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Imaging Features of Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Published on: June 16, 2020
[Interstitial pneumonitis]
Fumihiko Hirai1, Gouji Toyokawa, Taro Ohba
1Dept. of Thoracic Oncology, National Kyushu Cancer Center, Japan.
Abstract:
The risk management of interstitial pneumonitis in cancer chemotherapy not only involves an adverse event by an anticancer drug, but there are four steps with the incidence of interstitial pneumonitis: 1 ) the time before chemotherapy treatment, selection of chemotherapy regimens and patients, 2 ) the time chemotherapy treatment is performed, 3 ) the time during following-up, 4 ) the time when interstitial pneumonitis occurs. It is necessary to decrease the risk of interstitial pneumonitis by several steps, cooperating with an entire medical staff.
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