Gemcitabine-related radiation recall preferentially involves internal tissue and organs

Gemcitabine-induced rectus abdominus radiation recall.

CONTEXT Radiation recall has been described in the context of gemcitabine chemotherapy. However, this phenomenon has been largely limited to skin. CASE REPORT We hereby report a case of radiation recall dermatitis and myositis occurring on gemcitabine monotherapy, five months after completing chemoradiation for locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Radiation recall resolved spontaneously with w...

Cytology of Internal Organs

Organs of Internal Secretion

Ten years of work of the East Harlem Health Center in New York are recorded and evaluated in an interesting and enlightening manner. This health center demonstration in coordinated health and welfare work in a defined city area, initiated by the New York chapter of the American Red Cross, was undertaken by the Department of Health and 21 cooperating voluntary agencies of the city. This health c...

The Organs of Internal Secretion

This is a somewhat sketchy but interesting book. It deals with the organs of internal secretion and their diseases and therapeutic application, and is intended for busy general practitioners, who have read of the subject in various periodicals and who will naturally desire to have the subject treated in book form. Hormone-therapy is already recognised as a therapeutic agent, bat the books which...

Xenobiotics in tissue and organs

Transport xenobiotis throug tissues and organs was studied. The aim of this paper dynamic xenobiotic transfer and accumulation in the specific tissues and organs were investigated. Some of xenobiotics are suficiently soluble in blood to account for simple solution as a route of distribution. Many xenobiotics are distributed in association which plasma proteins. Cellular components are responsib...