Chemotherapy for metastatic seminoma in elderly patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3 C, 2003, Pages 3093-3096

  Rentinck, M E M ^a   Nieboer, P ^a   Sleijfer, D Th ^a   Gietema, J A ^a   Van der Graaf, W T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Elderly; Seminoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROTOXICITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM; SEMINOMA; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0042623853     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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