Chemotherapy for brain stem gliomas

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 545-553

  Freeman, Carolyn R ^a   Perilongo, Georgio ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain stem tumors; Chemotherapy; Treatment

Indexed keywords

1 (2 CHLOROETHYL) 3 (2,6 DIOXO 3 PIPERIDYL) 1 NITROSOUREA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; IFOSFAMIDE; IPROPLATIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; MESNA; MISONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; TAMOXIFEN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; THIOTEPA; TOPOTECAN; TROFOSFAMIDE;

BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GLIOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 0032694190     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050542     Document Type: Review

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