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Tumor lysis syndrome, which develops after effective therapy of malignant conditions and leads to hyperuricemia, hyperkaliemia, hyperphosphatemia, hypocalcemia and elevated lactate dehydrogenase, is uncommon in solid tumors. In breast carcinoma it can be associated with tamoxifen flare, i.e. a
We report tamoxifen-induced hypertriglyceridemia and asymptomatic acute pancreatitis in a 51 year-old women with type 2 diabetes mellitus and stage III-b infiltrative ductal carcinoma, admitted to the hospital with weakness, oliguria and glucose dysregulation. On admission, there was no fever,
Interleukin-2 (IL-2), a product of activated T-cells, is now being used in a number of protocols for cancer immunotherapy. In one stem cell transplantation protocol for breast cancer, IL-2 is used together with interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and cyclosporine to stimulate a graft-versus-tumor response
Synergistic enhancement of anti-tumor effects through the combined use of natural human interferon-alpha (nHuIFN-alpha) and natural human tumor necrosis factor-alpha (nHuTNF-alpha) enabled us to decrease the effective dose of each cytokine and consequently to reduce side effects. One hundred and
BACKGROUND Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) represents a severe and dangerous side effect of chemotherapy. The frequency of TLS is not well known in patients with breast cancer, and there are no reports of TLS after the second or third lines of chemotherapy or immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy in