CancerWORLD Cancer Treatment Research Journal

Learn all about focal nodular hyperplasia. Focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) is a regenerative mass lesion of the liver and the second most common benign liver lesion (most common is a hemangioma). Many FNHs have characteristic radiographic features in multimodality imaging, but some lesions may be atypical in appearance. FNHs are ...

Learn all about mucous retention cyst symptoms, causes and treatment. Mucous retention cyst is also known with the names like mucocele and mucous cyst. Mucous retention cyst can occur in many regions of the body like the maxillary sinuses, sphenoid sinuses, lips, vocal cords, tonsils, salivary glands, etc. The appearance ...

Learn all about bartholin gland cyst causes and treatment with home remedies. The two Bartholin’s glands are located at the entrance to a woman’s vagina, one on each side. They are small and cannot be seen or felt when they are normal. Their function is to secrete fluid onto the ...

Learn all about Schwannomas. A schwannoma is a spinal tumor that arises from the lining of the nerve cells of the spine A schwannoma develops from cells called Schwann cells, a cell that wraps itself around peripheral nerves and provides protection and support. Schwannomas are almost always benign (not cancerous), ...

Read all about angiomyolipoma (AML). It is a benign tumor that is a mixture of blood vessels (angio), smooth muscles (myo) and fat (or lipoma). The tumor is seen among Arachnoid granulations. Angiomyolipomas (AML’s) occur only in the kidneys is not correct. AMLs are benign mesenchymal tumors, composed of blood ...

Learn all about neoplasia and its types. There is no single mechanism by which a neoplasm arises. Many different mechanisms give rise to neoplasms, and that is what makes diagnosis and treatment so challenging. Neoplasia is new growth. The terms benign and malignant correlate to the course of the neoplasm. ...

Learn all about neoplasm (malignant and benign) of breast, prostate, colon and skin. A tumor is an abnormal growth of cells that serves no purpose. A benign tumor is not a malignant tumor, which is cancer. It does not invade nearby tissue or spread to other parts of the body ...

Learn all about HTLV (Human T Lymphotropic Virus). Human T-cell Lymphotropic virus (HTLV) was the first human retrovirus discovered. HTLV belongs to the Retroviridae family in the genus Deltaretrovirus. Retroviruses are RNA viruses that use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to produce DNA from RNA. The DNA is subsequently incorporated ...

Learn all about Hashimoto’s disease sometimes also referred to as a neuroendocrine disorder, although the condition’s relationship to the endocrine system is widely disputed. A relapsing encephalopathy occurring in association with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, with high titers of anti-thyroid antibodies.is called hashimoto’s disease. Hashimoto’s encephalopathy, also known as steroid responsive encephalopathy ...

Learn all about autoimmune encephalitis. The major role of our immune system is to recognize and get rid of infection. But sometimes some components of the immune system, called antibodies, may instead react with proteins in our own body causing an autoimmune disease. When this reaction is against proteins in ...