Metastatic Adenocarcinomas of the Umbilicus in a Developing Community
Cancer Therapy & Oncology- Juniper Publishers Abstract Popularized as the “Sister Joseph’s nodule” is the metastatic lesion of the umbilicus. Hitherto, cases had been reported worldwide. Therefore, this article aims to document the patterns of it obtained among an ethnic group in a developing community. Incidentally, a few indigenous doctors suspected the lesions to be of the Sister Joseph nodule type. The epidemiological data included equality of sex and the preponderance of adenocarcinomas. Keywords: Carcinoma; Umbilicus; Metastasis; Age; Type; Sister Joseph Nodule Introduction Metastatic carcinoma of the umbilicus gained prominence when, “during the early days of the Mayo Clinic, Sister Mary Joseph, the superintendent of St. Mary’s Hospital and Dr. William Mayo’s frequent first assistant, imparted this clinical observation to Dr. Mayo after noting a firm nodule of the umbilicus in many patients with intra-abdominal cancer” [1