Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisés Broggi, Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Spain.
Hospital Durán i Reynals (ICO-L'Hospitalet), Barcelona, Spain.
Clin Transl Oncol. 2018 Jan;20(1):89-96. doi: 10.1007/s12094-017-1807-y. Epub 2017 Dec 11.
Cancer of unknown primary site is a histologically confirmed cancer that manifests in advanced stage, with no identifiable primary site following standard diagnostic procedures. Patients are initially categorized based on the findings of the initial biopsy: adenocarcinoma, squamous-cell carcinoma, neuroendocrine carcinoma, and poorly differentiated carcinoma. Appropriate patient management requires understanding several clinical and pathological features that aid in identifying several subsets of patients with more responsive tumors.
原发灶不明的癌症是一种组织学确诊的癌症,表现为晚期,经过标准诊断程序后仍无法确定原发灶。患者最初根据初始活检的结果进行分类:腺癌、鳞状细胞癌、神经内分泌癌和低分化癌。适当的患者管理需要了解几个临床和病理特征,这些特征有助于确定具有更敏感肿瘤的几个亚组患者。