Multimodal therapy for the management of primary, nonmetastatic Ewing's Sarcoma of bone: A long-term follow-up of the first intergroup study

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1990, Pages 1664-1674

  Nesbit Jr , Mark E ^a   Gehan, Edmund A ^b   Burgert Jr , E Omer ^b   Vietti, Teresa J ^b   Cangir, Ayten ^b   Tefft, Melvin ^b   Evans, Richard ^b   Thomas, Patrick ^b   Askin, Frederic B ^b   Kissane, J M ^b   Pritchard, Douglas J ^b   Herrmann, Janice ^b   Neff, James ^b   Makley, John T ^b   Gilula, Louis ^b  

^a Division of Hematology Oncology and Transplantation   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0025008189     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1990.8.10.1664     Document Type: Article

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