ecancermedicalscience

Case Report

Metronomics for thymic carcinoma

18 Dec 2014
Jacobo Muñoz del Toro, Patricia Cortez Castedo, Alfonso Cortés Salgado, M Eugenia Olmedo García, Pilar Garrido López

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.

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