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Fatal pulmonary toxicity following oral etoposide therapy
E Dajczman1, H Srolovitz, H Kreisman
1Department of Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Lung Cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
|March 1, 1995
Abstract:
Oral etoposide has considerable activity in small cell lung cancer and the low risk of toxicity has resulted in the frequent prescription of this agent in elderly or infirmed patients. We describe a case of fatal pulmonary toxicity following the administration of oral etoposide. This is the first report of biopsy-proven pulmonary toxicity associated with this agent.