A high rate of venous thromboembolism in a multi-institutional phase II trial of weekly intravenous gemcitabine with continuous infusion fluorouracil and daily thalidomide in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1629-1636

  Desai, Apurva A ^a,d   Vogelzang, Nicholas J ^a   Rini, Brian I ^a   Ansari, Rafat ^b   Krauss, Stuart ^a,c   Stadler, Walter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Michiana Hematology/Oncology   (United States)

^c WEISS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorouracil; Gemcitabine; Renal cell carcinoma; Thalidomide; Venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; THALIDOMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG RESPONSE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME; TOXICITY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALIDOMIDE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0037108279     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10847     Document Type: Article

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