... Background: There has been no study so far on gemcitabine continuous maintenance therapy targeting only squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of cisplatin plus gemcitabine followed by maintenance gemcitabine for chemotherapy- naïve Japanese...

...Maurie Markman Based on the results of several phase 3 randomized trials, “maintenance therapy” (prolonged treatment after an initial response to cytotoxic chemotherapy) has assumed a critical role in the routine care of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer. While earlier data had provided support...

... subjects included fatigue, rash, and hypomagnesemia. Conclusion: Maintenance therapy with simplified biweekly cetuximab is a convenient, effective, and well-tolerated regimen in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. [email protected] 2 07 2018...

...Suayib Yalcin; Ruchan Uslu; Faysal Dane; Ugur Yilmaz; Nurullah Zengin; Evin Buyukunal; Suleyman Buyukberber; Celalettin Camci; Orhan Sencan; Sadettin Kilickap; Fatih Ozdener; Duygu Cevik Objective: It was the aim of this study to evaluate maintenance therapy with bevacizumab + capecitabine...

...) 75% and median survival ranged from 26 months for patients with bulky residual disease to more than 60 months for patients with small volume disease [ 4,5,6 ]. Unfortunately, 75% of the CR patients experience disease recurrence [ 4,5,6,7 ]. An effective consolidation or maintenance therapy that would...

... clinicians in advanced breast cancer patients with potentially hormone-sensitive tumors, although there are insufficient evidences in the literature to support this practice. We investigated the effects of the third-generation aromatase inhibitor letrozole as a maintenance therapy in postmenopausal patients...