Hypercalcemia affects up to 30% of patients with cancer. 1 It has been seen in most cancers but is most common in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, multiple myeloma, head and ...

Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is the most common metabolic complication seen in patients with cancer, and is associated with a high degree of morbidity and mortality. It affects an estimated 2%–30 ...

New research attempts to answer some of the mystery related to the causes and impact of hypercalcemia in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Hypercalcemia is caused by many factors in ...

September 19, 2007--Cinacalcet ( Sensipar, Amgen) may emerge as an important new therapeutic option for patients with inoperable parathyroid carcinoma, researchers report. According to the results of ...

Hypercalcemia is most common in those who have later-stage malignancies and predicts a poor prognosis for those with it. The most common causes include humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy mediated by ...

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HYPERCALCEMIA occurs in a wide variety of diseases (for example, hyperparathyroidism, hypervitaminosis D, sarcoid, cancer, hyperthyroidism and poliomyelitis) 1 and is often responsible for many of the ...

Paraneoplastic syndromes are rarely seen in gynecological tumors especially in endometrial cancer. Early identification of paraneoplastic syndromes plays a significant role in the treatment and ...

Few papers, which are case reports or series of symptomatic cases, reported data on hypercalcemia in patients with prostate cancer. 10, 11, 12, 13 To our knowledge no ...

Background A 54-year-old man presented to the emergency department of his local hospital with a 1-year history of fatigue, weight loss, and constipation. He had abused alcohol for many years, and his ...

Parathyroid cancer is a very rare type of cancer that starts in the parathyroid gland. It can cause hyperparathyroidism, which can result in high calcium levels in the blood. The most common treatment ...