Does maintenance/consolidation chemotherapy have a role in the management of small cell lung cancer (SCLC)? A metaanalysis of the published randomized controlled trials

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2650-2657

  Bozcuk, Hakan ^a   Artac, Mehmet ^a   Ozdogan, Mustafa ^a   Savas, Burhan ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Maintenance consolidation chemotherapy; Metaanalysis; Small cell lung cancer (SCLC)

Indexed keywords

ALTRETAMINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FOLINIC ACID; IFOSFAMIDE; LOMUSTINE; METHOTREXATE; TOPOTECAN; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG TOXICITY; EUROPEAN LUNG CANCER WORKING PARTY SCORE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPENIC SEPSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ARTICLE; CONSOLIDATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; MAINTENANCE CHEMOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 29144480913     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21540     Document Type: Review

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