Haslbauer, Ferdinand
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Case Reports in Oncology
Presented here is the case of an elderly leiomyosarcoma patient with multiple comorbidities and relapses from prior lines of treatment, who experienced a long-lasting progression-free survival. After initial diagnosis, standard treatment protocols with surgery and subsequent adjuvant radiochemotherapy were administered, followed by a short course o...
Kiesewetter, Barbara Dolak, Werner Mayerhoefer, Marius E. Simonitsch-Klupp, Ingrid Raderer, Markus
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Case Reports in Oncology
Primary follicular lymphoma of the duodenum (FL-D) constitutes a rare subtype of extranodal follicular lymphoma with a usually indolent course. To date, no distinct treatment recommendations have been defined for those patients. We report the case of a 58-year-old male patient presenting with endoscopically assessed, symptomatic FL-D who was treate...
Maminakis, Chris Whitman, Arin C. Islam, Nahida
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Case Reports in Oncology
We present a case of a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma started on bexarotene 300 mg/m2 due to progressing disease. The patient experienced good clinical response, but unfortunately, she developed rapid and profound hypertriglyceridemia. Although hypertriglyceridemia occurs in high incidence with bexarotene therapy, management recommendations...
Lyou, Yung Barber, Emily Mehta, Rita Lee, Thomas Goreal, Wamda Parajuli, Ritesh
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Case Reports in Oncology
In the last couple of decades, breast conservation therapy, which utilizes a combination of surgery, radiotherapy, and endocrine or chemotherapy, has become the standard of care for treating early-stage breast cancer. This practice has been greatly beneficial in the improvement of the patient’s quality of life but has also led to the increased use ...
Matsumoto, Hiroshi Sasaki, Akinori Nakamura, Yoshiaki Kawazoe, Akihito Kuboki, Yasutoshi Okinaka, Keiji Shitara, Kohei
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Case Reports in Oncology
Introduction: Tuberculous meningitis is rare but one of the most severe forms of tuberculosis infection. Case Report: A 78-year-old woman was diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer with multiple lymph node metastases. Four months after the beginning of second-line chemotherapy with weekly paclitaxel, she was admitted to our hospital because of feve...
Alam, Salma Illo, Chidi Ma, Yuk Ting Punia, Pankaj
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Case Reports in Oncology
Gemcitabine is not considered a cardiotoxic agent generally; so far only very few case reports have been reported in the literature on different aspects of cardiac side effects. Here we report a case series of 3 patients who developed congestive cardiac failure, when treated with gemcitabine monotherapy in the adjuvant setting for pancreatic cancer...
Sato, Yota Fujimura, Taku Kambayashi, Yumi Hashimoto, Akira Aiba, Setsuya
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Case Reports in Oncology
Bexarotene is a third-generation retinoid X receptor-selective retinoid that is widely used for the early treatment of advanced-stage cutaneous T-cell lymphomas. In this report, we describe a case of successful treatment of advanced primary cutaneous peripheral T-cell lymphoma not otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS) with oral bexarotene monotherapy. Aft...
Master, Samip Dwary, Ashish Mansour, Richard Mills, Glenn M. Koshy, Nebu
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Case Reports in Oncology
Eltrombopag is a thrombopoietin agonist and has been used in aplastic anemia and post-transplantation thrombocytopenia. The c-MPL receptor is present on hematopoietic stem cells. There are no reports of eltrombopag utilization for improving poor graft function in the post-transplant setting. Here were report a case of a young female with post-trans...
Amir, Rawan Abdul Razack Taheini, Khalid M. Sheikh, Salwa S.
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Case Reports in Oncology
Mullerianosis is a rare entity consisting of an admixture of 2 or more of the following tissues: endometriosis, endocervicosis, and endosalpingiosis. It most commonly affects the urinary bladder and affects females of fertile age. It presents clinically as hematuria, dysuria, and pelvic pain which may be associated with menstruation. Radiologically...
Hsu, Hui-Ching Liao, Tzu-Yao Chen, Dave Wei-Chih Juan, Yu-Hsiang Liaw, Chuang-Chi
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Case Reports in Oncology
We report 2 cases of patients with solid tumors and coagulopathy who experienced avascular necrosis (AVN) of the bone following chemotherapy. Both cases exhibited nontraumatic bilateral AVN of the femoral heads, and one also showed bilateral AVN of the humeral heads. One case had multiple thromboembolic complications, including pulmonary obstructiv...
