Case Reports
Case reportTracheal cancer treated with a short course of external and endoluminal radio-chemotherapy combined with cetuximab – a case report
Papadopoulou A, Froudarakis M, Abatzoglou I, Koukourakis M. Case Reports
Case reportTracheal cancer treated with a short course of external and endoluminal radio-chemotherapy combined with cetuximab – a case report. Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy. 2010;2(4):160-162. doi:10.5114/jcb.2010.19496.
APA
Papadopoulou, A., Froudarakis, M., Abatzoglou, I., & Koukourakis, M. (2010). Case Reports
Case reportTracheal cancer treated with a short course of external and endoluminal radio-chemotherapy combined with cetuximab – a case report. Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy, 2(4), 160-162. https://doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2010.19496
Chicago
Papadopoulou, Aikaterini, Marios Froudarakis, Ioannis Abatzoglou, and Michael I. Koukourakis. 2010. "Case Reports
Case reportTracheal cancer treated with a short course of external and endoluminal radio-chemotherapy combined with cetuximab – a case report". Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy 2 (4): 160-162. doi:10.5114/jcb.2010.19496.
Harvard
Papadopoulou, A., Froudarakis, M., Abatzoglou, I., and Koukourakis, M. (2010). Case Reports
Case reportTracheal cancer treated with a short course of external and endoluminal radio-chemotherapy combined with cetuximab – a case report. Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy, 2(4), pp.160-162. https://doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2010.19496
MLA
Papadopoulou, Aikaterini et al. "Case Reports
Case reportTracheal cancer treated with a short course of external and endoluminal radio-chemotherapy combined with cetuximab – a case report." Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy, vol. 2, no. 4, 2010, pp. 160-162. doi:10.5114/jcb.2010.19496.
Vancouver
Papadopoulou A, Froudarakis M, Abatzoglou I, Koukourakis M. Case Reports
Case reportTracheal cancer treated with a short course of external and endoluminal radio-chemotherapy combined with cetuximab – a case report. Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy. 2010;2(4):160-162. doi:10.5114/jcb.2010.19496.
Primary tumors of the trachea are rare. Such cases are presented with acute respiratory distress demanding immediate therapeutic intervention. Herein, we present a case of an unresectable second primary tracheal cancer treated with intraluminal brachytherapy (8 Gy at 1 cm from catheter) followed by a short course of external beam hypofractionated radiotherapy (4.5 Gy × 4 fractions) and a final brachytherapy fraction (8 Gy), delivering a biological dose higher than 57.5 Gy (for / = 4 Gy) to the tumor within 4 weeks. Concurrent chemotherapy consisted of: fluoruracil (1000 mg/m2), leucovorin (100 mg/m2), oxaliplatin (80 mg/m2) and cetuximab (500 mg/m2), administered every two weeks for two consecutive cycles. Complete response was evident during the second brachytherapy fraction and the patient is alive with no evidence of disease, two years after therapy, without any late radiation sequel.
Keywords
brachytherapy, cetuximab, radiotherapy, trachea cancer