DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Intensive chemotherapy
Neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid cancer in childhood and the most common cancer in infancy, with an annual incidence of about 650 new cases per year in the US. Close to 50 percent of neuroblastoma cases occur in children younger than two years old. It is a neuroendocrine tumor, arising from any neural crest element of the sympathetic nervous system or SNS. It most frequently originates in one of the adrenal glands, but can also develop in nerve tissues in the neck, chest, abdomen, or pelvis. Neuroblastoma is one of the few human malignancies known to demonstrate spontaneous regression from an undifferentiated state to a completely benign cellular appearance...
Intensive chemotherapy - List of case studies
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma
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After the diagnosis of Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, he began chemotherapy treatment according to NB-AR-O1/ESIOP protocol, that has been, on ... within normal limits. Non-examinable pancreas for the intensive meteorism and the young patient’s uncontrollable crying” ...
- Well differentiated mixed acinar and bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma of the lung
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you consider any further oncological therapies such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy to be of use? 3) ... . Immediate post-operative progress was normal in intensive care, where the patient was kept for approximately 24 hours as a ... you consider any further oncological therapies such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy to be of use? No, I would not suggest any ...
- Secondary Malignancy in mesentery following primary rectal cancer with multiple colonic polyps
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A month following surgery the patient began chemotherapy with 5-FU 600 mg/sq m with leucovorin 500 mg/sq m once weekly ... after dehiscence of the abdominal wound. He was in intensive care for seven days. Mr. Patient slowly recovered ...
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma – additional opinion
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After the diagnosis of Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, he began chemotherapy treatment according to NB-AR-O1/ESIOP protocol, that has been, on ... within normal limits. Non-examinable pancreas for the intensive meteorism and the young patient’s uncontrollable crying” ...
- Treatments
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debulking Adequate rest Adjuvant Adjuvant chemotherapy Adjuvant hormonal therapy Adjuvant hormonotherapy ... (Interferon beta-1a) Intensification treatment Intensive chemotherapy Intensive combined modality therapy Interferon ...
- Lung Cancer: Well differentiated mixed acinar and bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma (BAC) of the lung (T1 N0).
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you consider any further oncological therapies such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy to be of use? 3. What is the expected ... Immediate post-operative progress was normal in intensive care, where the patient was kept for approximately 24 hours as a ... you consider any further oncological therapies such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy to be of use? No, I would not suggest ...
- 3-year old boy with Medulloblastoma
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A gross total resection was achieved. He is undergoing a chemotherapy based protocol with autologous stem cell re-infusion. ... roughly similar in their composition, all focus on intensive chemotherapy with peripheral blood stem cell harvest, treatment ...
- Endometrial Cancer
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Following the adequate surgery she was started on a chemotherapy protocol, including Taxol, Epirubicin and Cisplatinum. However the ... (Taxol)] to cisplatin increases the response rate. More intensive regimens are associated with the gain in survival. However, grade 3 ...
- 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 ; - ... ) drug combinations and, whenever necessary, more intensive regimens at times of symptomatic progression, similarly to X's ...
- IgG Multiple Myeloma
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last regimen. In addition more conventional combination chemotherapy can be used (e.g. VAD). What are the next steps when ... Reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens use less intensive chemotherapy or irradiation prior to the infusion of donor stem ...