Literature DB >> 8626100

Treatment of resistant gestational choriocarcinoma with taxol: a report of two cases.

W B Jones1, J Schneider, F Shapiro, J L Lewis.   

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Two patients with resistant gestational choriocarcinoma were treated w with Taxol after extensive prior chemotherapy including EMACO and platinum-based salvage chemotherapy. Both patients showed significant responses to Taxol. One patient relapsed in the brain and liver after treatment and died. Taxol was combined with carboplatin in the other patient who achieved sustained clinical and hormonal remission after craniotomy and excision of resistant disease in the brain.

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Year:  1996        PMID: 8626100     DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1996.0110

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Gynecol Oncol        ISSN: 0090-8258            Impact factor:   5.482


  4 in total

Review 1.  Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: the management of relapsing patients and other recent advances.

Authors:  Naveed Sarwar; Edward S Newlands; Michael J Seckl
Journal:  Curr Oncol Rep       Date:  2004-11       Impact factor: 5.075

Review 2.  Gestational trophoblastic disease.

Authors:  J O Schorge; D P Goldstein; M R Bernstein; R S Berkowitz
Journal:  Curr Treat Options Oncol       Date:  2000-06

3.  Current chemotherapeutic management of patients with gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.

Authors:  Taymaa May; Donald P Goldstein; Ross S Berkowitz
Journal:  Chemother Res Pract       Date:  2011-05-11

4.  Peripartum Respiratory Failure with Bilateral Pulmonary Infiltrates on Chest X-Ray.

Authors:  Gladys W M Kwan; Chi-Kwan Koo
Journal:  Case Rep Oncol       Date:  2009-07-29
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