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Severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report
While the addition of cetuximab to radiotherapy improves clinical outcomes in locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell cancers, there are a small number of reports of severe radiation dermatitis occurring with this therapeutic combination. We present the case of a 69 year old male who dev...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628867/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19128507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-25 |
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| author | Azad, Arun |
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| description | While the addition of cetuximab to radiotherapy improves clinical outcomes in locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell cancers, there are a small number of reports of severe radiation dermatitis occurring with this therapeutic combination. We present the case of a 69 year old male who developed severe radiation dermatitis following treatment with cetuximab and radiotherapy for a locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell cancer. |
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| spelling | pubmed-26288672009-01-21 Severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report Azad, Arun Cases J Case Report While the addition of cetuximab to radiotherapy improves clinical outcomes in locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell cancers, there are a small number of reports of severe radiation dermatitis occurring with this therapeutic combination. We present the case of a 69 year old male who developed severe radiation dermatitis following treatment with cetuximab and radiotherapy for a locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell cancer. BioMed Central 2009-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2628867/ /pubmed/19128507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-25 Text en Copyright ©2009 Azad; 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 Azad, Arun Severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report |
| title | Severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report |
| title_full | Severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report |
| title_fullStr | Severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report |
| title_short | Severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report |
| title_sort | severe cutaneous toxicity following treatment with radiotherapy and cetuximab: a case report |
| topic | Case Report |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628867/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19128507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-25 |
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