background: in the past 20 years, a dramatic improvement in the prognosis of patients with hepatoblastoma (hb)has been achieved by combining surgery and chemotherapy in several national and international trials.materials and methods: four children ( 3 girl and 1 boy) aged 34 days, 4 months, 13 months, and 1 year with meanage of 6.53 (±5.15) months were presented to our center from 2002 to 2009 ...

background: osteosarcoma is the most common bone sarcoma, and the third most common malignancy in children and adolescents. before 1970, amputation was the sole treatment. eighty percent of patients died from metastatic diseases, most commonly in the lungs. over the past three decades, effective neoadjuvant (preoperative) and adjuvant (postoperative) chemotherapy protocols have improved the abi...

cancer patient receive various cytotoxic drugs in association with antiemetic drugs such as 5ht3 receptor antagonists as their chemotherapy regimen. 5ht3 receptor antagonists have been reported to produce changes in ecg parameter. there are only a few studies about cardiovascular events of these drugs in patient receiving potentially cardiotoxic chemotherapies. the subject of this study is to e...

background & objective:the present study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence of early, advanced cancer cervix and its recurrence and role of chemotherapy in locally advanced cancer cervix. material and methods: the present study was conducted in the departments of obstetrics & gynaecology, pathology and radiotherapy and the specimens examined in the department of pathology of jaw...

to determine the addition of value of neoadjuvant, concurrent and adjuvant chemotherapy to radiation in the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma with regard to the overall survival (os) and disease free survival (dfs) within a six year period in tehran cancer institute. files of all patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated by radiotherapy with or without concurrent chemotherapy in a cura...

context to review and summarize the literature regarding the current status of postchemotherapy laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (pcl-rplnd) in patients with testicular germ cell tumor. evidence acquisition a comprehensive review of the english literature was performed using the pubmed database using the terms “laparoscopy” or “laparoscopic”, retroperitoneal lymph node dissect...

leiomyosarcoma is a rare entity in prostate but it is the most common type of prostate sarcomas in adult patients. in most reported series the prognosis is poor and the median survival is about 15-18 months. hereby we present a 72 years old man who received combined modality treatment including radical surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy. he has been well for 14 months, b...

OBJECTIVES To determine patient preferences and cost differences between home-based and hospital-based chemotherapy. DESIGN Randomised crossover trial. SETTING A tertiary cancer hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. PARTICIPANTS 20 patients who required chemotherapy suitable for administration at home. INTERVENTIONS Patients were assigned at random to receive their first chemotherapy treatme...