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- Title
Monitoring Patients With Implanted Cardiac Rhythm Devices Receiving Radiation Therapy.
- Authors
Chavez, Marilyn I.
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 78-year-old man with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and administered with rituxumab. It mentions that the man presented with a mass enlargement in his left-anterior shoulder and biopsy revealed a Merkel cell carcinoma. It states that radiation therapy was determined to eradicate his heart disease and he were scheduled to have pacemaker explanted from the left chest and he proceeded with prescribed radiation therapy.
- Subjects
CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia; MERKEL cell carcinoma; RADIOTHERAPY; HEART diseases; THERAPEUTICS; BIOPSY
- Publication
Oncology Nursing Forum, 2009, Vol 36, Issue 6, p629
- ISSN
0190-535X
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1188/09.ONF.629-632