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carboplatin

[¦kär·bō′plat·ən]
(medicine)
A platinum coordination compound and anticancer agent used for advanced gynecologic malignancies, especially ovarian tumors, and for head and neck cancers and lung cancers.
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All patients with serous EOC (except those with stage IA and IB disease) received 6 cycles of adjuvant carboplatinum and paclitaxel.
YKL-40 in the diagnosis, prediction of prognosis, and platinum sensitivity in serous epithelial ovarian cancer/Seroz epitelyal over kanserinde tanida, prognoz ve platin duyarliligi ongorusunde YKL-40 kullanimi
Chemotherapy was commenced using the combination of carboplatinum and etoposide with intravenous corticosteroids.
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A chemotherapy regimen was started in May 2011 consisting of 6 cycles of carboplatinum (290 mg/day, once in 21 days according to the AUC 4 protocol) and etoposide (100 mg/[m.sup.2], 170 mg for 3 days in 21-day cycles), and the treatment was completed in September.
Pure small cell carcinoma of the prostate: case report / Prostatin pur kucuk hucreli karsinomu: olgu sunumu
(6) In the less advanced cases chemotherapy only (usually VEC--vincristine, etoposide, carboplatinum) is given, or combined with orbital radiotherapy.
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My oncologist arranged for me to do six months of carboplatinum and Taxol.
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