Long-term survival in a patient with pulmonary spindle cell carcinoma treated with traditional Chinese medicine

Spindle cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare pulmonary malignancy, accounting for only 0.2%–0.3% of all lung cancers. Therefore, the prognosis and treatment of pulmonary SCC is unclear. There are only 13 reported cases in literature, only three of which had a survival of more than 11 months. Here we repor...

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Autores principales: Li, Wenyuan, Chen, Maoyan, Zhao, Yuanhong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Rare Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6129063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30196260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-225989
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Zhao, Yuanhong
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description Spindle cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare pulmonary malignancy, accounting for only 0.2%–0.3% of all lung cancers. Therefore, the prognosis and treatment of pulmonary SCC is unclear. There are only 13 reported cases in literature, only three of which had a survival of more than 11 months. Here we reported a long-term survival of a patient with pulmonary SCC who underwent treatment with traditional Chinese medicine. At the most recent follow-up in July 2018, her survival after diagnosis is 48 months and she continues to do well. To our knowledge, this is the longest survival of late stage SCC with the largest tumour burden.
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spelling pubmed-61290632018-09-10 Long-term survival in a patient with pulmonary spindle cell carcinoma treated with traditional Chinese medicine Li, Wenyuan Chen, Maoyan Zhao, Yuanhong BMJ Case Rep Rare Disease Spindle cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare pulmonary malignancy, accounting for only 0.2%–0.3% of all lung cancers. Therefore, the prognosis and treatment of pulmonary SCC is unclear. There are only 13 reported cases in literature, only three of which had a survival of more than 11 months. Here we reported a long-term survival of a patient with pulmonary SCC who underwent treatment with traditional Chinese medicine. At the most recent follow-up in July 2018, her survival after diagnosis is 48 months and she continues to do well. To our knowledge, this is the longest survival of late stage SCC with the largest tumour burden. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6129063/ /pubmed/30196260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-225989 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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title_short Long-term survival in a patient with pulmonary spindle cell carcinoma treated with traditional Chinese medicine
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topic Rare Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6129063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30196260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-225989
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