Adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II nonseminomatous germ-cell tumors

Seminars in Urologic Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 239-243

  Kondagunta, G Varuni ^a,b   Motzer, Robert J ^a,b,c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b J/SIW Med Coll Cornell Univ ^*  (United States)

^c Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Nonseminomatous germ cell tumors; Review; Stage II

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; VINBLASTINE;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; LUNG TOXICITY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN TOXICITY; STOMATITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036864942     PISSN: 10810943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/suro.2002.36975     Document Type: Review

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