Cyclophosphamide and cancer: Golden anniversary

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 638-647

  Emadi, Ashkan ^a   Jones, Richard J ^b   Brodsky, Robert A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE 1A1; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ALLOIMMUNITY; ANEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BLADDER CANCER; BLOOD TOXICITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HEMORRHAGIC NECROTIC PERIMYOCARDITIS; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPONATREMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOPENIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOCYTOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYOCARDITIS; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; OVARY CANCER; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70350786392     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2009.146     Document Type: Review

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