Taxol and vinorelbine: A new active combination for disseminated malignant melanoma

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-165

  Retsas, Spyros ^a   Mohith, Anil ^a   Mackenzie, Helen ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disseminated; malignant; melanoma; taxol; treatment; vinorelbine

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CIMETIDINE; DACARBAZINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FOTEMUSTINE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BRAIN; CANCER REGRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED CANCER; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; OMENTUM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SPLEEN;

EID: 0029944673     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001813-199602000-00003     Document Type: Article

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