Metastatic Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast: Can We Tame It the Metronomic Way

Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a highly aggressive but rare malignant neoplasm. Palliative chemotherapy with different agents and combinations has been tried in the metastatic setting with poor results. We present the case of a young woman with this disease describing her aggressive course. W...

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Autores principales: Pramanik, Raja, Gogia, Ajay, Malik, Prabhat Singh, Gogi, Ramana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900339
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_156_16
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author Pramanik, Raja
Gogia, Ajay
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Gogi, Ramana
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description Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a highly aggressive but rare malignant neoplasm. Palliative chemotherapy with different agents and combinations has been tried in the metastatic setting with poor results. We present the case of a young woman with this disease describing her aggressive course. We used a metronomic combination of oral drugs due to her poor general condition and achieved disease stabilization although not durable.
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spelling pubmed-55825682017-09-12 Metastatic Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast: Can We Tame It the Metronomic Way Pramanik, Raja Gogia, Ajay Malik, Prabhat Singh Gogi, Ramana Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a highly aggressive but rare malignant neoplasm. Palliative chemotherapy with different agents and combinations has been tried in the metastatic setting with poor results. We present the case of a young woman with this disease describing her aggressive course. We used a metronomic combination of oral drugs due to her poor general condition and achieved disease stabilization although not durable. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5582568/ /pubmed/28900339 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_156_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Metastatic Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast: Can We Tame It the Metronomic Way
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title_full Metastatic Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast: Can We Tame It the Metronomic Way
title_fullStr Metastatic Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast: Can We Tame It the Metronomic Way
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast: Can We Tame It the Metronomic Way
title_short Metastatic Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast: Can We Tame It the Metronomic Way
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582568/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_156_16
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