partially funded by the“Medical Scientific Fund of the Mayor of the City of Vienna”,Grant Number 21040 to Dr.C.Lang.
Small cell lung cancer(SCLC)is frequently disseminated and has a dismal prognosis with survival times of approximately two years.This cancer responds well to initial chemotherapy but recurs within a short time as a gl...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(81972191 and 81672647);Science and Technology Major Project of Anhui Province(18030801140);the 100-Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The response rate of topotecan,as a second-line chemotherapeutic drug for small cell lung cancer,is~20%.DNA/RNA helicase SLFN11(schlafen family member 11),a member of the Schlafen(SLFN)family,is a crucial determinant ...
Aim:Small-cell lung cancer(SCLC)disseminates aggressively and may exhibit high chemoresistance and poor survival rates.In this study,we aimed to investigate a new mechanism of drug resistance for SCLC circulating tumo...
Background: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men over the age of 60 in Western countries. An estimated 241,740 new cases of prostate cancer have been diagnosed in the United States in 2012 with a death tol...
Extended-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) responds to platinum/vepeside-based first-line chemotherapy but relapses rapidly as drug-resistant tumor. Topotecan (TPT) is the single chemotherapeutic agent approved for ...
Objective: Cervical cancer represents the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and is an important cause of death for women suffering with malignancies. Patients who are refractory or progressed after first-line palli...
To the editor: Zhang et al1 have provided interesting data in their recent article. Topotecan may of clinical benefit in themanagement of other intra-cranial tumors especially glioblastomas.
Background Retinocytoma (RB) is a very common intraocular malignant tumor during infancy. Chemotherapy has gradually been used as the first-line treatment for intraocular RB in recent years. In this study, Livin and...
Objective The aim of this study was to define the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) and observe the toxicity of escalating topotecan combined whole brain radiotherapy for brain metastasis in lung cancer.