Intra-arterial mitoxantrone and paclitaxel in a patient with Stewart-Treves syndrome: Selection of chemotherapy by an ex vivo ATP-based chemosensitivity assay

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 269-273

  Breidenbach, M ^a   Rein, D ^a   Schmidt, T ^a   Heindel, W ^b   Kolhagen, H ^a   Mallmann, P ^a   Kurbacher, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATP tumor chemosensitivity assay; Intraarterial chemotherapy; Mitoxantrone; Paclitaxel; Stewart Treves syndrome

Indexed keywords

MITOXANTRONE; PACLITAXEL;

AGED; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; STEWART TREVES SYNDROME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LYMPHANGIOSARCOMA; LYMPHEDEMA; MITOXANTRONE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PACLITAXEL; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0034123389     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001813-200004000-00007     Document Type: Article

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