Cisplatin, gemcitabine and treosulfan is effective in chemotherapy- pretreated relapsed stage IV uveal melanoma patients

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 685-688

  Atzpodien, Jens ^a,b   Terfloth, Kerstin ^a   Fluck, Michael ^a   Reitz, Martina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Europaisches Institut fur Tumor Immunologie und Pravention EUTIP   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cisplatin; Gemcitabine; Treosulfan; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; FOTEMUSTINE; GEMCITABINE; LOMUSTINE; TREOSULFAN; TROFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN METASTASIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UVEA MELANOMA; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BUSULFAN; CISPLATIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL RATE; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 47549083687     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00280-007-0655-9     Document Type: Article

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