Adjuvant chemotherapy for primary cardiac sarcomas: The IGR experience

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1624-1628

  Llombart Cussac, A ^a,b   Pivot, X ^a   Contesso, G ^a   Rhor Alvarado, A ^a   Delord, J P ^a   Spielmann, M ^a   Tursz T ^a   Le Cesne, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardiac sarcomas; Cardiac tumours; Chemotherapy; Sarcomas; Vascular sarcomas

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA;

EID: 0031791196     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1998.733     Document Type: Article

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