New directions in the systemic treatment of metastatic thyroid cancer

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Higgins, Michaela J ^b   Forastiere, Arlene ^a   Marur, Shanthi ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXITINIB; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; COLCHICINE; COMBRETASTATIN A4 PHOSPHATE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GEFITINIB; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; IMATINIB; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE 131; IRINOTECAN; LENALIDOMIDE; MOTESANIB; PACLITAXEL; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RECOMBINANT THYROTROPIN; RETINOIC ACID; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; THALIDOMIDE; THYROTROPIN; VANDETANIB; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ALOPECIA; ANOREXIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RESISTANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIARRHEA; DISTANT METASTASIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG UPTAKE; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WEIGHT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 70349271352     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: 08909091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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