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Personalization of regorafenib treatment in metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumours in real-life clinical practice
2017
Background: Regorafenib (REG) has now been approved as the standard third-line therapy in metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) patients at the recommended dose and schedule of 160 mg once daily for the first 3 weeks of each 4-week cycle. However, it has a relevant toxicity profile that mainly occurs within the first cycles of therapy, and dose and schedule adjustments are often required to reduce the frequency or severity of adverse events and to avoid early treatment discontinuation. To date, large amounts of data on the use of REG in metastatic GIST patients in daily clinical practice are not available, and we lack information about how this treatment personalization really a…
Doxorubicin plus dacarbazine (DTIC) in advanced solitary fibrous tumor (SFT): An Italian retrospective case series analysis.
2016
11042Background: The reported response rate to chemotherapy (CT) in SFT is low both with anthracycline-based regimens ( ≤ 20%) and with trabectedin ( < 10%). DTIC can be active. We report on the co...