Lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis

The paper by Rachidi et al. suggests that antiplatelet drugs may play a role in ameliorating the clinical outcome in a large series of patients with head and neck cancer managed with either surgery or radiation. Our data, as well as confirming the results observed by the authors, enhance their clini...

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Autores principales: Furlan, Carlo, Steffan, Agostino, Polesel, Jerry, Trovo, Marco, Gobitti, Carlo, Vaccher, Emanuela, Serraino, Diego, Barzan, Luigi, Franchin, Giovanni
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26442752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40364-015-0051-2
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author Furlan, Carlo
Steffan, Agostino
Polesel, Jerry
Trovo, Marco
Gobitti, Carlo
Vaccher, Emanuela
Serraino, Diego
Barzan, Luigi
Franchin, Giovanni
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Steffan, Agostino
Polesel, Jerry
Trovo, Marco
Gobitti, Carlo
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description The paper by Rachidi et al. suggests that antiplatelet drugs may play a role in ameliorating the clinical outcome in a large series of patients with head and neck cancer managed with either surgery or radiation. Our data, as well as confirming the results observed by the authors, enhance their clinical relevance pointing out the effect of antiplatelet drugs in terms of locoregional control in the setting of patients with advanced head and neck cancer managed with definitive chemo-radiotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-45948942015-10-07 Lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis Furlan, Carlo Steffan, Agostino Polesel, Jerry Trovo, Marco Gobitti, Carlo Vaccher, Emanuela Serraino, Diego Barzan, Luigi Franchin, Giovanni Biomark Res Letter to the Editor The paper by Rachidi et al. suggests that antiplatelet drugs may play a role in ameliorating the clinical outcome in a large series of patients with head and neck cancer managed with either surgery or radiation. Our data, as well as confirming the results observed by the authors, enhance their clinical relevance pointing out the effect of antiplatelet drugs in terms of locoregional control in the setting of patients with advanced head and neck cancer managed with definitive chemo-radiotherapy. BioMed Central 2015-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4594894/ /pubmed/26442752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40364-015-0051-2 Text en © Furlan et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Furlan, Carlo
Steffan, Agostino
Polesel, Jerry
Trovo, Marco
Gobitti, Carlo
Vaccher, Emanuela
Serraino, Diego
Barzan, Luigi
Franchin, Giovanni
Lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis
title Lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis
title_full Lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis
title_fullStr Lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis
title_full_unstemmed Lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis
title_short Lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis
title_sort lower platelet counts and antiplatelet therapy independently predict better outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26442752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40364-015-0051-2
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