3 treatment settings, 3 with more than one named option. Each section lays out the options the standard of care names, what each is for, the trials behind them with their recorded results, the side effects and cautions on record, and questions to ask. Built from the cancer page's standard-of-care rows; nothing here is advice for your case.
Complete resection; surveillance for tumours with malignant features; no proven adjuvant therapy.
Removing a bone or soft-tissue sarcoma while keeping the arm or leg, rebuilding with metal implants, bone grafts or growing prostheses in children.
For low-risk prostate cancer, monitoring with PSA, MRI, and repeat biopsy instead of treating, because most such cancers never cause harm.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
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Nab-sirolimus (AMPECT; FDA approved 2021); oral sirolimus, everolimus or temsirolimus as alternatives; check TSC status.
Fyarro is an infusion of the transplant drug sirolimus packaged in albumin particles. It is the first approved treatment for malignant PEComa, a rare soft-tissue tumour driven by loss of the TSC genes.
An mTOR-blocking pill that doubled progression-free time with exemestane in 2012 and is now paired with the oral SERD giredestrant.
A weekly infusion that was the first drug to extend survival in poor-risk kidney cancer (2007), and in 2024 the first targeted drug to improve outcomes in childhood rhabdomyosarcoma.
Objective response 39% (independent review), durable, enriched in TSC2-mutant tumours; FDA approval November 2021.
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Anthracycline- or gemcitabine-based chemotherapy has modest activity; trials of mTOR-based combinations; PRECISION 1 for TSC-altered tumours.
The red chemotherapy drug from a soil bacterium that is still the backbone of treatment for sarcoma, lymphoma and breast cancer, limited by cumulative heart damage.
A versatile chemotherapy used in pancreatic, bladder, lung, ovarian, breast and biliary cancers, in nasopharyngeal cancer, and as a bladder instillation.
No headline result recorded yet.
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