Combined irinotecan, oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil in patients with advanced colorectal cancer: A feasibility pilot study

Oncology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 254-265

  Calvo, Emiliano ^a,c   Cortés, Javier ^a   González Cao, María ^a   Rodríguez, Javier ^a   Aramendía, José Manuel ^a   Fernández Hidalgo, Óscar ^a   Martín Algarra, Salvador ^a   Salgado, José Esteban ^a   Martínez Monge, Rafael ^a   De Irala, Jokin ^b   Brugarolas, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c USP Hospital San Jaime   (Spain)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Advanced colorectal carcinoma; Irinotecan; Oxaliplatin; Pilot study

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMATITIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CAMPTOTHECIN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIARRHEA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUTROPENIA; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PILOT PROJECTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 0036970052     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065474     Document Type: Article

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