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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spelling doaj-d0211440c8af44a79196d7bec6d00a312020-11-25T02:52:07ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Cancer Research and Practice2311-30062017-03-0141313410.1016/j.jcrpr.2016.09.003Durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapyPo-Hsiang Huang0Chun-Wei Wang1Jo-Pai Chen2Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, TaiwanDivision of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, TaiwanDepartment of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, TaiwanMetronomic 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2311300616301562Nasopharyngeal carcinomaMetronomic chemotherapy
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author Po-Hsiang Huang
Chun-Wei Wang
Jo-Pai Chen
spellingShingle Po-Hsiang Huang
Chun-Wei Wang
Jo-Pai Chen
Durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapy
Journal of Cancer Research and Practice
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Metronomic chemotherapy
author_facet Po-Hsiang Huang
Chun-Wei Wang
Jo-Pai Chen
author_sort Po-Hsiang Huang
title Durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapy
title_short Durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapy
title_full Durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapy
title_fullStr Durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapy
title_full_unstemmed Durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapy
title_sort durable control of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metronomic chemotherapy
publisher Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
series Journal of Cancer Research and Practice
issn 2311-3006
publishDate 2017-03-01
description 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.
topic Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Metronomic chemotherapy
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2311300616301562
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