DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Cytotoxic chemotherapy
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy (sometimes cancer chemotherapy) is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen. Most commonly, chemotherapy acts by killing cells that divide rapidly, one of the main properties of most cancer cells. This means that it also harms cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances: cells in the bone marrow, digestive tract and hair follicles; this results in the most common side effects of chemotherapy: myelosuppression (decreased production of blood cells, hence also immunosuppression), mucositis (inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract), and alopecia (hair loss)...
Cytotoxic chemotherapy - List of case studies
- Recurrent metastases in malignant tumor of left forearm
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of neuro-ectodermal origin. He underwent surgery and chemotherapy but subsequently developed pulmonary metastases. The treating ... an autologous harvest. He could receive high dose cytotoxic chemotherapy, followed by stem cell rescue . In this way he ...
- Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix – additional opinion
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were explained, as were treatment options (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), including options to preserve fertility. ... to platinum-based combination chemotherapy . A review of cytotoxic chemotherapy for patients with high-grade neuroendocrine carcinomas, ...
- Treatments
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debulking Adequate rest Adjuvant Adjuvant chemotherapy Adjuvant hormonal therapy Adjuvant hormonotherapy ... Cytoreduction treatment Cytoreductive surgery Cytotoxic chemotherapy Cytotoxic immunosuppresive therapy D D ...
- Endometrial Cancer
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Following the adequate surgery she was started on a chemotherapy protocol, including Taxol, Epirubicin and Cisplatinum. However the ... relative lack of side effects of progestogens compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy initially led to their widespread use in unselected ...
- Drugs
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Adenexae Adjuvant Tamoxifen Adjuvant chemotherapy Adjuvant treatment with Interferon (part of the Mel A) ... Cyclosporine A Cymbalta Cytokines Cytotoxic agents Cytoxan Cytoxan VP-16 D Dacarbazine ...
- Neuroroendocrine neoplasia with hepatic secondary lesions_2
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to 05/2004 the patient underwent a total of 31 monthly chemotherapy administrations with Carboplatin and VP 16 ; - ... usally given together with radiotherapy or together with cytotoxic agents and cytokines ; for example a combination of ...