For over 100 years, scientists have known that a rare and ugly relationship exists between certain cancers occurring outside the central nervous system and any related nervous system damage. In these ...

January 21, 2010 — Positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) revealed malignant tumors in 18% of patients who had undergone prior evaluations negative for cancer, a new study ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have reshaped cancer treatment over the past decade, but the same immune activation that shrinks tumors can also turn against healthy tissue, including the brain. A ...

Background: A 58-year-old woman presented with arthritis of the small joints of her hands and rapidly progressive joint contractures. She was wheelchair bound within 2 months of the onset of her ...

A medical expert discusses how Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome is closely linked to small cell lung cancer, the challenges in differentiating it from other neuromuscular disorders like myasthenia ...