Metronomic Chemotherapy in Small Animal Practice: An Update

Metronomic chemotherapy against cancer: from paradigm to clinical practice?

We describe two paradigmatic cases where metronomic antitumor chemotherapy was successfully employed in patients not suitable for standard treatments. The first patient was affected by advanced soft tissue sarcoma but she also had ischemic cardiopathy. She received oral cyclophosphamide 50 mg once daily and methotrexate 2.5 mg bid twice weekly, obtaining a significant clinical response with a p...

Antiangiogenic metronomic chemotherapy.

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/onk Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com Most of the phase I–II clinical studies performed up to now used ‘metronomic-like’ schedules of cytostatic agents, often administered using weekly schedules of vinca alkaloids, taxanes, anthracyclines or alkylating agents resulting, however, in high dose-density treatments. A rational ide...

Metronomic chemotherapy beyond misconceptions.

Metronomic Chemotherapy Roberta

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/onk Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com Most of the phase I–II clinical studies performed up to now used ‘metronomic-like’ schedules of cytostatic agents, often administered using weekly schedules of vinca alkaloids, taxanes, anthracyclines or alkylating agents resulting, however, in high dose-density treatments. A rational ide...

Transfusion medicine in small animal practice.

Red blood cell transfusions in veterinary medicine have become increasingly more common and are an integral part of lifesaving and advanced treatment of the critically ill. Common situations involving transfusions are life-threatening anemia from acute hemorrhage or surgical blood loss, hemolysis from drugs or toxins, immune-mediated diseases, severe nonregenerative conditions, and neonatal iso...