeratin 20 and failed to stain for CA125, whereas staining for HAM56 and cytokeratin 7 was absent or only focally positive in one case each. Three intestinal primary tumors involved the small bowel. Microscopic evaluation of the intestinal tumors in three cases and metastases in a fourth, in which the intestinal primary was not resected, showed the features of the uncommon clear cell variant of intestinal adenocarcinoma; the fifth was predominantly a conventional intestinal adenocarcinoma with only a focal clear cell component. Although intestinal adenocarcinomas metastatic in the ovary typically simulate endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the usual type or mucinous adenocarcinoma, they may mimic either primary clear cell adenocarcinoma or the secretory variant of endometrioid adenocarcinoma, particularly when the primary tumor is, even focally, the clear cell variant of intestinal adenocarcinoma.
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PMID:Metastatic intestinal carcinomas simulating primary ovarian clear cell carcinoma and secretory endometrioid carcinoma: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of five cases. 966 43

In a case histologically proven prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma with endometrioid features associated with rectal invasion and multiple liver metastases the expression of prostate specific antigen (PSA) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was studied immunohistochemically on paraffin sections to clarify markedly elevated PSA and relatively elevated CEA in sera. All of prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma with endometrioid features, rectal invasion and liver metastases gave positive staining for PSA. Although rectal invasion and liver metastases gave positive staining for CEA, the primary tumor was never stained for CEA. Further study is necessary to clarify any significance of CEA within the cancer cell.
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PMID:[A case of prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma with endometrioid features, associated with rectal invasion and multiple liver metastases]. 979 60

Twenty-one patients with histologically proven locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) were treated with a combined modality approach based on primary chemotherapy and radical modified mastectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. Surgery was performed by using radioimmunoguided surgery (RIGS) technique with the preoperative injection of Iodine-125 labeled monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) B72.3 anti-TAG (11 patients, Group A) and FO23C5 anti-carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA; 10 patients, Group B). The role of RIGS was defined at surgery by using an intraoperative hand-held gamma-detecting probe (GDP) to locate the primary tumor, possible clinically occult multicentric foci and ipsilateral lymph node metastases. In Group A, RIGS correctly defined the primary tumor in seven out of 11 patients (63.3%) and was able to find multicentric tumors in two out of four patients (50%). Positive lymph nodes were identified by RIGS in three out of eight patients (37.5%). In Group B, patients RIGS correctly located the primary in 4/10 cases (40%); in two RIGS-positive cases, the tumor was clinically not evident after primary chemotherapy (yT0). RIGS correctly identified multicentric foci of tumor in one out of two cases (50%). Correct lymph nodal RIGS assessment was observed in three out of nine patients (33.3%). No RIGS false-positive findings occurred in the 21 patients included in the study. RIGS appears to be a reliable technique for the intraoperative diagnosis and staging of breast cancer with a potential role especially when conservative surgery is planned after primary chemotherapy in LABC.
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PMID:Use of radioimmunoguided surgery after induction chemotherapy in locally advanced breast cancer. 982 81

Clinically evident metastases of carcinomas to the thyroid gland are rare, particularly from a colorectal primary tumor. We present a case of colonic adenocarcinoma metastatic to the thyroid gland with histopathologic and immunohistochemical findings. A 68-year-old woman with a history of Dukes' stage B colon carcinoma presented a mass in the thyroid gland. The tumor was confirmed to be metastatic adenocarcinoma from the colon. The immunohistochemical findings demonstrated positive staining for cytokeratin 20, low-molecular-weight cytokeratin, villin and carcinoembryonic antigen, but stains were negative for cytokeratin 7 and thyroglobulin.
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PMID:Colonic adenocarcinoma metastatic to the thyroid gland: a case report with immunohistochemical investigation. 1048 29

Salivary duct carcinoma is a highly malignant adenocarcinoma of salivary origin. Its pathologic features are distinct from the other salivary gland tumors and bear a remarkable histologic resemblance to ductal breast carcinoma. The clinical course is rapid and the prognosis is dismal. Aggressive therapy is warranted, including primary tumor resection, cervical neck dissection, and radiotherapy. We present a case of salivary duct carcinoma of parotid origin with a very long-term evolution in clear contrast to its supposed aggressiveness. Tumor cells expressed low- and high-molecular-weight cytokeratins, epithelial membrane antigen, carcinoembryonic antigen, and c-erbB-2 but not estrogen and progesterone receptors, actin, and S-100.
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PMID:Salivary duct carcinoma: an unusual case of long-term evolution. 1055 56

Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels in the culture supernatant of the 65 pulmonary carcinoma cell lines: Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) 18, large cell carcinoma 14, squamous cell carcinoma 14, adenocarcinoma 14 and adenosquamous cell carcinoma 5, were measured by a radioimmunoassay (RIA). The mean value of NSE was 30.8+/-22.4 ng/ml and 9.2+/-8.7 ng/ml in SCLC and non-SCLC, respectively. The mean value of CEA was 15.1+/-20.9 ng/ml and 26.6+/-72.3 ng/ml in SCLC and non-SCLC, respectively. A significant difference in NSE levels was obtained between SCLC cell lines and non-SCLC cell lines. In SCLC cell lines, a significant inverse proportional correlation was observed between NSE and CEA levels. The CEA production tended to be higher in cells with low levels of NSE than in those with high NSE production. With respect to correlation between marker production and growth characteristics of SCLC cells in vitro, significantly higher NSE and lower CEA levels were found in cells growing with floating colony or neurite like characteristics (classic cell type) than those in cells with epithelial or intermediate growth characteristics (variant cell type). A significant positive correlation between NSE levels and the survival periods was found in follow-up studies of 10 patients who underwent surgery with complete resection of the primary tumor. All of 4 long term survivors over 3 years after surgery had significantly high NSE and relatively low CEA producing tumors. The relationship of these markers to clinical status of the patient suggests that an analysis for correlation of NSE and CEA levels in SCLC patients may be useful to discriminate between a pure neuroendocrine SCLC tumor and a mixed small cell/large cell tumor, and in monitoring therapeutic effect and prognosis of each patient.
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PMID:The significance of NSE and CEA as a differentiation marker for the cellular heterogeneity of small cell lung cancer. 1062 7


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