The synergetic use of Somatostatin, Melatonin, Retinoids, Vitamins C, D3, and E, Calcium, sulphated Aminoglucosides, and minimum doses of cyclophosphamide in a 70-year old male patient with inoperable scarcely differentiated oesophageal carcinoma, has provided, from the beginning of treatment in 1995 to the present date, an excellent quality of life, as well as a cure with functional recovery. ...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND We demonstrated that colorectal liver metastases considered in complete response after intra-arterial floxuridine-based chemotherapy had recurred in situ. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN One hundred and six colorectal liver metastases disappeared after intra-arterial chemotherapy. Persistent macroscopic disease was observed at surgery at the site of 52 of 106 liver metastases, ev...

The standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer is neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by radical proctectomy with total mesorectal excision. A significant percentage of patients exhibit a pathological complete response with associated survival benefit. The management of patients who exhibit a complete clinical response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation, and could potentially avoid maj...

twenty-one patients with advanced breast cancer (7 premenopausal and 14 postmenopausal women) were treated with a combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and cisplatin (cap). the median age of the patients was 43 years (range 36-61). this therapy was repeated every 3 weeks. nine patients (group 1) received cap as primary therapy for metastatic breast cancer, and twelve patients (group 2) ...

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a rare condition traditionally requiring treatment with whole lung lavage. The case is presented of a young man who obtained complete remission following treatment with granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor, a new treatment option.

BACKGROUND The management of patients with disseminated disease is a difficult problem. There is currently no consensus on the standard first-line treatment for metastatic melanoma. We present a case because of his exceptional evolution. RESULTS A 43 year old male diagnosed in 1999 with malignant melanoma stage IIA. In May 2000 hepatic and splenic metastases were detected. He received 6 cycle...

In this case presentation, a woman with breast carcinoma who chose to try Prof. L. DiBella's biological therapy (MDB), was found, after seven months, to have a 50% reduction in objective measures of her carcinoma and was totally cured after 14 months. The patient's recovery extended to bilateral axillary adenopathies, and took place without the toxicity normally associated with cancer treatment...

In multiple myeloma (MM), the impact of complete response (CR) could be shown only after introduction of high-dose therapy plus autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). In the context of ASCT, achieving CR (negative immunofixation and normal bone marrow) or at least very good partial response is associated with longer progression-free survival and in most studies longer survival. With novel...

We evaluated long-term outcome of patients achieving complete response (CR) after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) for multiple myeloma. Between April 1990 and June 2012 191 patients underwent ASCT. The median age was 53 years (range, 26-68 years), 135 were men. Pretransplant, patients received induction therapy with VAD (vincristine, doxorubicin, dexamethasone; n = 77), novel agents...