Arsenic trioxide/ascorbic acid therapy in patients with refractory metastatic colorectal carcinoma: A clinical experience

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 557-561

  Subbarayan, Pochi R ^a   Lima, Mayra ^a   Ardalan, Bach ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ASCORBIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RESISTANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENITAL HERPES; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ARSENICALS; ASCORBIC ACID; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OXIDES; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248549243     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860601042456     Document Type: Article

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