Gemcitabine and vinorelbine in recurrent advanced non-small cell lung cancer: Sequence does matter

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 621-629

  Juergens, Rosalyn ^a   Brahmer, Julie ^a   Ettinger, David ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gemcitabine; Metastatic; Non small cell lung cancer; Vinorelbine

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; GEMCITABINE; NAVELBINE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG TOLERANCE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARTHRALGIA; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 33847141908     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00280-006-0304-8     Document Type: Article

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