Once-weekly dosing of epoetin-α increases hemoglobin and improves quality of life in anemic cancer patients receiving radiation therapy either concomitantly or sequentially with chemotherapy

Cancer

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1072-1079

  Shasha, Daniel ^a   George, Martine J ^b   Harrison, Louis B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Clinical Affairs   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Epoetin ; Hemoglobin (Hb); Neoplasm; Quality of life (QOL); Radiation oncology

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENERGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; VOMITING;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EPOETIN ALFA; FEMALE; HEMATINICS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0042889128     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11616     Document Type: Article

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