Improving Outcomes in Advanced Lung Cancer : Maintenance Therapy in Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma = تحسين النتائج في سرطان الرئة المتقدم : العلاج المستدام في سرطان الرئة ذي الخلية غير الصغيرة
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[Maintenance therapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer].
Maintenance therapy is a new treatment strategy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer(NSCLC), and it consists of switch maintenance and continuation maintenance.Switch maintenance is the introduction of a different drug, not included as part of the induction therapy, immediately after completion of 4 cycles of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.Continuation maintenance is a continuation o...
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Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has the second highest incidence of any newly diagnosed cancer and also has the highest mortality of any cancer type [1]. The majority of patients present with late-stage disease, by which time systemic therapy (chemotherapy) has become the primary treatment and platinum doublet chemotherapy is the first-line choice among patients with advanced disease (stage ...
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Standard management of advanced non-small cell lung cancer includes palliative chemotherapy, but its efficacy is modest. In most cases a few cycles of palliative chemotherapy are administered, as there is no evidence of benefit associated with prolonged treatment. Recently, there is an interest in a new approach including treatment continuation using cytotoxic compounds of proved efficacy in se...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2075-0528
DOI: 10.12816/0003190