Fatal liver and bone marrow toxicity by combination treatment of dichloroacetate and artesunate in a glioblastoma multiforme patient. Case report and review of the literature

A 52 year-old male patient was treated with standard radiochemotherapy with temozolomide for glioblastoma multiforme. After worsening of his clinical condition, further tumor specific treatment was unlikely to be successful, and the patient seeked help from an alternative practitioner that administe...

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Main Authors: Martin Uhl, Stefan Schwab, Thomas Efferth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2016.00204/full