Improvement in the outcome of children with germ cell tumors

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 250-253

  Lopes, Luiz Fernando ^a,b,d   Sonaglio, Viviane ^a   Ribeiro, Karina C B ^a   Schneider, Dominik T ^c   De Camargo, Beatriz ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^b Brazilian Germ Cell Study Group

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SOBOPE Sociedade Brasileira de Oncologia Pediâtrica ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy GCT; Germ cell tumors childhood; Malignant germ cell tumor

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINBLASTINE; VINBLASTINE SULFATE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37549035046     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21268     Document Type: Article

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