Evaluation of patients with advanced neuroblastoma surviving more than 5 years after initiation of an intensive Japanese protocol: A report from the Study Group of Japan for Treatment of Advanced Neuroblastoma

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 515-520

  Iwafuchi, Makoto ^a   Utsumi, Jiro ^b   Tsuchida, Yoshiaki ^b   Kaneko, Michio ^b   Matsuyama, Shiro ^b   Ohnuma, Naomi ^b   Taguchi, Nobuyuki ^b   Mugishima, Hideo ^b   Yokoyama, Jotaro ^b   Sasaki, Shingi ^b   Yoshioka, Akira ^b   Nagahara, Noboru ^b   Fukuzawa, Masahiro ^b   Suita, Sachiyo ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

advanced neuroblastoma; intensive induction chemotherapy; surgery; survival rate

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; NIMUSTINE; PIRARUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROBLASTOMA; ONCOGENE C MYB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; NEUROBLASTOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 10344240971     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199612)27:6<515::AID-MPO2>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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