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Case Reports
. 2014 Dec 18:8:494.
doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2014.494. eCollection 2014.

Metronomics for thymic carcinoma

Jacobo Muñoz Del Toro  1 , Patricia Cortez Castedo  1 , Alfonso Cortés Salgado  1 , M Eugenia Olmedo García  1 , Pilar Garrido López  1
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Metronomics for thymic carcinoma

Jacobo Muñoz Del Toro et al. Ecancermedicalscience. .

Abstract

Although thymomas are the most frequent primary tumours of the anterior mediastinum, thymic carcinoma is very infrequent and more aggressive. Combination chemotherapy is the first-line treatment for the advanced stages, but because of the lack of evidence from randomised trials, the management of the successive lines is a challenging field. We report a partial radiological response in the seventh line of a thymic carcinoma stage IV with an oral regimen.

Keywords: metronomics; recurrent thymic carcinoma; treatment.

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Figure 1.. The response after metronomic treatment.
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