Gemcitabine pulmonary toxicity in ovarian cancer

Oncologist

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 807-811

  Ko, Emily ^a   Lee, Susanna ^a   Goodman, Annekathryn ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; CARBOPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PACLITAXEL; PREDNISONE; TAMOXIFEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG TOXICITY; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; REMISSION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 48749087387     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2008-0049     Document Type: Article

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