Non-surgical treatment of primary female urethral cancer

Primary carcinomas of the female urethra are extremely rare, with an annual incidence of less than ten in one million. Currently, there is no consensus regarding management of this malignancy. However, there have been several case reports demonstrating the efficacy of chemoradiation in the treatment...

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Autores principales: Libby, Bruce, Chao, David, Schneider, Bernard F
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PagePress 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139970
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2010.e55
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description Primary carcinomas of the female urethra are extremely rare, with an annual incidence of less than ten in one million. Currently, there is no consensus regarding management of this malignancy. However, there have been several case reports demonstrating the efficacy of chemoradiation in the treatment of female urethral cancer. In this report we present two cases of female primary urethral adenocarcinoma that were treated by concomitant chemotherapy and external beam radiotherapy, followed by interstitial brachytherapy.
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spelling pubmed-29945282010-12-07 Non-surgical treatment of primary female urethral cancer Libby, Bruce Chao, David Schneider, Bernard F Rare Tumors Article Primary carcinomas of the female urethra are extremely rare, with an annual incidence of less than ten in one million. Currently, there is no consensus regarding management of this malignancy. However, there have been several case reports demonstrating the efficacy of chemoradiation in the treatment of female urethral cancer. In this report we present two cases of female primary urethral adenocarcinoma that were treated by concomitant chemotherapy and external beam radiotherapy, followed by interstitial brachytherapy. PagePress 2010-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2994528/ /pubmed/21139970 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2010.e55 Text en ©Copyright B. Libby et al., 2010 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (by-nc 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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