Browsing by Subject "Corticosteroid"
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Antiviral drugs in the prophylaxis of HBV infection
(2012)Reactivation of hepatitis B infection (HBV) is known to occur in liver graft recipients and in chronic carriers of the surface antigen of HBV who receive immunosuppressive therapy. The use of hepatitis B immune globulin ...
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Brain metastasis of unknown primary: A diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma
(2005)The diagnosis of a brain metastasis is usually made during the routine follow up examinations of patients with known cancer, who are under the care of oncology departments. The involvement of the neurosurgeon depends on ...
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Cancer specific risk in multiple sclerosis patients
(2016)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic central nervous system (CNS) autoimmune disease. Studies of cancer risk in MS patients have shown inconsistent findings. A pubmed search of the literature on cancer risk in patients ...
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Chemotherapy-induced noncardiogenic pulmonary edema related to gemcitabine plus docetaxel combination with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor support
(2000)Several cancer therapeutic agents have been associated with pulmonary toxicity. Herein, we describe the case of a 73-year-old woman with breast cancer metastatic to the liver, who developed noncardiogenic pulmonary edema ...
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Docetaxel (Taxotere™) is active in non-small-cell lung cancer: A phase II trial of the EORTC early clinical trials group (ECTG)
(1994)In a multicentre trial of the EORTC ECTG we have treated 43 non-pretreated patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with the new semisynthetic taxoid docetaxel (Taxotere). Six patients were ineligible; of ...
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Docetaxel (Taxotere™), a novel taxoid, in the treatment of advanced colorectal carcinoma: An EORTC Early Clinical Trials Group Study
(1994)Docetaxel (Taxotere), a new semisynthetic taxoid, is a potentially important chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of cancer. Forty patients with bidimensionally measurable advanced adenocarcinoma of the colon were ...
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ESMO minimum clinical recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of malignant glioma
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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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Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema: An unusual and serious complication of anticancer therapy
(2001)Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema (NCPE) is a rare and less well-recognizable pulmonotoxic syndrome of anticancer therapy than pneumonitis/fibrosis. NCPE is a clinical syndrome characterized by simultaneous presence of severe ...
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A successfully treated case of multicentric angiofollicular hyperplasia with oral chemotherapy (Castleman's disease)
(1990)A case of angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia of plasma cell type in a 60‐year‐old woman is reported. The patient presented with lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, and fever. She responded dramatically to chlorambucil and ...