Gemcitabine and cisplatin for advanced urothelial carcinomas: The Ehime University Hospital experience

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 279-283

  Ozawa, Akira ^a   Tanji, Nozomu ^a   Ochi, Tatsumasa ^a   Yanagihara, Yutaka ^a   Kikugawa, Tadahiko ^a   Yamaguchi, Akiko ^a   Ikeda, Tetsuhiro ^a   Shimamoto, Kenji ^a   Aoki, Katsunori ^a   Toshino, Akihiko ^a   Yokoyama, Masayoshi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cisplatin; Gemcitabine; Metastatic urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA; CISPLATIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547900283     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-007-0678-6     Document Type: Article

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