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      Cancer of unknown primary origin 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1997)
      About 3 % of all cancer patients suffer from cancer of unknown primary origin. These patients present with metastatic disease for which a primary site cannot be detected at the time of diagnosis. Sophisticated diagnostic ...
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      Cancer of Unknown Primary origin in the genomic era: Elucidating the dark box of cancer 

      Economopoulou, P.; Mountzios, G.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (2015)
      Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP) comprises a heterogeneous disease group with diagnosis of metastatic malignancy in the absence of an identifiable primary site after diagnostic work up. CUP may either resemble a specific ...
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      Cancer of unknown primary site 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (2012)
      Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is a well recognised clinical disorder, accounting for 3-5 of all malignant epithelial tumours. CUP is clinically characterised as an aggressive disease with early dissemination. ...
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      Positive urinary cytology in patients with lung cancer in the absence of obvious urine tract metastases 

      Voulgaris, E.; Pentheroudakis, George; Pappa, L.; Bafa, M.; Goussia, Anna; Dalezis, P.; Tsombanidou, C.; Geromichalos, G.; Papageorgiou, A.; Koutsilieris, M.; Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki D.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2011)
      Purpose: To study the phenomenon of positive urine cytology in patients with lung cancer in the absence of obvious urothelial metastases. Patients and methods: 150 patients with small (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer ...