Octreotide LAR and prednisone as neoadjuvant treatment in patients with primary or locally recurrent unresectable thymic tumors: a phase II study

Therapeutic options to cure advanced, recurrent, and unresectable thymomas are limited. The most important factor for long-term survival of thymoma patients is complete resection (R0) of the tumor. We therefore evaluated the response to and the induction of resectability of primarily or locally recu...

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Main Authors: Kirzinger, Lukas (Author) , Marx, Alexander (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: December 16, 2016
In: PLOS ONE
Year: 2016, Volume: 11, Issue: 12, Pages: e0168215
ISSN:1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0168215
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168215
Verlag, Volltext: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0168215
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Author Notes:Lukas Kirzinger, Sandra Boy, Jörg Marienhagen, Gerhard Schuierer, Reiner Neu, Michael Ried, Hans-Stefan Hofmann, Karsten Wiebe, Philipp Ströbel, Christoph May, Julia Kleylein-Sohn, Claudia Baierlein, Ulrich Bogdahn, Alexander Marx, Berthold Schalke

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