Signet ring cell carcinoma and mucinous carcinoma are related subtypes of colorectal adenocarcinoma, but have molecular features distinct from each other.

It’s been historically tough to treat signet ring cell carcinomas, but in select patients, surgery and a new method of delivering chemotherapy have been making a difference.

Signet cell cancer Signet cell cancer is a rare type of cancer that mostly starts in the glandular cells. It is also called signet ring cell cancer. Nearly 57 out of 100 (57%) of all signet cell ...

Their study revolved around analyzing signet-ring cell carcinoma patients from the SEER database to see how effective adjuvant chemotherapy was. This database covered a large percent of the North ...

"By the time a typical diagnosis of a signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach is made, the entire stomach is engulfed in tumor," Gushchin explained.

Figure 1. A 35-year-old man with a four-month history of recurrent back pain and progressive paresthesia of both legs presented with microcytic anemia and a 10-fold elevation of alkaline phosphatas ...

Signet ring cell carcinomas develop in the organs of the GI tract: the stomach, appendix, colon, bladder and pancreas. The cancer gets its name from the ring appearance the cells take on under the ...

Background: Signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) of the urinary bladder is a rare entity. Recent case series of the condition showed inconsistent results. We used a population-based data set to compare ...

529 Background: Colorectal signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) has been associated with a poor survival compared to mucinous adenocarcinoma (MC) and the common adenocarcinoma (AC). Prognostic impact of ...

A little-known type of cancer affecting the appendix is on the rise, especially among people born in the 1980s. A new study from Vanderbilt University found that millennials (aged 35 to 45) are now ...

Signet ring cell carcinomas develop in the organs of the GI tract: the stomach, appendix, colon, bladder and pancreas. The cancer gets its name from the ring appearance the cells take on under the ...