Combined modality therapy including surgery for stage III small-cell lung cancer on the basis of the sensitivity assay in vitro

Surgery Today

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-133

  Kobayashi, Shunsuke ^a   Okada, Shinichiro ^a   Hasumi, Toru ^b   Sato, Nobuyuki ^b   Fujimura, Shigefumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SENDAI KOUSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combined modality therapy; Sensitivity assay; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; NIMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034101809     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00010060     Document Type: Article

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