Not recognising a symptom as suspicious is a common reason given by cancer patients for delayed help-seeking; but inevitably this is retrospective. We therefore investigated associations between recognition of warning signs for breast, colorectal and lun
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More than 60% of cancers in the US are diagnosed following symptomatic presentation [5]. While some symptoms are specific for certain cancers (e.g., breast lump for breast cancer and rectal bleeding for colorectal cancer) and suggest a clear diagnostic evaluation pathway, nonspecific signs and/...
Notably, the ovarian-like stroma may not be detected on cyst fluid obtained through EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA), but rather only in the surgical specimen [19,20,21]. However, intriguingly, the identification of ovarian stroma using EUS-guided through-the-needle biopsy forceps ...