etoposide/obesity

This case report presents the pharmacokinetics of doxorubicin and etoposide in a 14-year-old morbidly obese (body mass index: 46.3 kg/m2) male patient with Hodgkin disease. Dosing based on an adjusted body surface area resulted in a dose reduction by approximately 25% as compared to dosing based on

Data are limited on whether to adjust high-dose chemotherapy before autologous hematopoietic cell transplant (autoHCT) in obese patients. This study explores the effects of dose adjustment on the outcomes of obese patients, defined as body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m2. Dose adjustment was defined as

Rearrangements initiating within the well-characterized break-point cluster region of the mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) gene on 11q23 are a hallmark of therapy-related leukemias following treatment with topoisomerase II poisons including etoposide. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are believed to be

Pharmacokinetic parameters established in 15 patients receiving parenterally administered etoposide (80-120 mg . m-2) are reported. The etoposide assay by means of mass spectrometry after sample separation by thin-layer chromatography or high-pressure liquid chromatography used in this study has

BACKGROUND Obese individuals have altered pharmacokinetics for many medications when compared with the non-obese. For the oncologist treating an obese cancer patient, these changes in drug disposition may potentially cause increased therapy-related toxicity. As a consequence, oncologists frequently

Adie's syndrome (AS) and paraneoplastic sensorimotor neuropathy with cerebellar ataxia (PSN CA) are extremely rare, rapidly progressive, autoimmune diseases associated with the development of antibodies against neuronal-specific Hu proteins that are abnormally expressed in small-cell lung cancer

There is conflicting information about the influence of body mass index (BMI) on the pharmacokinetics, toxicity, and outcome of chemotherapy. We compared pharmacokinetics, outcome, and toxicity data across 4 BMI groups (underweight, BMI < or = 10th percentile; normal; at risk of overweight, BMI > or

Obesity continues to be an increasing global health issue contributing to the complexity of chemotherapy dosing in the field of SCT. Investigation into the optimal dosing weight used to calculate chemotherapy doses in obese patients undergoing SCT is limited and inconclusive. Our single-center,

A 24-year-old African American female (L.R.) with a history of smoking and gestational diabetes was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. She received multiple chemotherapies, including six cycles of ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine), followed by radiation therapy to left

Tumors are presumed to contain a small population of cancer stem cells (CSCs) that initiate tumor growth and promote tumor spreading. Multidrug resistance in CSCs is thought to allow the tumor to evade conventional therapy. This study focused on expression of CD133 and CD87 because CD133 is a

BACKGROUND Cholangiocarcinoma cells express high levels of the antiapoptotic proteins Bcl-X(L) and Mcl-1 and are markedly chemo- and radioresistant. Mitochondria have emerged as central players in apoptosis. Antiapoptotic members of the Bcl-2 protein family localise to the outer mitochondrial

Bcl-XL, a member of the Bcl-2-related anti-apoptosis protein family, antagonizes a diverse range of apoptosis-inducing stimuli by preventing mitochondrial permeability transition, release of apoptogenic factors including cytochrome C, and caspase activation. We have tested the hypothesis that the

Dosages of anticancer drugs are usually calculated on the basis of a uniform standard, the body surface area (BSA). Although many physiological functions are proportionate to BSA, overall drug clearance is only partially related to this parameter. Consequently, following administration of equivalent

The two patients were males aged over 30 years. To treat testicular tumors, combination chemotherapy with bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin (BEP) had been employed. In case 1, during the 4th course of BEP therapy, thoracic pain suddenly appeared. Emergency coronary angiography revealed thrombus

OBJECTIVE The current study evaluates the extent and reversibility of late sequelae after chemotherapy in longterm survivors of testicular cancer. The influence of therapy and patient characteristics and the relationship between different toxicities are assessed. METHODS Ninety patients with a