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Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report

BACKGROUND: To date, there is no standard treatment for unresectable malignant peritoneal mesothelioma; either best supportive care or systemic chemotherapy with palliative intent are accepted options. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we report the case of a 79-year old patient with malignant peritoneal mes...

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Autores principales: Fasola, Gianpiero, Puglisi, Fabio, Follador, Alessandro, Aita, Marianna, Di Terlizzi, Silvia, Belvedere, Ornella
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17176466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-6-289
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author Fasola, Gianpiero
Puglisi, Fabio
Follador, Alessandro
Aita, Marianna
Di Terlizzi, Silvia
Belvedere, Ornella
author_facet Fasola, Gianpiero
Puglisi, Fabio
Follador, Alessandro
Aita, Marianna
Di Terlizzi, Silvia
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description BACKGROUND: To date, there is no standard treatment for unresectable malignant peritoneal mesothelioma; either best supportive care or systemic chemotherapy with palliative intent are accepted options. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we report the case of a 79-year old patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma who was treated with pemetrexed single-agent and obtained an impressive long-lasting response. CONCLUSION: Single-agent pemetrexed is a treatment option for malignant peritoneal mesothelioma in selected elderly patients or in patients with unpaired performance status.
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spelling pubmed-17649042007-01-10 Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report Fasola, Gianpiero Puglisi, Fabio Follador, Alessandro Aita, Marianna Di Terlizzi, Silvia Belvedere, Ornella BMC Cancer Case Report BACKGROUND: To date, there is no standard treatment for unresectable malignant peritoneal mesothelioma; either best supportive care or systemic chemotherapy with palliative intent are accepted options. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we report the case of a 79-year old patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma who was treated with pemetrexed single-agent and obtained an impressive long-lasting response. CONCLUSION: Single-agent pemetrexed is a treatment option for malignant peritoneal mesothelioma in selected elderly patients or in patients with unpaired performance status. BioMed Central 2006-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC1764904/ /pubmed/17176466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-6-289 Text en Copyright © 2006 Fasola et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Fasola, Gianpiero
Puglisi, Fabio
Follador, Alessandro
Aita, Marianna
Di Terlizzi, Silvia
Belvedere, Ornella
Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report
title Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report
title_full Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report
title_fullStr Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report
title_short Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report
title_sort dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17176466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-6-289
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