Secondary leukemia after first-line high-dose chemotherapy for patients with advanced germ cell cancer

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 255-260

  Wierecky, J ^a   Kollmannsberger, C ^a   Boehlke, I ^a   Kuczyk, M ^a   Schleicher, J ^b   Schleucher, N ^b   Metzner, B ^c   Kanz, L ^a   Hartmann, J T ^a   Bokemeyer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Katharinenhospital ^*  (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Etoposide; Germ cell cancer; High dose chemotherapy; Secondary leukemia

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; PACLITAXEL;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II; ETOPOSIDE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PACLITAXEL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 13744254771     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-004-0628-x     Document Type: Article

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