Antitumor activity of paclitaxel after failure of high-dose chemotherapy in a patient with late relapse of a non-seminomatous germ cell tumor

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 716-718

  Gerl, Arthur ^a   Wilmanns, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Germ cell tumor; Late relapse; Paclitaxel; Salvage treatment

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DIMETHOATE; ETOPOSIDE; PACLITAXEL; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CARCINOMA, EMBRYONAL; HUMANS; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; PACLITAXEL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SALVAGE THERAPY; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0029864521     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001813-199608000-00014     Document Type: Article

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