Complete surgical resection combined with aggressive adjuvant chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation prolongs survival in children with advanced neuroblastoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 93-100

  Chamberlain, Ronald S ^a   Quinones, Ralph ^b   Dinndorf, Patricia ^b   Movassaghi, Nasser ^b   Goodstein, Miriam ^c   Newman, Kurt ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Chemotherapy; Neuroblastoma; Surgical resection

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE TABLE; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROBLASTOMA; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE TABLES; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0029270006     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02303622     Document Type: Article

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