Maintenance cisplatin IV after cisplatin/gemcitabine for bladder cancer
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Mark LevinPosted
Thu 26 Nov 2009 10:02pm
The question is essentialy about the appropriateness of dropping cisplatin and continuing what the providers called "maintenance" gemctibaine for metastatic bladder cancer... Patients With Recurrent Bladder Cancer That Has Not Responded to Previous Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, NCT00234039. Here gemcitabine is intravesicular and cisplatin is not used
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cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury
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Matt S.Posted
Fri 05 Dec 2008 12:00am
At the Brigham and Women's Hospital & the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, there is an ongoing trial of using pneumonectomy and injected, heated cisplatin into the pleural... require dialysis. Unlike standard chemotherapy where cisplatin may be held once renal toxicity has occurred, the injected cisplatin has a very slow, continuous absorption
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Cisplatin induced hyponatremia; looking deeper
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Matt S.Posted
Fri 02 Jul 2010 12:00amCisplatin based therapy for the treatment of solid organ tumors is commonly associated with several renal abnormalities including;
*hypokalemia
* hypomagnesemia... known is that cisplatin can cause hyponatremia. SIADH is commonly blamed for the cause of hyponatremia in the setting of a patient with a malignancy receiving cisplatin based
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Taxotere and cisplatin for lung cancer
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Mark LevinPosted
Wed 30 Dec 2009 6:45am
and have been the standard of care in NSCLC. A European study showed that gemcitabine/cisplatin was essentiall equivalent to paclitaxel and a platin and the former became standard... to Taxol and other drugs in phase III trial. TAXOTERE in combination with cisplatin is indicated for the treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic non
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Vinorelbine/ cisplatin for esophageal cancer
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Mark LevinPosted
Wed 15 Jul 2009 8:07pm
The vinorelbine/ cisplatin combination for esophageal cancer is based on Phase II data, more specifically on one phase II study. The authors concluded that, "...vinorelbine and cisplatin in combination constitutes an active regimen for patients with metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus with response rates similar to the better treatment
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Cisplatin Might Be An Effective Chemotherapy for Some Breast Cancer Patients
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Aaron TaborPosted
Wed 03 Feb 2010 12:00amCisplatin is a chemotherapy drug approved by the FDA for use in the treatment of a variety of cancers including cancers of the bladder, ovary, testes, and cervix. However, cisplatin is not commonly used for breast cancer chemotherapy.
New breast cancer research explored the potential benefit of cisplatin as a chemotherapy agent for triple negative
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Cisplatin Might Be An Effective Chemotherapy for Some Breast Cancer Patients
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Aaron TaborPosted
Wed 03 Feb 2010 8:09amCisplatin is a chemotherapy drug approved by the FDA for use in the treatment of a variety of cancers including cancers of the bladderovarytestesand cervix. Howevercisplatin is not commonly used for breast cancer chemotherapy.
New breast cancer research explored the potential benefit of cisplatin as a chemotherapy agent for triple negative
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Cisplatin etoposide for head and neck cancer
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Mark LevinPosted
Tue 26 Oct 2010 1:56am
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W. Rauschning, M. Schröder, R. Bätge, H. G. Luhr, J. -H. Beyer and G. A. Nagel
Cisplatin (DDP) and etoposide (VP-16) as primary chemotherapy in patients with squamous...
Cisplatin and etoposide has been reported for the treatment of recurrent head and neck cancer but it is not a well-supported regimen or one that has been popular over teh
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Dacarbazine, cisplatin, carmustine for melanoma
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Mark LevinPosted
Fri 18 Jun 2010 1:16am
melanoma."
Another comparative study was of the combination of dacarbazine (DTIC), carmustine (BCNU), cisplatin (DDP) and tamoxifen (DBDT regimen) versus DTIC alone in patients... on overall survival. A study of the combination of dacarbazine (DTIC), carmustine (BCNU), cisplatin (DDP) and tamoxifen (DBDT regimen) against a chemoimmunotherapy regimen revelaed
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