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[29 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
Testicular Cancer

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The discovery and use of Platinum based chemotherapy as part of a combination of drugs has transformed Testicular Cancer into a major success story over the last 30 years. It has gone from a sub 10% success rate to well above 90%. So why doesn’t this work with other cancers?
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Image is of Mr. Testicle

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[25 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
Composite Extrarenal Rhabdoid Tumours

Not the most catchy of titles. The only reason for including this one at the moment is that it was an added complication to Matt’s particular cancer. The image is of ‘ordinary’ epithelial cells. [1]
Matt’s first pathology result included the following: -
“Microscopic Report
Viable tumour cells are seen which in places form pseudo-rosettes around vessels and are characterised by an anaplastic rhabdoid morphology with abundant refractile intracytoplasmic globules. Many of the cells show multinucleation and many also show very prominent amphophillic nucleoli. Small numbers of mature lymphocytes are scattered throughout the …