With the advent of mathematical modelling for the chemotherapy of malaria, it seems desirable to extend the models for monotherapy to drug combination.
Physical exercise and quality of life in cancer patients following high dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation.
The participants of this study were adult women treated with over four cycles of cytotoxic chemotherapy.
Patients had completed cytotoxic chemotherapy an average of more than 2 years previously.
However, both incidence and management is complicated by the increased prevalence of adjuvant therapies such as chemotherapy and by previous surgery.
In our series chemotherapy prescribed in one heavily pretreated patient was associated with long-term disease stabilisation.
However, the urgency with which new anti-filarial chemotherapies are needed validates this approach as meriting further investigation.
Of the palliative options mentioned, some, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, could also be life-prolonging or even curative.
