Mitomycin C and cisplatin increase survival in a human pancreatic cancer metastatic model

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5 A, 1997, Pages 3623-3625

  Tomikawa, Moriaki ^a   Kubota, Tetsuro ^a   Matsuzaki, Shinjiro Wilson ^a   Takahasi, Shin ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a   Moosa, A R ^c   Hoffman, Robert M ^b,c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Combination chemotherapy; Metastatic model; Nude mice; Pancreatic cancer; Surgical implantation

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; MITOMYCIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER MODEL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PANCREAS CANCER; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA; CISPLATIN; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MITOMYCIN; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030782229     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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