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KMID : 0360320010330010034
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Journal of Korean Cancer Research Association
2001 Volume.33 No. 1 p.34 ~ p.40
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Interaction between Genetic Polymorphisms of CYP2E1 & NAT1 and Smoking in Lung Cancer Development (Preliminary report)
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강대희/1Kyoung Mu Lee
2Seung Joon Lee/3Sue Kyung Park/1Sang Yun Lee/1Hyung June Im/1Ki Jung Yoon/4In Mi Choi/4Young Ju Lee/5Soo Ung Kim/5Hwang Choi/6Seung Ho Choi/6Young Whan Kim/1Soo Hun Cho/1Daehee Kang
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Abstract
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PURPOSE: Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis occurs in about 5% of patients with solid tumor and is being diagnosed with increasing frequency as patients live longer and as neuro-imaging studies improve. In general, the most commom cancers that involved the leptomeninges are breast cancer, lung cancer, and malignant melanoma.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We investigated 25 patients presented with multiple neurologic symptoms and signs who were diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis at the Yonsei Cancer Center from January 1990 to December 1999.
RESULTS: The primary disease of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis were stomach cancer (10 cases), breast cancer (7 cases), lung cancer (5 cases), unknown primary cancer (2 cases) and common bile duct cancer (1 case). All patients were presented with multiple neurologic symptoms and signs involving the central nervous system (CNS), cranial nerve or spinal nerves. Twenty-one of twenty- five patients were treated with intrathecal chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or combination therapy. Fourteen of them (66.7%) experienced improvement or stabilization of neurologic symptom and sign. The median survival was 122 days (10-2190).
CONCLUSION: In conclusion, although early diagnosis and active treatment of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis may improve the quality of life in selected patients, the median survival was relatively short. Therefore, new diagnostic and therapeutic strategy for leptomeningeal carcinomatosis were needed.
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KEYWORD
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Lung neoplasm, Smoking, Cytochrome P450 2E1, N-acetyltransferase 1, Interaction,
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