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Three year survival among patients with aids-related Kaposi sarcoma treated with chemotherapy and combination antiretroviral therapy at Moi teaching and referral hospital, Kenya
BACKGROUND: AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma (AIDS-KS), a common malignancy in Kenya is associated with high morbidity and mortality. AIDS-KS is treated using bleomycin and vincristine (BV) plus or minus doxorubicin in most low resource settings, with response rates ranging from 24.8 to 87%. Survival in...
Autores principales: | Busakhala, Naftali, Kigen, Gabriel, Waako, Paul, Strother, R. Matthew, Chite, Fredrick, Loehrer, Patrick |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516547 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13027-019-0242-9 |
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