Can protocol-specified doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy be used as a measure of treatment actually received? A CCG/NIH study on long-term survivors of acute lymphocytic leukemia

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 687-690

  Haupt, Riccardo ^a,b   Novakovic, Biljana ^b,e   Fears, Thomas R ^b   Byrne, Julianne ^c   Robinson, Leslie L ^d   Tucker, Margaret A ^b   Reaman, Gregory H ^c  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lymphocytic leukemia; Chemotherapy; Clinical trials; Compliance; Radiation; Survivors

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; GENDER; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RELAPSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029945151     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(96)00029-7     Document Type: Article

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