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Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare cancer with poor patient survival. Female gender has been identified as a positive prognostic factor. Recently, it has been suggested that the expression of estrogen receptor β in malignant mesothelioma leads to tumor suppression and a better...

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Autores principales: Pillai, Krishna, Akhter, Javed, Pourgholami, Mohammad H, Morris, David L
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21269462
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-36
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author Pillai, Krishna
Akhter, Javed
Pourgholami, Mohammad H
Morris, David L
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Pourgholami, Mohammad H
Morris, David L
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description INTRODUCTION: Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare cancer with poor patient survival. Female gender has been identified as a positive prognostic factor. Recently, it has been suggested that the expression of estrogen receptor β in malignant mesothelioma leads to tumor suppression and a better prognosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 48-year-old Caucasian woman who is alive and disease-free seven years after the initial diagnosis and treatment of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. CONCLUSION: This patient's long survival may be attributable to a combination of factors, including minimal disease, complete cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy plus the estrogen receptor β positivity of the tumor.
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spelling pubmed-30424002011-02-22 Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report Pillai, Krishna Akhter, Javed Pourgholami, Mohammad H Morris, David L J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare cancer with poor patient survival. Female gender has been identified as a positive prognostic factor. Recently, it has been suggested that the expression of estrogen receptor β in malignant mesothelioma leads to tumor suppression and a better prognosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 48-year-old Caucasian woman who is alive and disease-free seven years after the initial diagnosis and treatment of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. CONCLUSION: This patient's long survival may be attributable to a combination of factors, including minimal disease, complete cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy plus the estrogen receptor β positivity of the tumor. BioMed Central 2011-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3042400/ /pubmed/21269462 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-36 Text en Copyright ©2011 Pillai 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.
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Pillai, Krishna
Akhter, Javed
Pourgholami, Mohammad H
Morris, David L
Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report
title Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report
title_full Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report
title_fullStr Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report
title_short Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report
title_sort peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21269462
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-36
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