Role of mycobacterium w as adjuvant treatment of lung cancer (non-small cell lung cancer)

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 118-120

  Sur, Prabir Kumar ^a   Dastidar, Aloke Ghosh ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium w; Non small cell lung cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; IMMUVAC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL VACCINE; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHRONOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INJECTION PAIN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SEQUENTIAL CHEMOTHERAPY; SKIN INDURATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADOLESCENT; AGED; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0043270342     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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