Radioembolization of liver metastases in patients with colorectal cancer: A nonsurgical treatment with combined modality potential

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 4041-4042

  Philip Kuebler, J ^a  

^a RIVERSIDE METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOXURIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; YTTRIUM 90; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; CAMPTOTHECIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; MICROSPHERE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; YTTRIUM;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIOACTIVITY; STOMACH ULCER; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG RESISTANCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TUMOR; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; METASTASIS; NOTE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRACHYTHERAPY; CAMPTOTHECIN; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MICROSPHERES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YTTRIUM ISOTOPES;

EID: 70249149739     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2009.23.2785     Document Type: Editorial

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