Chemotherapy of thymic carcinoma: Analysis of seven cases and review of the literature

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 601-604

  Kitami, Akihiko ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^a   Kamio, Yoshito ^a   Suzuki, Shuichi ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Modified ADOC therapy; Thymic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZASETRON; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IFOSFAMIDE; MERCAPTOPURINE RIBOSIDE; NEDAPLATIN; PREDNISOLONE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ACUTE MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NAUSEA; PROGNOSIS; RASH; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0035708315     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hye136     Document Type: Article

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