Phase II study of gemcitabine, doxorubicin and paclitaxel (GAT) as first-line chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer: A translational research experience

BMC Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Passardi, Alessandro ^a   Massa, Ilaria ^b   Zoli, Wainer ^a   Gianni, Lorenzo ^c   Milandri, Carlo ^a   Zumaglini, Federica ^b   Nanni, Oriana ^b   Maltoni, Roberta ^a   Frassineti, Giovanni Luca ^a   Amadori, Dino ^d  

^a MORGAGNI PIERANTONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ONCOLOGICO ROMAGNOLO   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Infermi   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CIMETIDINE; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LETROZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PACLITAXEL; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART FUNCTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PREMEDICATION; SEPSIS; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VOMITING; BREAST TUMOR; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PACLITAXEL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645757580     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-6-76     Document Type: Article

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