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Etoposide
Etoposide phosphate is an anti-cancer agent. It inhibits the enzyme topoisomerase II, which aids in DNA unwinding, and by doing so causes DNA strands to break. Cancer cells rely on this enzyme more than healthy cells, since they divide more rapidly. It is used as a form of chemotherapy for cancers such as Ewing's sarcoma, lung cancer, testicular cancer, lymphoma, non-lymphocytic leukemia, and glioblastoma multiforme. It is often given in combination with other drugs. It is also sometimes used in a conditioning regimen prior to a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant...
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and etoposide - List of case studies

Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix – additional opinion

staining showed the cells positive for NSE, SYN, CHR, and 90% positive for Ki67 (proliferative index). The findings of the PET-FDG ... of chemotherapy with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and etoposide , administered at 3-week intervals followed by three courses (24 ...

spreading pancreatic cancer

pancreas. She underwent removal of the pancreatic lesion and lymph node dissection, another surgery to remove the distal pancreas and ... LAR, a chemotherapy combination of platinum and etoposide would be recommended. Enrollment in a clinical trial, if ...

Pulmonary heteroplasia_2

non-operable tumor of her lung with satellite nodules, and chemotherapy was initiated (first Cisplatin and Gemcitabine, and then ... to be considered (possibly in combination) would be etoposide, navelbine, pemetrexed or docetaxel .    ( ...

Stage 4 Neuroblastoma – additional opinion

rectus muscle. Later he was hospitalized due to fever and vomiting in left orbital lesion, suspecting a metastatic neuroblastoma. His ... chemotherapy (cycle A) with Carboplatin, Vincristine and Etoposide has been administered. The therapy has been, on the whole, well ...

Drugs

AREDS formulation AREDS formulation of vitamins and minerals ASA ASPIRIN ATACAND PLUS ATG AVASTIN ... Analgesics Anastrozole And Act-D) And etoposide Androcur Androcur Depot Angiotensin Receptor Blocker ...

3-year old boy with Medulloblastoma

Is the Cancer Institute of Milan , and in particular Dr. Massimino who is treating this child, the best ... HD-MTX (methotrexate) 8 g/m 2 HD-VP16 (etoposide) 2.4 g/m 2 HD-EDX (cyclophosphamide) 4 g/m 2 ...

Pulmonary heteroplasia

the right hemithorax with concomitant pulmonary nodules and a measurable enlargement of lymph nodes. FBS was positive for well differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma and a needle biopsy revealed adenocarcinoma with associated neuroendocrine ... gemcitabin again or together with etoposide . As an off label option a brief experimental exposure to the ...

Neuroroendocrine neoplasia with hepatic secondary lesions_2

liver metastases. The disease was treated with an etoposide-carboplatin combination, Interferon A, somatostatin analogue and Zebra fish egg derived dietary supplements. In early 2008, a tumour ... started to produce the epithelial tumour markers CEA and CA 19-9. The patient was later treated with lomustine, etoposide and ...

Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix

atypical cells in Pap smear. Her cervix was biopsied, and found poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma. The findings of the ... ago we had a protocol for neoadjuvant cisplatin, adria, etoposide followed by RT or hysterectomy depending on the stage. With ...

Treatments

APPENDIX SURGERY AREDS formulation (of vitamins and minerals) ASA AV nodal ablation Abdominal radical ... therapy Etoposid Ebewe (VP 26) statins Etoposide Eutirox (levothyrxine) supplementation Evening primrose oil ...

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