Advances in Illuminating Prostate Cancer with Emerging Phototherapies by Ali Usman

“…Despite advancements in diagnostics and treatment options, conventional therapies for prostate cancer, including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy, face limitations such as treatment resistance, limited precision and off-target side-effects. …”
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Dasatinib and FLAG-IDA Is an Effective Therapy for Initial Myeloid Blast Crisis but Involves a High Risk of Opportunistic Infections by Jorge Labrador, Gerardo J. Hermida, Rodolfo Alvarez, Victor Anso, Pilar de Vicente, Mercedes Goñi, Tomas Jose Gonzalez-Lopez

“…Recent studies focus on the combination of chemotherapy with imatinib, but results remain unsatisfactory. …”
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Consensus guidelines for the management of treatment-naïve chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in Singapore (2024) by Yeow Tee Goh, Yvonne Loh, Esther Chan, Yuh Shan Lee, Venkata Sreekanth Sampath, Daryl Tan, Shin Yeu Ong, Chandramouli Nagarajan

“…Due to the superior efficacy of targeted agents (Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors [BTKis] and B-cell lymphoma 2 inhibitors [BCL2is]), sthese are favoured over standard chemotherapy or chemotherapy-immunotherapy, especially for patients with del(17p) or TP53 mutation, and less fit patients. …”
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Case of Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of Pancreas by M. Hamzaçelebioğlu, O. Üreyen, A. Argon, E. İlhan, A. Mert Ateşci

“…However, the patient subsequently developed metastasis to the liver and lungs, prompting the initiation of systemic chemotherapy. The patient died seven months after the development of metastasis and 39 months following the primary diagnosis. …”
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A Rare Case of Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy Associated with Hodgkin Lymphoma by Keiki Nagaharu, Yuka Sugimoto, Keiki Kawakami

“…We diagnosed the patient with immunotactoid nephropathy and HL. After systemic chemotherapy, the patient achieved a complete response and loss of proteinuria. …”
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A Rare Case of Primary Bilateral Adrenal Lymphoma by Veeraraghavan Meyyur Aravamudan, Phang Kee Fong, Yang Shiyao Sam, Pavel Singh, Siok-Bian Ng, Gollamudi Satya Pavan Kumar

“…She was started on R-CHOP chemotherapy and had a good clinical response and remained in complete remission for five months after chemotherapy.…”
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Hepatitis B Reactivation in a HBsAg-Negative, HBcAb-Positive Patient Receiving Fludarabine for the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia by Federica Toscanini, Pasqualina De Leo, Giuseppe Calcagno, Federica Malfatti, Alessandro Grasso, Marco Anselmo

“…Hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation is an increasingly recognized cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing chemotherapy. In haematology, the risk of reactivation of B hepatitis among HBsAg-positive patients has been documented; therefore, use of lamivudine prophylaxis is recommended before starting chemotherapy. …”
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Systemic Sclerosis and Multiple Cancers of the Female Genital Tract: Prolonged Survival following Current Treatment Strategies by Georgios Androutsopoulos, Georgios Adonakis, Athanasios Tsamandas, Andreas Andonopoulos, Georgios Decavalas

“…She underwent postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy and remains well without evidence of disease 89 months after initial surgery. …”
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Research progress of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the adjuvant treatment of acute myeloid leukemia complicated with constipation (中药辅助治疗急性髓细胞白血病合并便秘的研究进展)... by WANG Xue (王雪), CAO Hongjing (曹红京)

“…Constipation is a common complication of chemotherapy in cancer patients. Complicated constipation imposes a serious risk of infection on patients undergoing chemotherapy for acute myelocytic leukemia (AMI), increases the difficulty in following treatment and nursing. …”
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Emerging Role of PET in the Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer by Geoffery Coates, Stephen J Skehan

“…Early studies suggest a promising role for PET in the evaluation of response to chemotherapy. This may allow treatment to be changed after only one course of chemotherapy, instead of waiting for anatomical disease progression to become obvious clinically or with CT. …”
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Modern Trends in Imaging IX: Biophotonics Techniques for Structural and Functional Imaging, In Vivo by Yasaman Ardeshirpour, Amir H. Gandjbakhche, Laleh Najafizadeh

“…In vivo optical imaging is being conducted in a variety of medical applications, including optical breast cancer imaging, functional brain imaging, endoscopy, exercise medicine, and monitoring the photodynamic therapy and progress of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. In the past three decades, in vivo diffuse optical breast cancer imaging has shown promising results in cancer detection, and monitoring the progress of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. …”
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Synchronous local recurrence and liver metastasis from extragastrointestinal stromal tumor in the rectovaginal septum: a unique case presentation by Eleni Papamattheou, Ioannis Katsaros, Eirini Chorianopoulou, Kyriaki Theodorolea, Gabriela Stanc, Christos Iavazzo, Elissaios Kontis

“…The patient was referred for adjuvant chemotherapy. E-GISTs are rare neoplasms with low malignant potential. …”
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Apolipoprotein C-II Deposition Amyloidosis: A Potential Misdiagnosis as Light Chain Amyloidosis by Sadichhya Lohani, Emily Schuiteman, Lohit Garg, Dhiraj Yadav, Sami Zarouk

“…Our case highlights the importance of determining the subtype of amyloidosis that is critical for avoiding unnecessary therapy such as chemotherapy.…”
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Unique Case Report of a Meningeal Sarcoma Arising during Ongoing Treatment for Progressing Intraparenchymal Glioma by Richard A. Peterson, Bhavani Kashyap, Pamala A. Pawloski, Anna C. Forsberg, Leah R. Hanson

“…It is unusual to have two separate intracranial primary cancers with each requiring a different chemotherapy regimen. We discuss the difficulty of simultaneously treating with separate chemotherapy regimens. …”
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Safety and Efficacy of Combined Yttrium 90 Resin Radioembolization with Aflibercept and FOLFIRI in a Patient with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer by Andre De Souza, Kevin Pelham Daly, James Yoo, Muhammad Wasif Saif

“…An ongoing randomized clinical trial aims to define the role of combined targeted therapy and chemotherapy with radioembolization with Y90.…”
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Safe and Successful Yttrium-90 Resin Microsphere Radioembolization in a Heavily Pretreated Patient with Chemorefractory Colorectal Liver Metastases after Biliary Stent Placement ab... by Vlasios S. Sotirchos, Elena N. Petre, Karen T. Brown, Lynn A. Brody, Michael I. D’Angelica, Ronald P. DeMatteo, Nancy E. Kemeny, Constantinos T. Sofocleous

“…We report a case of safe and successful yttrium-90 resin microsphere radioembolization in a patient with a long history of multiple recurrent colon cancer hepatic metastases progressing after hepatic resections, hepatic arterial chemotherapy, and multiple regimens of systemic chemotherapy. …”
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Effective Treatment of a Malignant Breast Phyllodes Tumor with Doxorubicin-Ifosfamide Therapy by Shinya Yamamoto, Shigeru Yamagishi, Toshiro Kohno, Ryosuke Tajiri, Toshikazu Gondo, Noboru Yoshimoto, Nobuko Kusano

“…Malignant phyllodes tumors of the breast occur infrequently and are difficult to treat with chemotherapy. Here, we present an effective chemotherapy strategy for recurrent malignant breast phyllodes tumors. …”
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Breast Cancer Treatment Practices in Elderly Women in a Community Hospital by Hua Wang, Awinder P. Singh, Serena A. St. Luce, Alan R. Go

“…Adjuvant therapy such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapy were done in 12%, 25%, and 38%, respectively. …”
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ChatGPT, Google, or PINK? Who Provides the Most Reliable Information on Side Effects of Systemic Therapy for Early Breast Cancer? by Stefan Lukac, Sebastian Griewing, Elena Leinert, Davut Dayan, Benedikt Heitmeir, Markus Wallwiener, Wolfgang Janni, Visnja Fink, Florian Ebner

“…Nevertheless, the information about the need for systemic therapy, especially chemotherapy, represents an additional stress factor for patients. …”
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A high number of tumor deposits (≥ 4) is an isolated predictor of local recurrence and distant metastasis in non-metastatic colorectal cancer: a single center study by Ahmed Bendari, Ebubekir Ucar, Alaa Bendari, Hamed Hammoud, FNU Kiran, Reham Al-Refai, Sunder Sham, Sanjay Kirshan Kumar, Ryan Des Jean, Manju Harshan

“…Abstract Introduction Local recurrence and distant metastasis after curative surgery and chemotherapy for colorectal cancer (CRC) is a serious complication and is considered a failure of the therapeutic strategy. …”
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