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salvage chemotherapy

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salvage chemotherapy
Oncology A treatment modality consisting of high-dose chemotherapy and BMT, for cancer Pts who have 'failed' one or more protocols. See Heroic therapy.


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Patients treated with bladder preservation strategies, however, are offered radiosensitizing chemotherapy, then are treated with salvage chemotherapy upon recurrence; these patients rarely receive adjuvant chemotherapy when the tumour burden is low and the chance of cure is highest.
and in a variety of treatment strategies, including combinations with front-line and salvage chemotherapy regimens and as part of autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
Salvage chemotherapy with 3 cycles of etoposide, methylprednisolone, cytarabine, and cisplatin (ESHAP) produced a partial response.
 
 
 
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