Carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: Palliation with intrathecal treatment

Carcinomatous meningitis or meningeal carcinomatosis is seen in up to 5% of patients of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. However, isolated carcinomatous meningitis without brain parenchymal metastasis is less common. Patients with carcinomatous meningitis have limited treatment options. Howeve...

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Autores principales: Kumar, D. Santhosh, Noronha, Vanita, Joshi, Amit, Jain, Hasmukh, Prabhash, Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4080668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25006289
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.133726
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author Kumar, D. Santhosh
Noronha, Vanita
Joshi, Amit
Jain, Hasmukh
Prabhash, Kumar
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description Carcinomatous meningitis or meningeal carcinomatosis is seen in up to 5% of patients of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. However, isolated carcinomatous meningitis without brain parenchymal metastasis is less common. Patients with carcinomatous meningitis have limited treatment options. However, intrathecal therapy if used optimally along with targeted therapy when indicated result in good palliation with improvement in survival.
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spelling pubmed-40806682014-07-08 Carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: Palliation with intrathecal treatment Kumar, D. Santhosh Noronha, Vanita Joshi, Amit Jain, Hasmukh Prabhash, Kumar Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Carcinomatous meningitis or meningeal carcinomatosis is seen in up to 5% of patients of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. However, isolated carcinomatous meningitis without brain parenchymal metastasis is less common. Patients with carcinomatous meningitis have limited treatment options. However, intrathecal therapy if used optimally along with targeted therapy when indicated result in good palliation with improvement in survival. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4080668/ /pubmed/25006289 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.133726 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology 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.
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Kumar, D. Santhosh
Noronha, Vanita
Joshi, Amit
Jain, Hasmukh
Prabhash, Kumar
Carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: Palliation with intrathecal treatment
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title_full Carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: Palliation with intrathecal treatment
title_fullStr Carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: Palliation with intrathecal treatment
title_full_unstemmed Carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: Palliation with intrathecal treatment
title_short Carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: Palliation with intrathecal treatment
title_sort carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: palliation with intrathecal treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4080668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25006289
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.133726
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