Multimodal treatment for extensive recurrent lentigo maligna melanoma
Lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) is a type of invasive melanoma. When LMM comprises periocular and ocular tissues, sequential multimodality treatments may be needed to avoid wide surgical excisions.
Zeynep Gursel Ozkurt +3 more
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Periocular necrotizing fasciitis following retrobulbar injection
Yeshigeta Gelaw, Aemero Abateneh Department of Ophthalmology, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia Abstract: Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, rapidly progressive severe bacterial soft tissue infection with a ...
Abateneh A, Gelaw Y
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Folliculotropic Mycosis Fungoides: Update on Diagnosis, Clinicopathological Stage, and Management
Folliculotropic mycosis fungoides (FMF) is a rare subtype of MF, characterized by prominent folliculotropism in histopathology. Clinically, FMF exhibits polymorphic presentations, mainly including follicular papules, plaques, alopecia, and other nonspecific lesions, with a predilection for the head and neck region, leading to frequent misdiagnosis ...
Xingyu Li, Jie Liu, Nicola Pimpinelli
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Node-positive breast cancer: Which are the best chemotherapy regimens? [PDF]
Breast cancer-associated mortality has been significantly reduced since the 1990s, mainly because of early diagnosis and systemic therapeutic interventions.
Bauerfeind, Ingo +6 more
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Interventions for the treatment of oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer: chemotherapy. [PDF]
Oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers are frequently described as part of a group of oral cancers or head and neck cancer. Treatment of oral cavity cancer is generally surgery followed by radiotherapy, whereas oropharyngeal cancers, which are more likely
Clarkson, Jan E.; id_orcid +52 more
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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of acupressure for the control and management of chemotherapy-related acute and delayed nausea: Assessment of Nausea in Chemotherapy Research (ANCHoR), a randomised controlled trial [PDF]
Background: Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting remain difficult symptoms to manage in clinical practice. As standard antiemetic drugs do not fully eliminate these symptoms, it is important to explore the adjuvant role of non-pharmacological and ...
Lloyd-Williams, M +35 more
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Severe aseptic orbital cellulitis with subtenon carboplatin for intraocular retinoblastoma
Retinoblastoma is a rare intraocular tumor of childhood. Chemoreduction followed by laser or cryotherapy is the treatment of choice. Subtenon carboplatin injection is also an accepted treatment modality for vitreous seeds, along with systemic ...
Shah Parag +3 more
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Clinical resistance to platinum chemotherapy in ovarian cancer [PDF]
Platinum drugs are the most active agents in ovarian cancer. Their cytotoxicty results from DNA crosslinking. High tumour response rates are seen, but 80 % of patients relapse. Major mechanisms of platinum resistance in patients remain to be established.
Newton, C., Newton, C
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MOGA-Based Multi-drug Optimisation for Cancer Chemotherapy [PDF]
This paper presents a novel method of multi-drug scheduling using multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) that can find suitable/optimum dosages by trading-off between cell killing and toxic side-effects of chemotherapy treatment.
Majumder, Azim +9 more
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BackgroundExtranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma (ENKTL) is a non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) with extranodal presentation.Case presentationThis report presents a rare case of ENKTL with ocular symptoms as the initial manifestation.
Huijuan Li +27 more
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