Malawi Pilot Study of Burkitt Lymphoma Treatment

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 532-540

  Hesseling, Peter B ^a,c   Broadhead, Robin ^b   Molyneux, Elizabeth ^b   Borgstein, Eric ^b   Schneider, Johann W ^a   Louw, Mercia ^a   Mansvelt, Erna P G ^a   Wessels, Glynn ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c Department of Paediatrics ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Burkitt endemic disease; Childhood lymphoma; Developing country; Modified treatment

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALLOPURINOL; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; FOLINIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; KETAMINE; MEBENDAZOLE; METHOTREXATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NYSTATIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLEEDING; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; MALARIA; MALAWI; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; OLIGURIA; PARASITOSIS; PILOT STUDY; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEDATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0242574759     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.10322     Document Type: Article

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