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 ...

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.

Background: A 58-year-old woman presented with arthritis of the small joints of her hands and rapidly progressive joint contractures. She was wheelchair bound within 2 months of the onset of her ...

Cancer can trigger symptoms that seem as mysterious as their name: paraneoplastic syndromes. In January 2019, Jane Winer was being treated for non-small cell lung cancer near her home in Dallas when ...

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 autoimmune dermatological conditions represent a heterogeneous group of skin and mucosal disorders that arise in the context of an underlying neoplasm. These conditions are not caused ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this Healio Video Perspective from the Retina Society meeting, Carol Shields, MD, describes an interesting ...

89 Zr-bevacizumab PET imaging in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients before and during antiangiogenic treatment. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

Inflammatory musculoskeletal conditions may be the presenting feature in the aging population as part of a paraneoplastic picture. Rare reports of polymyalgia rheumatica (described above) and the more ...