Browsing by Subject "Carmustine"
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Cancer and pregnancy: A comprehensive review
(2011)Background: Pregnancy complicated by cancer is relatively rare but, as women in western societies tend to delay childbearing to the third and fourth decade of life, this phenomenon is going to be encountered more often in ...
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ESMO minimum clinical recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of malignant glioma
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Forty years experience of treating cancer of unknown primary
(2007)Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is not a rare tumour. It accounts as the seventh to eighth most frequently diagnosed cancer in a general medical oncology service. Since CUP is not a homogeneous disease and it consists ...
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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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Malignant melanoma of unknown primary site. To make the long story short. A systematic review of the literature
(2011)Introduction: Although more than 90% of melanomas have a cutaneous origin, occasionally it is discovered as a secondary deposit without evident primary site. The aim of this study was to systematically review published ...
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Systemic chemotherapy in gastric cancer: Where do we stand today?
(1998)Gastric cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Its prognosis is poor, and surgery offers the only realistic chance of cure. Nevertheless, most of the patients present with inoperable tumors, ...
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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 I: Solid tumors
(2010)The association of cancer and pregnancy is increasingly encountered nowadays in clinical practice. Due to the relative rarity of the situation, it lacks a systematized approach. Different systemic therapies are used in ...