Uncommon Adverse Effects of Commonly Used Chemotherapeutic Agents in Medical Oncology Practice: A Series of Two Cases of Hand-Foot Syndrome

Chemotherapy has an increasing potential for cure and palliation of most forms of cancer in different stages. However, its use is associated with a multitude of side effects some very common and few very rare. We present two patients of metastatic nonsmall lung cancer who had severe forms of hand-fo...

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Autores principales: Dar, Waseem, Hussain, Mir, Aziz, Sheikh Aijaz, Mohammad, Gul, Wani, Burhan, Latief, Muzamil
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/PMC5686990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29200697
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_70_16
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author Dar, Waseem
Hussain, Mir
Aziz, Sheikh Aijaz
Mohammad, Gul
Wani, Burhan
Latief, Muzamil
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description Chemotherapy has an increasing potential for cure and palliation of most forms of cancer in different stages. However, its use is associated with a multitude of side effects some very common and few very rare. We present two patients of metastatic nonsmall lung cancer who had severe forms of hand-foot syndrome with two different classes of antineoplastic drugs and have to discontinue chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-56869902017-12-01 Uncommon Adverse Effects of Commonly Used Chemotherapeutic Agents in Medical Oncology Practice: A Series of Two Cases of Hand-Foot Syndrome Dar, Waseem Hussain, Mir Aziz, Sheikh Aijaz Mohammad, Gul Wani, Burhan Latief, Muzamil Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Chemotherapy has an increasing potential for cure and palliation of most forms of cancer in different stages. However, its use is associated with a multitude of side effects some very common and few very rare. We present two patients of metastatic nonsmall lung cancer who had severe forms of hand-foot syndrome with two different classes of antineoplastic drugs and have to discontinue chemotherapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5686990/ /pubmed/29200697 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_70_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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Dar, Waseem
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Mohammad, Gul
Wani, Burhan
Latief, Muzamil
Uncommon Adverse Effects of Commonly Used Chemotherapeutic Agents in Medical Oncology Practice: A Series of Two Cases of Hand-Foot Syndrome
title Uncommon Adverse Effects of Commonly Used Chemotherapeutic Agents in Medical Oncology Practice: A Series of Two Cases of Hand-Foot Syndrome
title_full Uncommon Adverse Effects of Commonly Used Chemotherapeutic Agents in Medical Oncology Practice: A Series of Two Cases of Hand-Foot Syndrome
title_fullStr Uncommon Adverse Effects of Commonly Used Chemotherapeutic Agents in Medical Oncology Practice: A Series of Two Cases of Hand-Foot Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Uncommon Adverse Effects of Commonly Used Chemotherapeutic Agents in Medical Oncology Practice: A Series of Two Cases of Hand-Foot Syndrome
title_short Uncommon Adverse Effects of Commonly Used Chemotherapeutic Agents in Medical Oncology Practice: A Series of Two Cases of Hand-Foot Syndrome
title_sort uncommon adverse effects of commonly used chemotherapeutic agents in medical oncology practice: a series of two cases of hand-foot syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5686990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29200697
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_70_16
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