Adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 461-469

  Beaven, Anne W ^a   Goldberg, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CETUXIMAB; CYTARABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; HEPARIN; IRINOTECAN; LEVAMISOLE; MITOMYCIN; OXALIPLATIN; SEMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAMPTOTHECIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ALOPECIA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; LOCAL THERAPY; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PERITONEUM; REVIEW; STOMATITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DRUG COMBINATION; HISTORY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CAMPTOTHECIN; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FLUOROURACIL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEUCOVORIN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 33750116211     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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