DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
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)...
chemotherapy - List of case studies
- 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 ... Cr 1.8-2.0. Following cessation of the chemotherapy it took several weeks for his condition to stabilize. The ...
- MDS – Myelodysplastic Syndrome
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currently not being treated for my disease. I was offered chemotherapy, but I declined this treatment because of fear that it would ... into acute leukemia . The use of this relatively mild chemotherapy is associated with improve outcomes as described in Fenaux P, et ...
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_2
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non-operable tumor of her lung with satellite nodules, and chemotherapy was initiated (first Cisplatin and Gemcitabine, and then switched ... Response evaluation following the fourth cycle of chemotherapy showed either stability or an initiation of tumor response, but ...
- Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas
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polyvalent vaccination, pneumococcal vaccine, adjuvant chemotherapy, radiation therapy, pancreatic resections. ... polyvalent vaccination, pneumococcal vaccine, adjuvant chemotherapy, radiation therapy, pancreatic resections. ...
- 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 ; - ... In August 2004, chemotherapy with PRAVA 40 mg (3 tablets every 2 months approximately) was ...
- Treatments
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debulking Adequate rest Adjuvant Adjuvant chemotherapy Adjuvant hormonal therapy Adjuvant hormonotherapy ... Beta-blocker BiPap Bicycle riding Bio-chemotherapy (IFNa with interleukin-2 Biologic response modifies ...
- NF-1 and optic nerve glioma – additional opinion
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SOUND EYE SIGHT F) Can chemotherapy replace the operation? NO G) After chemotherapy will surgery be necessary in any case? YES The ...
- Portosystemic Encephalopathy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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liver makes these options contraindicated. Chemotherapy has very limited efficacy for these patients. Sorafenib has ... radiofrequency, cryoablation, alcohol ablation, chemotherapy, hyposodic diet, liver transplantation ...
- Prostatic adenocarcinoma – additional information
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consulting with Dr. Cora sternberg from Rome regarding chemotherapy. Dr. Cora Sternberg, a worldwide known medical oncologist, ...
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), with kariotype del(11)q(11)
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weakness and being constantly tired.He was offered chemotherapy, but he declined this treatment because of fear that it would ... not being treated for his disease. He was offered chemotherapy , but he declined this treatment because of fear that it would ...