Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma

Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma - American Cancer Society

Most often, 2 or 3 drugs are given at the same time. A standard combination is carboplatin, vincristine, and etoposide, although for very small ...

Chemotherapy in Retinoblastoma: Current Approaches - PMC

A promising approach is induction chemotherapy (vincristine, cyclophosphamide, cisplatin, etoposide), which should be followed by autologous hematopoietic stem ...

Intra Arterial Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma

Intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma delivers concentrated doses of cancer-killing medicine directly to the affected area of the eye.

Intra-arterial Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma - EyeWiki

Intra-arterial (IA) chemotherapy for the treatment of intraocular retinoblastoma, also referred to as superselective intra-arterial ...

Intra-arterial chemotherapy delivers most precise treatment for ...

While systemic chemotherapy, where cancer drugs are infused into the body through the veins, can be an effective treatment for retinoblastoma, ...

Treatment of Retinoblastoma, Based on Extent of the Disease

If systemic chemotherapy (chemotherapy given by vein) is used, it is typically given for about 6 months to shrink the tumor as much as possible.

Retinoblastoma Treatment (PDQ®) - NCI

Patients with stage II or III retinoblastoma (n = 19) received four cycles of chemotherapy (vincristine, cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, etoposide) ...

Achieving new standards with methods of chemotherapy - PMC - NCBI

Intravenous chemotherapy is the treatment of choice in bilateral cases of RB. In these cases with germline mutation, in addition to intraocular tumor control, ...

Three vs 6 Cycles of Chemotherapy for High-Risk Retinoblastoma

This is the largest prospective study on adjuvant chemotherapy courses for high-risk retinoblastoma after enucleation. Results show that 3 ...

Update on chemotherapy modalities for retinoblastoma

A novel approach termed precision intravitreal chemotherapy (p-IvitC) emerged in 2018 for treating localized vitreous seeding in retinoblastoma. This technique ...

Intravitreal Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma: Promising but ...

Intra-arterial and intravitreal chemotherapy can be more potent than intravenous therapy and can cause dramatic regression of tumors in advanced ...

Treating retinoblastoma | Cancer Research UK

into their bloodstream (intravenously) through a long flexible plastic tube - systemic chemotherapy · through a blood vessel (artery) to the affected eye - intra ...

Retinoblastoma Treatment - NCI

Retinoblastoma treatment may include cryosurgery, laser therapy (thermotherapy), chemotherapy, radiation therapy, high-dose chemotherapy ...

Intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma

Intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC) for retinoblastoma is a minimally invasive and chemotherapeutic approach resulting in eye salvage and vision restoration or ...

Treatment of Retinoblastoma: What Is the Latest and ... - Frontiers

Drug selection was mainly on an empirical basis. During the last two decades, etoposide for systemic chemotherapy and both topotecan and melphalan, and also ...

Complications of Systemic Chemotherapy as Treatment of ...

However, systemic chemotherapy employed for retinoblastoma has been associated with adverse events such as myelosuppression and subsequent infections and need ...

Retinoblastoma frontiers with intravenous, intra-arterial, periocular ...

There are several chemotherapy approaches to retinoblastoma. In general, most children with bilateral retinoblastoma receive systemic IVC for ...

Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma: Impact of Intravitreal ...

Intra-arterial chemotherapy is very efficacious similar to IVC in achieving tumor control in early retinoblastoma (groups A, B, and C; International ...

Retinoblastoma treatment side effects | Childhood Eye Cancer Trust

Side effects from chemotherapy are reassuringly low and most patients can expect very few late effects. The drugs used to treat retinoblastoma (carboplatin, ...

Comparison between intravenous chemotherapy and intra-arterial ...

Intravenous chemotherapy (IVC) and intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC) have become the primary treatments for retinoblastoma; however, ...