Browsing by Subject "Palliative therapy"
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Docetaxel and carboplatin combination chemotherapy as outpatient palliative therapy in carcinoma of unknown primary: A multicentre Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group phase II study
(2008)Introduction. Taxane/platinum combinations exhibit synergistic cytotoxicity and activity against a broad range of solid tumours. We sought to optimise the regimen as a suitable outpatient palliative treatment for cancer ...
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History of mastectomy
(2006)Incidents of breast cancer have been documented back to the early Egyptians. Hippocrates was the first who used the term of cancer "karkinos" or "karkinoma" of the nose, the uterus, the breasts and the neck. He believed ...
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Non-small cell lung cancer in the young: A retrospective analysis of diagnosis, management and outcome data
(2006)Background: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in young patients is uncommon and is thought to constitute a distinct oncological entity with characteristic clinicopathological patterns. Since the reported data are scant ...