Combination chemotherapy for metastatic or locally advanced genitourinary squamous cell carcinoma: A phase II study of methotrexate, cisplatin and bleomycin

Journal of Urology

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1770-1774

  Corral, David A ^a   Sella, Avishay ^a   Pettaway, Curtis A ^a   Amato, Robert J ^a   Jones, Donnah M ^a   Ellerhorst, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleomycins; Carcinoma, squamous cell; Chemotherapy, adjuvant; Cisplatin; Methotrexate

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

EID: 0344378211     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)62402-9     Document Type: Article

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