Adjuvant therapy for extremity sarcomas

Current Treatment Options in Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 456-463

  Schlieman, Michael ^a   Smith, Richard ^a   Kraybill, William G ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE; IMATINIB; MESNA;

BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIMB SALVAGE; METASTASIS; MYELODYSPLASIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SARCOMA;

EID: 33750722793     PISSN: 15272729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-006-0021-x     Document Type: Review

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