Systemic chemotherapy alone for patients with non-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related central nervous system lymphoma : A pilot study of the BOMES protocol

✍ Scribed by Ann-Lii Cheng; Kun-Huei Yeh; Wu-Ching Uen; Ruey-Long Hung; Mei-Ying Liu; Chiu-Hwa Wang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 84 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19980515)82:10<1946::aid-cncr19>3.0.co;2-t

✦ Synopsis

BACKGROUND.

Anecdotal reports have suggested that systemic chemotherapy with agents that better cross the blood-brain barrier may result in long term disease Kun-Huei Yeh, M.D. 2, remission in some patients with central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma. This Wu-Ching Uen, M.D. 2 treatment strategy has the advantage of sparing patients the late neurologic compli-