Superiority of post-radiotherapy adjuvant chemotherapy with CCNU, procarrazine, and vincristine (PCV) over BCNU for anaplastic gliomas: NCOG 6G61 final report

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 321-324

  Levin, Victor A ^a   Silver, Pamela ^a   Hannigan, John ^b   Wara, William M ^a   Gutin, Philip H ^a   Davis, Richard L ^a   Wilson, Charles B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Radiation Oncology University of California San Francisco Medical School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

BCNU; CCNU; Chemotherapy; Glioblastoma multiforme; Glioma; PCV; Procarbazine

Indexed keywords

CARMUSTINE; HYDROXYUREA; LOMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARMUSTINE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; LOMUSTINE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PROCARBAZINE; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0025239917     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(90)90096-3     Document Type: Article

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