Durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapy

Metronomic chemotherapy has shown encouraging efficacy and low toxicity in various tumor types and is one of the best treatment options for heavily pretreated patients or patients with advanced age and/or poor performance status. We demonstrated a patient with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma who...

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Main Authors: Po-Hsiang Huang, Chun-Wei Wang, Jo-Pai Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-03-01
Series:Journal of Cancer Research and Practice
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2311300616301562
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Summary:Metronomic chemotherapy has shown encouraging efficacy and low toxicity in various tumor types and is one of the best treatment options for heavily pretreated patients or patients with advanced age and/or poor performance status. We demonstrated a patient with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma who experienced durable disease control under etoposide-based combination metronomic chemotherapy.
ISSN:2311-3006