Adjuvant docetaxel or vinorelbine with or without trastuzumab for breast cancer
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A comparison is made between docetaxel and vinorelbine for the adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer. Adjuvant treatment with docetaxel, as compared with vinorelbine, improves recurrence-free survival in women with early breast cancer and a short course of trastuzumab administered concomitantly with docetaxel or vinorelbine is effective in women with breast cancer who have amplified HER2/neu gene.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2006
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Effect of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI571 in a patient with a metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor
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A drug that inhibits c-kit tyrosine kinase may be an effective treatment for gastrointestinal stromal tumors, according to researchers who used the drug Glivec to treat a woman with this usually fatal tumor. This drug also inhibits the BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase that causes chronic myelogenous leukemia and Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2001
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Case 32-2004: A 68-year-old man with a large retroperitoneal mass
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A case study of a 68-year-old man with large retroperitoneal tumor is presented. The diagnosis and classification of spindle-cell tumors of gastrointestinal tract is mentioned.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2004
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