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Article: Report summarizes lung cancer study findings from National Cancer Center Hospital.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- May 5, 2009
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Fresh data on lung cancer are presented in the report 'Clinicopathological analysis of primary lung carcinoma with heterotopic ossification.' "Pulmonary heterotopic ossification is an unusual event. The relationship between ossification and lung carcinoma is unclear," scientists in Tokyo, Japan report (see also Lung Cancer).
"The present study analyzed clinicopathological features of primary lung carcinoma with heterotopic ossification. We reviewed 2269 surgically resected primary lung carcinomas and identified 33 with heterotopic ossification, including 15 cases with intratumoral heterotopic ossification (IHO) and 18 cases with extratumoral heterotopic ...