Myeloablative combination chemotherapy without total body irradiation for neuroblastoma

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 274-279

  Kushner, Brian H ^a   O'Reilly, Richard J ^a   Mandell, Lynda R ^a   Gulati, Subhash C ^a   Laquaglia, Michael ^a   Cheung, Nai Kong V ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROPEROXYCYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; MELPHALAN; THIOTEPA;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CARMUSTINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MELPHALAN; NEUROBLASTOMA; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL RATE; THIOTEPA; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0026032601     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1991.9.2.274     Document Type: Article

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