Evidence supporting preoperative chemotherapy for small cell carcinoma of the bladder: A retrospective review of the M. D. Anderson cancer experience

Journal of Urology

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 481-484

  Siefker Radtke, Arlene O ^a   Dinney, Colin P ^a   Abrahams, Neil A ^a   Moran, Cesar ^a   Shen, Yu ^a   Pisters, Louis L ^a   Grossman, H Barton ^a   Swanson, David A ^a   Millikan, Randall E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder neoplasms; Chemotherapy; Drug therapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3142580404     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000132413.85866.fc     Document Type: Article

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