Long-Term Survival in Adult Neuroblastoma with Multiple Recurrences

Neuroblastoma (NB) rarely occurs in adults, and less than 10% of the cases occur in patients older than 10 years. Currently, there are no standard treatment guidelines for adult NB patients. We report the case of a young man suffering from NB in adulthood with multiple recurrences. Treatment include...

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Autores principales: Vénat-Bouvet, L., Le Brun-Ly, V., Martin, J., Gasnier, O., Falkowsky, S., Tubiana-Mathieu, N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2010
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Published: February 2010
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20740158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000286142
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author Vénat-Bouvet, L.
Le Brun-Ly, V.
Martin, J.
Gasnier, O.
Falkowsky, S.
Tubiana-Mathieu, N.
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Le Brun-Ly, V.
Martin, J.
Gasnier, O.
Falkowsky, S.
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description Neuroblastoma (NB) rarely occurs in adults, and less than 10% of the cases occur in patients older than 10 years. Currently, there are no standard treatment guidelines for adult NB patients. We report the case of a young man suffering from NB in adulthood with multiple recurrences. Treatment included multiple resections, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. This patient remains free of clinical disease more than 7 years after diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-29188422010-08-25 Long-Term Survival in Adult Neuroblastoma with Multiple Recurrences Vénat-Bouvet, L. Le Brun-Ly, V. Martin, J. Gasnier, O. Falkowsky, S. Tubiana-Mathieu, N. Case Rep Oncol Published: February 2010 Neuroblastoma (NB) rarely occurs in adults, and less than 10% of the cases occur in patients older than 10 years. Currently, there are no standard treatment guidelines for adult NB patients. We report the case of a young man suffering from NB in adulthood with multiple recurrences. Treatment included multiple resections, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. This patient remains free of clinical disease more than 7 years after diagnosis. S. Karger AG 2010-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2918842/ /pubmed/20740158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000286142 Text en Copyright © 2010 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: February 2010
Vénat-Bouvet, L.
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Gasnier, O.
Falkowsky, S.
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title Long-Term Survival in Adult Neuroblastoma with Multiple Recurrences
title_full Long-Term Survival in Adult Neuroblastoma with Multiple Recurrences
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title_full_unstemmed Long-Term Survival in Adult Neuroblastoma with Multiple Recurrences
title_short Long-Term Survival in Adult Neuroblastoma with Multiple Recurrences
title_sort long-term survival in adult neuroblastoma with multiple recurrences
topic Published: February 2010
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918842/
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