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Nail toxicity related to taxanes
Y Abou Mourad1, M Matta-Muallem, A Shamseddine
1Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Dermatology, American University of Beirut-Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Dermatology Online Journal
|September 4, 2003
Abstract:
A 70-year-old woman with non-small-cell lung cancer developed severe nail toxicity while she was being treated with docetaxel at three-week intervals. Docetaxel is a chemotherapeutic agent of the taxane family. Taxanes are well known to cause nail changes, but mainly when used on a weekly basis.