Quality-of-life and health benefits of early treatment of mild anemia: A randomized trial of epoetin alfa in patients receiving chemothepy for hematologic malignancies

Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1909-1917

  Straus, David J ^a   Testa, Marcia A ^b   Sarokhan, Brenda J ^c   Czuczman, Myron S ^d   Tulpule, Anil ^e   Turner, Ralph R ^f   Riggs, Shirley A ^g  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Ortho Biotech Products LP   (United States)

^d ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Phase V Technologies Inc   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Anemia; Epoetin alfa; Hematologic malignancies; Productivity; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BED REST; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPNEA; EARLY INTERVENTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INSOMNIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OPEN STUDY; PAIN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RHINITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; EPOETIN ALFA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 33750075749     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22221     Document Type: Article

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