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Chemotherapy-induced Vascular Toxicity - Real-time In vivo Imaging of Vessel Impairment
Published on: January 7, 2015
[Chemotherapy in urologic oncology]
1Service d'oncologie médicale, CHU Timone, France. jean-laurent.deville@sfr.fr
Abstract:
Chemotherapy is an effective treatment in urologic cancers either for localized tumor or metastatic disease. In urologic cancers, chemotherapy always takes part in a multidisciplinary strategy including surgery, oncology and radiotherapy. Except for metastatic testicular germ cell cancers, chemotherapy is a palliative treatment in other metastatic urologic cancers such as bladder and castration-resistant prostate carcinomas. In metastatic clear cell renal carcinomas, it has not any indication and anti-angiogenic drugs are the only therapeutic options. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in non-metastatic muscle-invasive bladder cancers must be considered as a standard treatment in fit patients.
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