A unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report

Spontaneous regression of cancer is a rare, but well documented, phenomenon. We present a unique case of an 82 year old Chinese male who experienced spontaneous regression of histologically-verified metastatic type II papillary renal cell carcinoma in the absence of intervening systemic therapy or s...

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Autores principales: Lim, Rebecca, Tan, Puay Hoon, Cheng, Christopher, Agasthian, Thirugnanam, Tan, Hwei Ling, Teh, Bin Tean, Tan, Min-Han
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Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918481
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7769
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author Lim, Rebecca
Tan, Puay Hoon
Cheng, Christopher
Agasthian, Thirugnanam
Tan, Hwei Ling
Teh, Bin Tean
Tan, Min-Han
author_facet Lim, Rebecca
Tan, Puay Hoon
Cheng, Christopher
Agasthian, Thirugnanam
Tan, Hwei Ling
Teh, Bin Tean
Tan, Min-Han
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description Spontaneous regression of cancer is a rare, but well documented, phenomenon. We present a unique case of an 82 year old Chinese male who experienced spontaneous regression of histologically-verified metastatic type II papillary renal cell carcinoma in the absence of intervening systemic therapy or surgery. This is the first reported case of spontaneous regression of papillary renal cell carcinoma. The mechanism of spontaneous regression remains unknown, and represents a challenge for existing oncology paradigms.
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spelling pubmed-27693712009-11-16 A unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report Lim, Rebecca Tan, Puay Hoon Cheng, Christopher Agasthian, Thirugnanam Tan, Hwei Ling Teh, Bin Tean Tan, Min-Han Cases J Case report Spontaneous regression of cancer is a rare, but well documented, phenomenon. We present a unique case of an 82 year old Chinese male who experienced spontaneous regression of histologically-verified metastatic type II papillary renal cell carcinoma in the absence of intervening systemic therapy or surgery. This is the first reported case of spontaneous regression of papillary renal cell carcinoma. The mechanism of spontaneous regression remains unknown, and represents a challenge for existing oncology paradigms. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2769371/ /pubmed/19918481 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7769 Text en © 2009 Lim et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Lim, Rebecca
Tan, Puay Hoon
Cheng, Christopher
Agasthian, Thirugnanam
Tan, Hwei Ling
Teh, Bin Tean
Tan, Min-Han
A unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title A unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_full A unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_fullStr A unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_short A unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_sort unique case of spontaneous regression of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918481
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7769
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