Treatment of diencephalic syndrome with chemotherapy: Growth, tumor response, and long term control

Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 166-172

  Gropman, Andrea L ^a,i   Packer, Roger J ^a   Nicholson, H Stacy ^b   Vezina, L Gilbert ^b   Jakacki, Regina ^c   Geyer, Russell ^d   Olson, James M ^d,h   Phillips, Peter ^e   Needle, Michael ^e   Broxson Jr , Emmett H ^f   Reaman, Gregory ^b   Finlay, Jonathan ^g  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^d SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^f WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^g MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h American Brain Tumor Association

ⁱ CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Chemotherapy; Diencephalic syndrome; Glioma; Hypothalamic glioma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER CONTROL; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIENCEPHALON; DRUG RESPONSE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEEDING; FEMALE; FEVER; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR GROWTH; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBOPLATIN; EMACIATION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SYNDROME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0032127349     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980701)83:1<166::AID-CNCR22>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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