AC will not go away on its own. While it may not look like much in its very early stages, it is serious and requires diagnosis and treatment because it can progress to squamous cell carcinoma. If you ...

(With apologies to Archilochus, 7th century BC.) Figure 1: Histological sections of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. Figure 3: A basic schematic of the Hedgehog (HH ...

Results The p53 mutation acts as a switch to expand progenitor cells and inhibit their differentiation towards metaplasia, but only amidst chronic injury. In L2-IL1β mice, p53 mutation increased ...

Gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM) is a commonly diagnosed precancerous stomach mucosa lesion, associated with increased risk of gastric cancer (GC). Operative Link on Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia ...

Elton 14 noted in such tumors appearing after the menopause definite evidence of secretory activity and a high incidence of squamous metaplasia, suggesting a response of the tumor to a ...

Presumably, the repeated exposure to acid and bile in the refluxate induces tissue injury in the lower esophagus, and the intestinal metaplasia that forms during the healing process likely ...

McDermott first revealed in 2021 that he had squamous cell carcinoma "several times." He added that he also has had basal cell cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, basal cell and ...

Primary hepatic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is extremely rare, and only a few dozen cases have been reported to date. It can barely be diagnosed before histopathological examination, which ...

Although metaplastic Paneth cells are part of the overarching pathology of intestinal metaplasia (IM), only a fraction of intestinal metaplastic lesions contain Paneth cells. We survey literature ...

The quantitative studies of conjunctival goblet cells and squamous metaplasia (SM) of conjunctival epithelial cells were conducted by counting the cells in three randomly selected nonoverlapping ...