Results from a pilot phase I trial of gefitinib combined with docetaxel and estramustine in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1917-1924

  Wilding, George ^a   Soulie, Patrick ^b   Trump, Donald ^c   Das Gupta, Ashis ^d   Small, Eric ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CENTRE PAUL PAPIN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Docetaxel; Epidermal growth factor receptor; Estramustine; Gefitinib; Hormone refractory prostate cancer; Tyrosine kinase inhibitor

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CIMETIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; ESTRAMUSTINE; GEFITINIB; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACNE; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BONE PAIN; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSTIPATION; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRY SKIN; EPISTAXIS; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; GENERALIZED EDEMA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHARYNGITIS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; TASTE DISORDER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VASODILATATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AREA UNDER CURVE; ESTRAMUSTINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUINAZOLINES; TAXOIDS;

EID: 33646381126     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21831     Document Type: Article

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