Update on the Evidence Regarding Maintenance Therapy / 결핵및호흡기질환
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
;
: 1-7, 2014.
Article
Dans Anglais
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-15360
ABSTRACT
Maintenance therapy has emerged as a novel therapeutic paradigm for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Maintenance therapy that aims to sustain a clinically favorable state after first-line chemotherapy has two strategies. Switch maintenance therapy entails switching to a new and non-cross-resistant agent in an alternating or sequential manner, on completion of first-line chemotherapy. Continuous maintenance therapy keeps ongoing administration of a component of the current regimen after four to six cycles of chemotherapy, if there is a stable disease, or better response. Both maintenance therapies can be continued, until disease progression. The potential evidence regarding maintenance therapy includes providing the opportunity to receive additional treatment, through sustaining tumor shrinkage, and delayed emergence of tumor-related symptom. Thus far, debates over the parameters used to predict the effectiveness of maintenance therapy, financial burden, and uncertainty of improving the quality of life exist. Despite many debates, maintenance therapy, which is currently recommended, has been disclosed to be beneficial.
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Indice:
WPRIM (Pacifique occidental)
Sujet Principal:
Qualité de vie
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Carcinome pulmonaire non à petites cellules
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Évolution de la maladie
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Incertitude
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Traitement médicamenteux
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Chimiothérapie de maintenance
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Tumeurs du poumon
langue:
Anglais
Texte intégral:
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Année:
2014
Type:
Article
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