Browsing by Subject "Dyspnea"

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Late toxicity in survivors from adolescent cancers

Pentheroudakis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas (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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Lung cancer in pregnancy: Report of nine cases from an international collaborative study

Boussios, Stergios; Han, S. N.; Fruscio, R.; Halaska, M. J.; Ottevanger, P. B.; Peccatori, Fedro A.; Koubková, L.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Amant, F. (2013)

Objective: Lung cancer is an uncommon diagnosis during pregnancy. The combination of smoking in young women, increased maternal age during pregnancy, and increasing incidence of lung cancer worldwide may cause an increase ...

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Oxaliplatin (eloxatin™) plus irinotecan combination chemotherapy found effective in refractory metastatic insular thyroid carcinoma

Briassoulis, E. Ch; Rontogianni, D.; Karavasilis, V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2005)

Therapeutic options for metastatic insular thyroid carcinoma (ITC) are very limited. We present the case of a 39-year-old woman with refractory metastatic ITC who responded to oxaliplatin plus irinotecan chemotherapy. She ...

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Phase II trial with S-1 in chemotherapy-naïve patients with gastric cancer. A trial performed by the EORTC Early Clinical Studies Group (ECSG)

Chollet, P.; Schöffski, P.; Weigang-Köhler, K.; Schellens, J. H. M.; Cure, H.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Grünwald, V.; Boer, R. De; Wanders, J.; Fumoleau, P. (2003)

S-1 is a new oral fluorinated pyrimidine derivate, in which the oral 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) prodrug, tegafur, was combined with two 5-FU-modulating substances, 5-chloro-2,4-dihydroxypyridine (gimeracil), and potassium oxonate ...

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Successful rechallenge with taxanes following prophylactic ketotifen in patients who had developed severe hypersensitivity reactions [1]

Briassoulis, E. Ch; Karavasilis, V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2000)

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Successful treatment of human immunodeficiency virus-related castleman's disease: A case report and literature review

Liberopoulos, E. N.; Ch, F. Tolis; Bai, M. C.; Efremidis, S.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Elisaf, Moses S. (2003)

Multicentric Castleman's disease is increasingly recognized as an aggressive illness with a rapidly fatal outcome in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. In the absence of optimal therapy, various therapeutic ...