Basal cell carcinoma: response to systemic chemotherapy for lung carcinoma. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Two patients had regression of basal cell carcinoma while receiving systemic chemotherapy for carcinoma of the lung. The chemotherapeutic agents with some efficacy in basal cell carcinoma are reviewed. Based on our patients and data from the literature, cisplatin appears to be a drug of potential usefulness in some patients with this neoplasm.

publication date

  • February 1, 1988

Research

keywords

  • Adenocarcinoma
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
  • Carcinoma, Basal Cell
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Skin Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023901385

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/s0190-9622(88)70044-4

PubMed ID

  • 3346415

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 18

issue

  • 2 Pt 1