{"title":"Is BHCG a good tumor marker for aggressive uterine leiomyosarcoma? case report","authors":"Sarah Alrubaish, M. Renaud","doi":"10.15406/JCPCR.2020.11.00426","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An elevation of BHCG has been documented only in rare case reports of mesenchymal tumors, however, it is usually found to be high in germ cell tumors. 1 BHCG production in patients with mesenchymal tumors has been discussed as a paraneoplastic phenomenon as well as associated with bad prognoses. 2,3","PeriodicalId":15185,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer Prevention & Current Research","volume":"248 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Cancer Prevention & Current Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15406/JCPCR.2020.11.00426","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An elevation of BHCG has been documented only in rare case reports of mesenchymal tumors, however, it is usually found to be high in germ cell tumors. 1 BHCG production in patients with mesenchymal tumors has been discussed as a paraneoplastic phenomenon as well as associated with bad prognoses. 2,3