The Pilot Trial of the Prevention of the Increase in Electrical Taste Thresholds by Zinc Containing Fluid Infusion during Chemotherapy to Treat Primary Lung Cancer

Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 557-563

  Yamagata, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Nakamura, Y ^a   Yamagata, Y ^a   Nakanishi, M ^a   Matsunaga, K ^a   Nakanishi, H ^a   Nishimoto, T ^a   Minakata, Y ^a   Mune, M ^a   Yukawa, S ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Div of Clin Oncol/Palliative Med   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Electrogustometer; Lung cancer; Taste threshold; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ACTIT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; INFUSION FLUID; MITOMYCIN C; TRIFLUID; VINDESINE; ZINC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHORDA TYMPANI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ELECTROGUSTOMETRY; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISORDER; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

AGED; ELECTRICITY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TASTE DISORDERS; TASTE THRESHOLD; ZINC;

EID: 10744223386     PISSN: 03929078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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