Multidisciplinary Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma by Lukas M. Nystrom, Nickolas B. Reimer, John D. Reith, Long Dang, Robert A. Zlotecki, Mark T. Scarborough, C. Parker Gibbs

“…Currently, the role of chemotherapy is not well defined and this treatment is typically reserved for patients with metastatic or recurrent disease and for certain histologic subtypes. …”
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RADIUM-223. PLACE IN THE TREATMENT OF METASTATIC CASTRATION-REFRACTORY PROSTATE CANCER by A. A. Kostin, A. G. Muradyan, A. O. Tolkachev, S. V. Popov

“…Currently, there are six effective methods of treatment of metastatic castration-refractory prostate cancer (mCRPC): effects on androgenic stimulation (abiraterone acetate, enzalutamide); chemotherapy with drugs from the taxane group (docetaxel, cabazitaxel); immunotherapy (Sipuleucel-T), radionuclide therapy with Radium-223 chloride (Ksofigo®). 223Ra is a tropic to bone tissue alpha emitter, which, due to its high linear energy transfer and short transmission distance, provides an enhanced localized antitumor effect due to higher energy delivery. …”
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Late Recurrence in Ovarian Dysgerminoma Presenting as a Primary Retroperitoneal Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Yuichiro Sato, Tohru Hayashi, Hidetaka Yamamoto, Ichiro Niina, Naoya Kuroki, Takeshi Iwamura, Junji Onishi

“…The patient was treated with bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin chemotherapy. This case demonstrates the difficulties that may be encountered in the differential diagnosis of a retroperitoneal mass and underlines the necessity for understanding a patient’s clinical history.…”
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ANTIBIOTIC LOCK THERAPY FOR PORT CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS OF CHILDREN WITH ACUTE LEUKEMIA by Burçin Kurtipek, Ayça Koca Yozgat, Saliha Kanık Yüksek, Dilek Kaçar, Turan Bayhan, Dilek Gürlek Gökçebay, Aslınur Özkaya Parlak, Neşe Yaralı

“… Background: Port catheters facilitate the administration of chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood products, fluid and parenteral nutritional support to pediatric patients with hematological malignancies. …”
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Development of Thermoresponsive Composite Hydrogel Loaded with Indocyanine Green and Camptothecin for Photochemotherapy of Skin Cancer After Surgery by Yu-Hsiang Lee, Chieh-Lin Chung

“…Although regimens such as chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy are often administered following surgical treatments, the patients may suffer from severe side effects, drug resistance, and/or high cost during treatments, indicating that the development of an effective and safe modality for skin cancer after surgery is still highly demanded nowadays. …”
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A Prospective Study Assessing Tumour Response, Survival, and Palliative Care Outcomes in Patients with HIV-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, M... by H. Francis, M. J. Bates, L. Kalilani

“…Tumour response, survival, and chemotherapy-related toxicities were documented. Palliative care outcomes were assessed using the African Palliative Care Association (APCA) Palliative Outcome Scale (POS). …”
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Microenvironment Elements Involved in the Development of Pancreatic Cancer Tumor by Katarzyna Gardian, Sława Janczewska, Marek Durlik

“…The surgical intervention remains main possibility of treatment because chemotherapy and radiotherapy has a minimal impact on long-term survival. …”
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Social role performance and self-identity among breast cancer patients in Lagos, Nigeria by Samuel Ojima Adejoh, Deborah Tolulope Esan, Adeola Adejayan

“…The population study comprised of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer, had undergone surgery, and were currently or recently receiving chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy at private hospitals in Ikeja, capital of Lagos State, Nigeria, from December 2015 to March 2016. …”
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Integrated bioinformatic approach of Balur therapy for breast cancer subtypes by Aristyani Sherry, Subagjo Saraswati, Rahayu Tintrim, Sumitro Sutiman B.

“…From these target genes, 7 Balur compounds had higher binding energy than chemotherapy compounds when they docked with hub genes from each subtype. …”
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Invasive Aspergillosis in a Patient with Stage III (or 3a or 3b) Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Durvalumab by Ashish Gupta, Aung Tun, Katy Ticona, Aam Baqui, Elizabeth Guevara

“…He had completed six cycles of chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin and four cycles of immunotherapy with durvalumab 13 days before his emergency hospital admission. …”
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Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of the Vagina by Rafael Oliveira, Mayra Coelho Bócoli, João Carlos Saldanha, Eddie Fernando Candido Murta, Rosekeila Simões Nomelini

“…The patient received 6 cycles of chemotherapy with cisplatin and etoposide and radiotherapy, achieving complete response, with complete regression of the lesion. …”
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The Immune Response to Tumors as a Tool toward Immunotherapy by F. Pandolfi, R. Cianci, D. Pagliari, F. Casciano, C. Bagalà, A. Astone, R. Landolfi, C. Barone

“…Until recently cancer medical therapy was limited to chemotherapy that could not differentiate cancer cells from normal cells. …”
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Resistance to Radiotherapy in Cancer by Almaz A. Akhunzianov, Elvira V. Rozhina, Yuliya V. Filina, Albert A. Rizvanov, Regina R. Miftakhova

“…Along with surgery and chemotherapy, it is one of the three main and most common approaches used in cancer therapy. …”
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Progress in immunotherapy for brain metastatic melanoma by Shicheng Zheng, Zhongqiao Lin, Ruibo Zhang, Zihang Cheng, Kaixin Li, Chenkai Gu, Yu Chen, Yu Chen, Jing Lin, Jing Lin

“…This review explores recent developments in immunotherapy for patients with melanoma brain metastasis, with such treatments encompassing immune checkpoint inhibitors and various immunotherapy combination approaches, such as dual immunotherapy, immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy, immunotherapy combined with targeted drugs, and immunotherapy combined with radiotherapy. …”
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Very Late Relapse of Testicular Tumour in Combination with Renal Cancer and Their Retroperitoneoscopic Removal by Mihály Murányi, Morshed Ali Salah, Béla Tállai, Mátyás Benyó, Tibor Flaskó

“…The 36-year-old patient underwent left orchiectomy, retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, and chemotherapy, because of mixed tumor including teratoma and embryonal carcinoma. 18 years after the successful primary therapy elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein level had been confirmed, then MRI and PET-CT scans demonstrated a 30 mm left renal mass and 22 mm retroperitoneal lymph node above the bifurcation of the left common iliac artery. …”
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Organoid development and applications in gynecological cancers: the new stage of tumor treatment by Yang Li, Meiying Qin, Ning Liu, Chunmei Zhang

“…Conventional treatments, such as surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, are often hindered by challenges such as drug resistance and recurrence, contributing to high mortality rates. …”
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Immune Modulation as Adjunctive Therapy for Pneumocystis pneumonia by Jing Wang, Terry W. Wright, Francis Gigliotti

“…Pneumocystis is an opportunistic fungal respiratory pathogen that causes life-threatening pneumonia (Pcp) in patients suffering from defects in cell-mediated immunity, including those with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and immunosuppression secondary to chemotherapy or organ transplantation. Despite major advances in health care, the mortality associated with Pcp has changed little over the past 25  years. …”
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Early Therapy Evaluation of Combined Cetuximab and Irinotecan in Orthotopic Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts by Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Hyunki Kim, Karri D. Folks, Lingling Guo, Jeffery C. Sellers, Naomi S. Fineberg, Cecil R. Stockard, William E. Grizzle, Donald J. Buchsbaum, Desiree E. Morgan, James F. George, Kurt R. Zinn

“…This study supports the clinical use of DCE-MRI for pancreatic cancer patients for early assessment of an anti–epidermal growth factor receptor therapy combined with chemotherapy.…”
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Sinonasal NUT carcinoma: A case report and literature review by Quentin Josset, Merzouka Zidane-Marinnes, Sylvie Giraud, Camille landry, Olivier Capitain

“…Our case is the first to test immunotherapy and anti-EGFR in metastatic sinonasal NUT carcinoma.This is a 47-year-old man diagnosed with ethmoidal NUT carcinoma cT4N0M0. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (CT) was started with 5 cycles of TCF (Docetaxel 40 mg/m2 CDDP 40mg/m2 and 5FU 2000mg/m2), resulting in a discrete partial metabolic response, followed by radiotherapy (RT) (total dose, 70 Gy; 2 Gy × 35 Fractions). …”
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An Acute Jejunojejunal Intussusception Revealing a Metastatic Combined Lung Cancer by Feryel Letaief-Ksontini, Ryma Boujnah, Yosra Yahiaoui, Yosra Zaimi, Meriem Ksentini, Raoudha Aloui, Khedija Meddeb, Amel Mezlini

“…He made a good recovery from the surgery, and a postoperative chemotherapy was administrated, and he is in remission until this date.…”
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