Patients with Advanced Ovarian Cancer Administered Oral Etoposide following Taxane as Maintenance Chemotherapy
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Patients with Advanced Ovarian Cancer Administered Oral Etoposide following Taxane as Maintenance Chemotherapy.
INTRODUCTION The concept of maintenance therapy is one of the highly relevant approaches in the management of advanced ovarian cancer. The fundamental goal of maintenance therapy is to improve survival outcomes. We attempted to reinforce maintenance chemotherapy by adding oral etoposide following taxane administration. CASES We retrospectively evaluated 14 patients with advanced ovarian cance...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Oncology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1662-6575
DOI: 10.1159/000445287