A phase II study of tamoxifen plus melatonin in metastatic solid tumour patients.

For example, measurement of tumour shrinkage is a commonly used surrogate endpoint in solid tumour response evaluation.

Angiogenesis inhibitors such as nintedanib may be effective in a range of solid tumour types including; lung, ovarian, metastatic bowel, liver and brain cancer.

As ALL is not a solid tumour, the TNM notation as used in solid cancers is of little use.

Pein F, Sakiroglu O, Dahan M, et al.: Cardiac abnormalities 15 years and more after adriamycin therapy in 229 childhood survivors of a solid tumour at the Institut Gustave Roussy.

Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery, radiation, and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers, such as the leukaemias, in which no central growth can be removed.