Background: Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) originates from placental trophoblast and is a highly chemosensitive and curable gynecologic malignancy. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of EMA/EP (etoposide, methotrexate, actinomycin-D, etoposide, and cisplatin) regimen in the treatment of high-risk GTN as well as patients’ outcome.  &nb...

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate prognostic factors for survival in patients with advanced NSCLC who receiving second-line chemotherapy. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed data of 116 patients with NSCLC receiving second-line treatments from October 2010 to December 2012 in Clinic for Lung Diseases of Clinical center Nis, Department for Pulmonary Oncology. Thirteen potential prog...

Aim: The approach of combining chemotherapy with antiangiogenic agents(AAs) has been explored in many trials. In most cases, the addition of AAs to chemotherapy have shown greater activity compared to chemotherapy alone. However, a clinically relevant increase in complete responses (CRs), which is a rare but important event in patients receiving chemotherapy, was not reported. We meta-analyzed ...

Extranodal non-Hodgkin's lymphomas constitute 20-25% of overall non-Hodgkin's lymphomas cases and can be managed with very different therapeutic strategies. Therefore, the Italian Society of Hematology and the two affiliate societies (the Italian Society of Experimental Hematology and the Italian Group of Bone Marrow Transplantation) appointed a panel of experts to produce clinical practice-gui...