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 ...

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 ...

In a rare but serious complication of cancer, known as anti-Ma2 paraneoplastic neurological syndrome, the body’s own immune system can start attacking the brain, causing rapid-onset memory loss and ...

Bazex syndrome, also known as acrokeratosis paraneoplastica, is a rare paraneoplastic dermatosis that frequently heralds the presence of an underlying malignancy, most notably squamous cell carcinomas ...

Paraneoplastic syndromes are a group of disorders associated with tumors that are prevalent in patients with lymphatic, lung, ovarian or breast cancers.