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Induction chemotherapy in head and neck cancer
Anti-Cancer Drugs, 2011Five hundred and fifty thousand new head and neck cancer cases are diagnosed each year worldwide. They are mostly locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma with a poor prognosis in terms of locoregional and distant failure. A major challenge for patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma is to achieve a high cure rate while preserving ...
Pointreau, Yoann +4 more
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Induction chemotherapy using intraarterial infusion
1991Until recently gastrectomy was the only treatment offering any real prospect of cure for patients with gastric cancer. However, excepting patients with minimal disease, the results of gastrectomy alone have been unsatisfactory, whether the gastrectomy has been total or subtotal.
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Induction Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
2016Induction chemotherapy, also known as primary, preoperative or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, for breast cancer is indicated in locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) and patients with stage II–III disease in order to downstage the tumour burden and ensure appropriate breast conservation.
François-Michel Delgado +2 more
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Induction Chemotherapy for Cervical Cancer
2011The standard of care in advanced cervical cancer in all stages from and above IB2 with tumors larger than 4 cm in diameter to stage IVA with invasion of the bladder or/and rectum is radiochemotherapy. In this setting intracavitary brachytherapy is the most active component for local tumor eradication and favourable long-term results.
Karl Reinhard Aigner, Josef Jansa
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Induction of diffuse necrotizing enterocolitis by anticancer chemotherapy
Gastroenterologia Japonica, 1987Fulminant, necrotizing colitis is a frequent, and generally fatal, complication of severe granulocytopenia, occurring during the treatment of hematological malignancies. In these cases, the patient complains of severe peritonitis, including nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea or melena, and a high temperature.
M, Maeta, K, Mizusawa, S, Koga
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Induction chemotherapy in the management of head and neck cancer
Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2010AbstractThe strategy of induction chemotherapy prior to planned definitive local therapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma has been studied for over 30 years, and appears to have a role in select clinical situations. Here we review landmark studies regarding induction chemotherapy, both in the pre‐taxane era and in the current taxane era, and ...
Matthew G, Fury, Jatin P, Shah
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Neoadjuvant induction chemotherapy.
Minerva ginecologica, 2006Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and neoadjuvant hormonal therapy (NAHT) have been adopted worldwide as appropriate, if not standard of care, options of treatment for patients with locally advanced carcinoma of the breast. The initial role of NACT was the conversion of so called inoperable tumors into those for which mastectomy could now be performed ...
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Induction Chemotherapy in Treatment of Sarcomas
2011The most appropriate place of induction chemotherapy in management of large and aggressive sarcomas remains controversial (Benjamen et al. Annals of Oncology. 1992;3, Supplement 2:53–56; Eilber et al. Proc Am Soc Clin Oncol. 1990;9:309; Pisters et al. J Clin Oncol. 2007;25:1003–1008).
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PET-guided induction chemotherapy
The Lancet Oncology, 2007Robert J, Downey, David H, Ilson
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INDUCTION OF TUMOR IMMUNITY BY INTRATUMORAL CHEMOTHERAPY
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1976T, Borsos +5 more
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