Abstract
We report the case of a 15-year-old girl with a large gluteal and perineal rhabdomyosarcoma diagnosed at 24 weeks of pregnancy, whose management posed a great clinical dilemma for us. The patient refused to consider a therapeutic abortion, so we opted for a customized treatment with mild doses of chemotherapy administered weekly to control tumor growth while minimizing fetal and perinatal complications. After the delivery of a healthy female, we adopted a more intensive chemotherapy regimen plus irradiation. Despite an initially good response, the disease unfortunately progressed and the patient died of her disease.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 431-433 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Tumori |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2008 |
Keywords
- Chemotherapy
- Pregnancy
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cancer Research
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Meazza, C., Casanova, M., Zaffignani, E., Clerici, C. A., Favini, F., Vasquez, R., & Ferrari, A. (2008). An adolescent with rhabdomyosarcoma during pregnancy. Tumori, 94(3), 431-433.