Palliative treatment of pancreatic cancer;Palliative therapie des pankreaskarzinoms

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 132, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 813-817

  Seufferlein, Thomas ^a,b   Von Wichert, G ^a   Adler, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Gemcitabine; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FLUOROPYRIMIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; OXALIPLATIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; PANCREAS CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; DIET THERAPY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; DEOXYCYTIDINE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NUTRITION THERAPY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 34247863711     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-973626     Document Type: Review

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