Rapid symptomatic relief of HER2-positive gastric cancer leptomeningeal carcinomatosis with lapatinib, trastuzumab and capecitabine: a case report

Abstract Background Gastric cancer patients with widespread metastasis, especially meningeal metastases, have an extremely prognosis and limited therapeutic choices. Case presentation We reported the case of a 39-year-old male patient with HER2-positive gastric cancer with bone and meningeal metasta...

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Main Authors: Xiao-Dong Jiao, Chunming Ding, Yuan-Sheng Zang, Guanzhen Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-018-4116-0