Complete response and long-term survival in malignant pleural mesothelioma: Case report

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1485-1487

  Takanen, Silvia ^a   Resuli, Blerina ^a   Graziano, Vanessa ^a   Parisi, Alessandro ^a   Lisi, Roberto ^a   Raffetto, Nicola ^a   Tombolini, Vincenzo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Long term survival; Malignant pleural mesothelioma; Multidisciplinary treatment

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; PEMETREXED; TALC;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AERATION; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; BREATHING EXERCISE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPNEA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOACUSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TONSILLITIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GLUTAMATES; GUANINE; HUMANS; MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860006601     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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