Guidelines and recommendations for the management of anaemia in patients with lymphoid malignancies

Drugs

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-194

  Henry, David H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANEMIC AGENT; CNTO 528; CONTINUOUS ERYTHROPOIESIS RECEPTOR ACTIVATOR; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR; FG 2216; HEMATIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; IRON; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; OXYGENASE INHIBITOR; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ASTHENIA; BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG BINDING; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG RESEARCH; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IRON THERAPY; LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ANEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPOETIN ALFA; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; IRON; LYMPHOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 33846961787     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 00126667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200767020-00002     Document Type: Review

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