Carly Stafford Dixon, discusses how she approached fertility preservation after her diagnosis of primary mediastinal b-cell lymphoma, a rare blood cancer.

Common malignancies associated with SVC syndrome include lung cancer, lymphoma and solid tumors with mediastinal metastases (e.g. breast cancer). Nonmalignant etiologies of SVC syndrome include ...

Other symptoms include dysphagia, dysphonia, superior vena cava syndrome, Horner's syndrome ... Plain chest radiographs show a mediastinal mass. The CT will show the exact location and extent of the ...

Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome is a set of symptoms that occur ... The spread of other tumors, such as breast cancer to lymph nodes in the mediastinum (the area of the chest between the lungs) can ...

10 Patients with primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma may ... mediastinal mass compresses the trachea. This mass can also cause a blockage of the superior vena cava, triggering superior vena cava ...

There was 0% residual stenosis and immediate clinical improvement. Oncological workup confirmed the right mediastinal mass to be a recurrence of squamous cell carcinoma. SVC syndrome occurred due to ...

Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) is when something -- usually a cancerous tumor -- blocks or pinches the superior vena cava, a major vein that carries blood from your chest, neck, and head to ...

The length of the clinical target volume (CTV) was defined by the length of the mediastinal disease before immunochemotherapy, whereas the width of the CTV corresponded to the width of the residual ...

These conditions include hyperleukocytosis, tumor lysis syndrome, superior vena cava syndrome, superior mediastinal syndrome, intracranial hypertension, spinal cord compression, and febrile ...

16 Mediastinal masses may enlarge to compress the trachea, superior vena cava, lungs, and heart, causing tracheal obstruction, superior vena cava syndrome, pleural or pericardial effusions, and ...

or superior vena cava syndrome. 1,13 Thymic neuroendocrine tumors may be associated with endocrinopathies or symptoms caused by distant metastases. Most mediastinal cysts are benign and do not ...

At 3 months, the patient had no symptoms or signs of the SVC syndrome, and repeated contrast-enhanced computed tomography demonstrated venous patency and substantial shrinking of the mediastinal tumor ...