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Physical Examination: General: The patient is an alert, oriented male appearing his stated age. He appears to be in moderate distress. Vital signs: blood pressure 132/78 and pulse 68 and regular. Temperature is 38.56 oC (101.4 oF). HEENT:Normocephalic, atraumatic. Pupils were equal, round, and reactive to light. Ears are clear. Throat is normal. Neck: The neck is supple with no carotid bruits. Lungs: The lungs are clear to auscultation and percussion. Heart: Regular rate and rhythm. Abdomen:Bowel sounds are normal. There is rebound tenderness with maximal discomfort on palpation in the right lower quadrant. Extremities: No clubbing, cyanosis, or edema.

A chest X-ray and CT scan result demonstrated a cavitation of the right lower pulmonary lobe. This result alone along with Bob’s history of smoking is a big red flag related to lung cancer. Bob’s history reveals that he has been smoking a ½ pack or more per day for 37 years. According to a study done on the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of lung cancer, habitual smokers have the highest risk of developing cancer of the lung than any other cancer (Herth, Eberhardt, Ernst, 2006). The study also concludes that a related association with lung cancer is swelling of the tissue, lung tumors and/cavitation, lymph in the bronchioles, and paratracheal areas. The swelling can lead to an obstructed airway, which matches Bob’s symptoms as well. Chest pain, stridor, and chest pain are all indications of complications in the respiratory system.

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She reports a history of back pain, ovarian cysts excision, and breast tumor. She denies chest pain, shortness of breath, or palpitations. Patient reports that her immunizations and preventive care are up to

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RECIST 1.0 was introduced in 2000 as a standardised method to evaluate response to treatment with chemotherapeutic agents(Patrick Therasse, Richard S. Kaplan et al. 2000). This has been further updated in 2009 (Eisenhauer, Therasse et al. 2009). Treatment response defined by RECIST depends solely on size change of the target tumours. It looks at the change in size of the sum of uni-dimensional measurements of tumour target lesions performed with a specific imaging modality.

The frequency of adenosquamous carcinoma is between 0.4-4% of lung carcinomas {586,909,1445,1867,1950,2203}. Clinical presentation and behaviour is similar to adenocarcinoma with a majority of the patients being smokers

Animals: Our team will inject 6-week-old female SCID mice with HER2-positive SK-BR-3 or HER2-negative MDA-MB-231. The left flank of each animal will be injected subcutaneously with 5×106 cancer cells mixed with Matrigel Matrix. We will monitor tumor growth at 3-day intervals by measuring the length and the width of the tumor with a caliper as well as calculating the tumor volume on the basis of the following formula: V = 0.5ab2, using the longest (a) and shortest (b) diameters of the tumor. When the tumor volume reaches approximately 100 mm3, we will randomly assign the mice to the experimental groups as detailed below.

variants that are related to the risks, as well as provided proof of polygenic susceptibility.

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Tumors and tumor-like lesions usually been discussed in a large category, because their appearances sometimes are similar and make differential diagnosis extremely difficult. But tumors are non-neoplastic lesions, while tumor-like lesions are not, therefore, treatment and prognosis of these two groups of disorders are usually different. The incidences of tumors and tumor-like lesions have big differences in literature, this may due to the classification of benign, malignant and non-neoplastic conditions usually overlap (Casadei et al., 2013; Pluot, 2009). In addition, some cases are asymptomatic may give the possibility of ignorance, delayed or incorrect diagnose of these conditions (Casadei et al., 2013) also make the real incidence of