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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Neoadjuvant therapy
Neoadjuvant therapy is the administration of therapeutic agents before a main treatment. One example is neoadjuvant hormone therapy prior to radical radiotherapy for adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Neoadjuvant therapy aims to reduce the size or extent of the cancer before using radical treatment intervention, thus making procedures easier and more likely to succeed, and reducing the consequences of a more extensive treatment technique that would be required if the tumor wasn't reduced in size or extent. This systemic therapy or radiation therapy is commonly used in cancers that are locally advanced - where clinicians plan an operation at a later stage...
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy - List of case studies
- Secondary Malignancy in mesentery following primary rectal cancer with multiple colonic polyps
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A Port-a-cath was inserted on11.05 and he began neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy . He received six weeks treatment for five ... A month following surgery the patient began chemotherapy with 5-FU 600 mg/sq m with leucovorin 500 mg/sq m once weekly ...
- 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. ... Sørbye H, Westre B, Horn A.Curative surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in metastatic poorly differentiated neuroendocrine ...
- Nephroblastoma (Wilms’ Tumor)
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stage. 2) He asks whether the expert agrees with the chemotherapy treatment prior to surgery, or if it would be best to have the ... would also like to know whether a histology test after chemotherapy would be affected by the medications and result in erroneous ...
- Cystic Pleuro-Pulmonary Blastoma – additional opinion
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of distant metastasis. The initial plan is to proceed with chemotherapy using 3 cycles of VAIA followed by restaging and aggressive ... surgically will be easier to address once the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been assessed. I would be very happy to review the ...
- Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix
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is extremely poor. Nevertheless it is reasonable to try neoadjuvant chemotherapy, followed by RT or hysterectomy. ...
- Drugs
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Adenexae Adjuvant Tamoxifen Adjuvant chemotherapy Adjuvant treatment with Interferon (part of the Mel A) ... Narapriptan Natalizumab Navelbine Neoadjuvant chemotherapy Neoadjuvant cisplatin Neupogen Neuramide (intramuscular vials) ...