Search Results - "Chemotherapy"

Purpose. Determine the nature of tumor regression and possible complications associated with the retinotoxic effect of melphalan and carboplatin with local chemotherapy.Methods. A histological analysis of 19 enucleated eyes from 19 patients with retinoblastoma was performed after combined organ-pres...

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Retinoblastoma is a success story in pediatric oncology, evolving from life-saving interventions to approaches that preserve eyes and vision while minimizing complications. Initially managed with enucleation and radiotherapy, treatment now emphasizes eye preservation through chemotherapy as the corn...

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Introduction. Breast cancer is now the most common malignant tumor among women with annually increasing incidence. One of the new, advanced and minimally invasive breast cancer treatment directions is intra-arterial neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The main purpose of the project is to analyze the results...

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The review presents data on drug therapy for ovarian cancer including neoadjuvant and intraperitoneal chemotherapy. The prospects of using targeted therapy for ovarian cancer are discussed.

Current therapies show limited efficacy against peritoneal metastases (PM) from pancreatic cancer. Pressurized intra-peritoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) has emerged as a novel intraperitoneal drug delivery method. Recently, a dose-escalation study identified the safe dose of Nabpaclitaxel for PI...

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The objective of the study is to compare the effectiveness of various systemic therapies in the 3rd and subsequent lines of therapy of metastatic colon cancer. Material and Methods. Retrospective multicenter study collected data from 2 clinics of the Russian Federation. We considered overall surviva...

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Conventional chemotherapy continues to form the backbone of treatment for many pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors. Advances have been made especially in the molecular underpinning of certain pediatric CNS tumors, allowing for advancement and consideration in incorporating this molecular i...

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Purpose of the study was to provide medical oncologists and surgeons specializing in the treatment of pancreatic cancer patients with the most recent information on the importance and role of chemotherapy in the treatment of patients with resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.Materi...

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Purpose. Improvement of the results of treatment of patients with locally advanced and metastatic gastric cancer. Material and methods. From the 2010–2014 we performed 30 surgeries using techniques HICT. Among patients there were 17 men and 13 women. The median of age was 50 years. Locally advanced...

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This review focuses on chemotherapy-induced polyneuropathy, which is a fairly common side effect and affects not only the quality of life of patients with malignancies, but can also lead to a change in patient management tactics, namely dose modification, delay of drug administration to complete ces...

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Neurotoxicity is one of the common side effects of anticancer chemotherapy. This pathology has a detectability of 38–90%. In some cases, it causes not only a significant decrease of life quality but also decrease of dose of cytostatics. Therefore, the tasks of early diagnosis, prevention and treatme...

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Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is a common manifestation of progression in peritoneal and gynecologic malignancies. Current primary strategy in treatment of PC is the concept of regional influence by the way of cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy, which has proven the efficiency i...

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Abstract Aim Adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) is the standard treatment for patients with advanced gastric cancer (GC), yet the optimal timing for its initiation remains unclear. Besides, no studies have definitively established when AC should begin in patients receiving preoperative chemotherapy (PC). Th...

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Colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) pose a significant challenge in oncological care, with surgical resection offering the best chance for long-term survival. Despite curative-intent liver metastasectomy, recurrence rates remain high, underscoring the need for effective adjuvant therapies. While adju...

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Different mechanisms of neuromuscular complications, their clinical presentation, methods of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment options arepresented. The material is presented according to the level of nervous system damage, with inclusion of different clinical entities. Authors revieweda wide range...

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