Exploiting novel molecular targets in gastrointestinal cancers

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 44, 2007, Pages 5845-5856

  Ma, Wen W ^a   Hidalgo, Manuel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Colorectal; Epidermal growth factor receptor; Liver cancers; mTOR; Pancreatic; Targeted therapy

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CETUXIMAB; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; ERLOTINIB; EVEROLIMUS; FLUOROPYRIMIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; IRINOTECAN; LAPATINIB; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; MATUZUMAB; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PANITUMUMAB; PLACEBO; RAPAMYCIN; RAPAMYCIN DERIVATIVE; REGENERON; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TEMSIROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN TRAP;

ACNE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EPISTAXIS; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HAIR; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LETHARGY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MELANOMA; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PROTEINURIA; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN; SOLID TUMOR; STOMATITIS; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 36349031829     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i44.5845     Document Type: Article

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