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ArticleMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2010

Salvage chemotherapy with amrubicin and platinum for relapsed thymic carcinoma: experience in six cases.

Tomonobu Koizumi, Toshihiko Agatsuma, Takashi Ichiyama, Toshiki Yokoyama, Atsuhito Ushiki, Yoshimichi Komatsu, Tsuyoshi Tanabe, Takashi Kobayashi, Sumiko Yoshikawa, Masanori Yasuo and 3 more

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Article in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Tomonobu KoizumiFirst Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Internal Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi Matsumoto, 390-8621 Matsumoto, Japan. tomonobu@shinshu-u.ac.jp
Toshihiko Agatsuma
Takashi Ichiyama
Toshiki Yokoyama
Atsuhito Ushiki
Yoshimichi Komatsu
Tsuyoshi Tanabe
Takashi Kobayashi
Sumiko Yoshikawa
Masanori Yasuo
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Keishi Kubo
Tsutomu Hachiya

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Abstract

It has been reported that cisplatin-based chemotherapy shows beneficial effects in certain patients with advanced thymic carcinoma. However, the usefulness of salvage therapy has not been reported. We focused on a new anthracycline agent, amrubicin, combined with platinum compounds as salvage chemotherapy in patients with thymic carcinoma. Six cases of unresectable and locally advanced thymic carcinoma relapsed from prior cisplatin-containing chemotherapy were treated with amrubicin (30-40 mg/m(2) day 1-3) plus platinum compounds (cisplatin 60 mg/m(2) day 1 or nedaplatin 70 mg/m(2) day 1) chemotherapy as salvage chemotherapy. Two patients showed a partial response. However, Grade 3/4 neutropenia and thrombocytopenia occurred in all and two of the patients, respectively. We conclude that thymic carcinoma is sensitive to platinum-based chemotherapy and that amrubicin appears to have significant activity against thymic carcinoma. The major toxicity is hematological toxicities.

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Salvage TherapyAdultAgedAnthracyclinesAntibiotics, AntineoplasticAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPlatinum CompoundsSecondary PreventionThymomaamrubicinAnthracyclinesAntibiotics, AntineoplasticPlatinum Compounds

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