Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with metastatic cancer and high-grade gliomas of the central nervous system

Journal of Infusion Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 263-269

  Lemke, Denise M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Froetdert Memorial Lutheran Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARMUSTINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FAMOTIDINE; LOMUSTINE; METHOTREXATE; PHENYTOIN; PROCARBAZINE; RANITIDINE; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ASTROCYTOMA; BENIGN TUMOR; BLOOD; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL DIVISION; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SELF CONCEPT; SPINE; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 3142779150     PISSN: 15331458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129804-200407000-00012     Document Type: Review

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