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… is a drug that has shown activity in squamous cell lung cancers, but it can be quite challenging in terms of side … sodium and high potassium levels, and darkening of the skin." - …
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… refers to epidermis, and was initially described in the skin. It’s also expressed in the colon and a variety of other … see epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in the skin, for instance, but the mutations are in the tumor, and …
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… medical oncologist, specializes in lung cancer, cancers of the head and neck, and skin. Dr. Liu is a strong advocate of genomic testing to …
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… medical oncologist, specializes in lung cancer, cancers of the head and neck, and skin. Dr. Liu is a strong advocate of genomic testing to …
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… get tissue from patients’ lungs. One is by numbing up the skin on the chest and doing a needle biopsy through the chest … has a liver lesion on a CT scan, we may choose to numb the skin in the abdomen and do a needle biopsy that way, and that …
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… them are less toxic than others, but the effects are only skin rash and diarrhea. In general, the more powerful drugs … them, especially in elderly patients that cannot tolerate skin rashes or diarrhea. As you can see, we use toxicity to …
Post - Anonymous -
… tumor shrinkage, while some patients who experience major skin symptoms demonstrate very early progression. A rash is … often to reduce the dose in patients who have significant skin toxicity. Corroborating the nearly universal finding …
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… medical oncologist, specializes in lung cancer, cancers of the head and neck, and skin. Dr. Liu is a strong advocate of genomic testing to …
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… improved survival compared to patients who experience no skin toxicity on tarceva. The key question is whether this is … either grade 2 rash (scattered bumps or spots or general skin redness with itching or other symptoms) or significant …
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… end in the pleural space and one end that goes through the skin and outside of the body, leave it in to drain for a few … in the chest, the patient needs to use a pump under the skin to draw up the fluid in the chest and transfer it into …
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