Treatment of patients with pineoblastoma with high dose cyclophosphamide

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 387-392

  Ashley, David M ^a   Longee, Daryll ^a   Tien, Robert ^a   Fuchs, Herbert ^a   Graham, Michael L ^a   Kurtzberg, Joanne ^a   Casey, Janet ^a   Olson, Janice ^a   Meier, Lisa ^a   Ferrell, Lee ^a   Kerby, Tracy ^a   Duncan Brown, Margaret ^a   Stewart, Elizabeth ^a   Colvin, O Michael ^c   Pipas, J Marc ^b   McCowage, Geoffrey ^a   McLendon, Roger ^a   Bigner, Darell D ^a   Friedman, Henry S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cyclophosphamide; neoadjuvant chemotherapy; pineoblastoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LOMUSTINE; MELPHALAN; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PINEAL GLAND; PINEALOMA; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REMISSION INDUCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPINAL CORD; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 15844377237     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199606)26:6<387::AID-MPO3>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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