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Hematologic Disease

Research on hematologic disease published by scientists at University of Tokyo

Published in Drug Law Weekly, March 11th, 2008

"Home care has become a treatment option for cancer patients; however, medical practice at patients' homes has been expected mainly for terminal care in Japan," researchers in Tokyo, Japan report.

"Most physicians believe that it is difficult to treat patients with hematologic malignancy at home because they frequently develop complications requiring urgent interventions. We herein report the case of an 80-year-old patient with advanced follicular lymphoma who safely received aggressive chemotherapy at home and finally died due to disease progression at the hospital," wrote Y. Kodama and colleagues, University of Tokyo.

The researchers concluded:...

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