Pharmacotherapy for Retinoblastoma
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Systemic chemotherapy has become the cornerstone of therapy for retinoblastoma. The advent of novel chemotherapeutic and antiangiogenesis agents together with new routes of drug administration including periocular, intravitreal and intra-ophthalmic artery injection will hopefully revolutionize the management of this sight-threatening and potentially fatal infantile ocular neoplasm.
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Retinoblastoma Pharmacotherapy; Shahsavari and Mashayekhi
Retinoblastoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy of infancy and childhood with an incidence of 1 in every 20,000 live births.1 During the 20th century, retinoblastoma was uniformly fatal. Early diagnosis and recent advances in the management of retinoblastoma particularly the use of chemo-therapy have improved the prognosis of this fatal disease. Although this neoplasm has one o...
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