Browsing by Subject "Busulfan"
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Cancer and pregnancy: What should we know about the management with systemic treatment of pregnant women with cancer?
(2011)The incidence of cancer during pregnancy is a rare phenomenon and is estimated to occur in 1:1000 pregnancies. This co-existence is likely to rise since the delay of childbearing to the later reproductive age is nowadays ...
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Coexistence of pregnancy and malignancy
(2002)Cancer complicating pregnancy is a rare coexistence. The incidence is approximately 1 in 1,000 pregnancies. The most common cancers are those more frequently seen during the reproductive age of a woman. Breast cancer, ...
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Juvenile cancer: Improving care for adolescents and young adults within the frame of medical oncology
(2005)Despite unique tumour epidemiology, a higher cancer incidence and modest survival improvement compared to paediatric patients, adolescents and young adults aged 15-30 have not been considered as a separate, 'special' group ...
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Late toxicity in survivors from adolescent cancers
(2007)Nowadays three quarters of adolescents with cancer are cured but half of them experience a late toxic effect of antineoplastic therapy that interferes with their physical and psychosocial health. This review recapitulates ...
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Levels of absolute survival benefit for systemic therapies of advanced cancer: A call for standards
(2003)Research on systemic interventions in patients with advanced stage malignancies should be systematised with an emphasis on the absolute gain in survival for the median patient. Such information is most meaningful with ...
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Survival benefits with diverse chemotherapy regimens for ovarian cancer: Meta-analysis of multiple treatments
(2006)Background: Numerous randomized trials have compared different chemotherapy regimens in women with ovarian cancer. Although ovarian cancer survival has improved in recent years, the magnitude of these incremental benefits ...
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Treatment of the pregnant mother with cancer: A systematic review on the use of cytotoxic, endocrine, targeted agents and immunotherapy during pregnancy. Part II: Hematological tumors
(2010)Managing pregnant patients with hematological tumors pose even more conflicts compared to solid tumors. Unlike the majority of solid tumors, hematological malignancies are potentially curable; hence it is important to ...