Proton beam therapy for a patient with a giant thymic carcinoid tumor and severe superior vena cava syndrome

Proton beam therapy for a patient with a giant thymic carcinoid tumor and severe superior vena cava syndrome

Surgical resection is the first choice for treatment of a thymic carcinoid tumor and radiotherapy is often performed as adjuvant therapy. Here, we report a case of an unresectable and chemoresistant thymic carcinoid tumor that was treated successfully using standalone proton beam therapy (PBT). The...

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Main Authors: Kaori Sugawara, Masashi Mizumoto, Haruko Numajiri, Toshiki Ohno, Kayoko Ohnishi, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Toshiyuki Okumura, Hideyuki Sakurai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-05-01
Series:Rare Tumors
Subjects:
thymic carcinoid tumor, proton beam therapy, radiation, superior vena cava syndrome, mediastinal tumor
Online Access:http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/rt/article/view/5177

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