Local delivery of chemotherapy and concurrent external beam radiotherapy prolongs survival in metastatic brain tumor models

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 5217-5223

  Ewend, Matthew Glaize ^a,b   Williams, Jeffery A ^a,b   Tabassi, Khosrow ^a   Tyler, Betty Mae ^a   Babel, Kelly M ^a   Anderson, Richard C ^a   Pinn, Michael L ^a   Brat, Daniel J ^b   Brem, Henry ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPTOTHECIN; CARBOPLATIN; CARMUSTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BIODEGRADATION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAMPTOTHECIN; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, LEWIS LUNG; CARMUSTINE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029801129     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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