ALLMedicine™ Desmoid Tumor Center

Dec 16th, 2020 - A 74-year-old man with biochemical recurrent prostate cancer underwent F-fluciclovine PET/CT for restaging to determine subsequent treatment strategy. F-fluciclovine PET/CT imaging demonstrated incidental focal heterogeneous increased F-fluciclovi...

Nov 13th, 2020 - Gardner syndrome is a subtype of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), characterized by a combination of adenomatous intestinal polyps and extracolonic lesions such as multiple osteomas, dental abnormalities, and soft tissue tumors. Although 12% o...

Oct 6th, 2020 - Desmoid tumors (DTs) are a rare disease of intermediate malignancy characterized histologically by a locally aggressive, monoclonal, fibroblastic proliferation and clinically by a variable and often unpredictable course. For decades, surgical rese...

Sep 29th, 2020 - OBJECTIVE. The response of desmoid tumors (DTs) to chemotherapy is evaluated with Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1) in daily practice and clinical trials. MRI shows early change in heterogeneity in responding tu...

Aug 28th, 2020 - Intra-abdominal desmoid fibromatosis (also known as desmoid tumor) is a rare benign but often locally aggressive infiltrative fibrous proliferation. Pancreatic desmoid fibromatosis is even rarer, with only 31 cases previously reported in the Engli...

Dec 16th, 2020 - A 74-year-old man with biochemical recurrent prostate cancer underwent F-fluciclovine PET/CT for restaging to determine subsequent treatment strategy. F-fluciclovine PET/CT imaging demonstrated incidental focal heterogeneous increased F-fluciclovi...

Nov 13th, 2020 - Gardner syndrome is a subtype of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), characterized by a combination of adenomatous intestinal polyps and extracolonic lesions such as multiple osteomas, dental abnormalities, and soft tissue tumors. Although 12% o...

Oct 6th, 2020 - Desmoid tumors (DTs) are a rare disease of intermediate malignancy characterized histologically by a locally aggressive, monoclonal, fibroblastic proliferation and clinically by a variable and often unpredictable course. For decades, surgical rese...

Sep 29th, 2020 - OBJECTIVE. The response of desmoid tumors (DTs) to chemotherapy is evaluated with Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1) in daily practice and clinical trials. MRI shows early change in heterogeneity in responding tu...

Sep 9th, 2020 - Doctor after doctor recommended different treatment options for Marlene Portnoy’s husband, Steve, after he was diagnosed with a desmoid tumor. Desmoid tumors are rare, and each doctor admitted uncertainty about treatment plans. “Let me tell you, t...

Feb 6th, 2008 - Action Points Note that bowel transplant has typically been done using cadaver tissue. Inform interested patients that small intestine auto-transplant requires viable, uninvolved bowel and is typically not done when there is a risk of metastasis. ...