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Clozapine and cancer treatment: Adding to the experience and evidence
The judiciousness of the use of clozapine in patients with schizophrenia in clinical practice is brought to an even sharper focus when it has to be used in combination with other agents that cause myelosuppression, for example, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. There are a few references till da...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891711 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.130507 |
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author | Deodhar, Jayita K. Prabhash, Kumar Agarwal, Jai P. Chaturvedi, Pankaj |
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description | The judiciousness of the use of clozapine in patients with schizophrenia in clinical practice is brought to an even sharper focus when it has to be used in combination with other agents that cause myelosuppression, for example, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. There are a few references till date illustrating the combination of clozapine and chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. To the best of our knowledge, such a case has not been reported from India. We report the case of a 39-year-old gentleman with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, remaining psychiatrically stable on clozapine, who underwent combination treatment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer of the tongue in a tertiary care oncology centre in India. |
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spelling | pubmed-40400712014-06-02 Clozapine and cancer treatment: Adding to the experience and evidence Deodhar, Jayita K. Prabhash, Kumar Agarwal, Jai P. Chaturvedi, Pankaj Indian J Psychiatry Case Report The judiciousness of the use of clozapine in patients with schizophrenia in clinical practice is brought to an even sharper focus when it has to be used in combination with other agents that cause myelosuppression, for example, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. There are a few references till date illustrating the combination of clozapine and chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. To the best of our knowledge, such a case has not been reported from India. We report the case of a 39-year-old gentleman with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, remaining psychiatrically stable on clozapine, who underwent combination treatment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer of the tongue in a tertiary care oncology centre in India. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4040071/ /pubmed/24891711 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.130507 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Deodhar, Jayita K. Prabhash, Kumar Agarwal, Jai P. Chaturvedi, Pankaj Clozapine and cancer treatment: Adding to the experience and evidence |
title | Clozapine and cancer treatment: Adding to the experience and evidence |
title_full | Clozapine and cancer treatment: Adding to the experience and evidence |
title_fullStr | Clozapine and cancer treatment: Adding to the experience and evidence |
title_full_unstemmed | Clozapine and cancer treatment: Adding to the experience and evidence |
title_short | Clozapine and cancer treatment: Adding to the experience and evidence |
title_sort | clozapine and cancer treatment: adding to the experience and evidence |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891711 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.130507 |
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