Randomized phase III trial in childhood high-grade astrocytoma comparing vincristine, lomustine, and prednisone with the eight-drugs-in-1-day regimen

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 112-123

  Finlay, Jonathan L ^a   Boyett, James M ^b   Yates, Allan J ^b   Wisoff, Jeffrey H ^b   Milstein, Jerrold M ^b   Geyer, J Russell ^b   Bertolone, Salvatore J ^b   McGuire, Patricia ^b   Cherlow, Joel M ^b   Tefft, Melvin ^b   Turski, Patrick A ^b   Wara, William M ^b   Edwards, Michael ^b   Sutton, Leslie N ^b   Berger, Mitchell S ^b   Epstein, Fred ^b   Ayers, Gregory ^b   Allen, Jeffrey C ^b   Packer, Roger J ^b  

^a CHILDREN S ONCOLOGY GROUP   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYTARABINE; DACARBAZINE; HYDROXYUREA; LOMUSTINE; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUTROPENIA; OTOTOXICITY; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0028850852     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/jco.1995.13.1.112     Document Type: Article

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