Octreotide LAR and Prednisone as Neoadjuvant Treatment in Patients with Primary or Locally Recurrent Unresectable Thymic Tumors: A Phase II Study.

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Published in PLoS One on December 16, 2016

Authors

Lukas Kirzinger1, Sandra Boy1, Jörg Marienhagen2, Gerhard Schuierer3, Reiner Neu4, Michael Ried4, Hans-Stefan Hofmann4, Karsten Wiebe5, Philipp Ströbel6, Christoph May7, Julia Kleylein-Sohn7, Claudia Baierlein7, Ulrich Bogdahn1, Alexander Marx8, Berthold Schalke1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
2: Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
3: Institute of Neuroradiology, BKR, Regensburg, Germany.
4: Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
5: Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
6: Institute of Pathology, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
7: Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany.
8: Institute of Pathology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.

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