Ovarian cancer: Strategies for overcoming resistance to chemotherapy

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 502-516

  Agarwal, Roshan ^a   Kaye, Stan B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMINEDICHLORO(2 METHYLPYRIDINE)PLATINUM; ANTHRACYCLINE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIESTROGEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BBR 3464; BORTEZOMIB; CANFOSFAMIDE; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE INHIBITOR; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPOTHILONE B; ERLOTINIB; ETOPOSIDE; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; GLYCOPROTEIN P; IXABEPILONE; LUNG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; LURTOTECAN; MATUZUMAB; METHENAMINE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NAVELBINE; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PACLITAXEL DERIVATIVE; PACLITAXEL POLIGLUMEX; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; SORAFENIB; TAMOXIFEN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TIPIFARNIB; TOPOTECAN; TRABECTEDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALSPODAR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANTIBODY DIRECTED ENZYME PRODRUG THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; DRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; OVARY TUMOR; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0043240182     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1123     Document Type: Review

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