Advanced pancreatic carcinoma: Current treatment and future challenges

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 163-172

  Stathis, Anastasios ^a   Moore, Malcolm J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLIBERCEPT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AXITINIB; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CELECOXIB; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CURCUMIN; DALTEPARIN; DNA; ENOXAPARIN; ERLOTINIB; EXATECAN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; GV 1001; IRINOTECAN; MARIMASTAT; MASITINIB; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; NADROPARIN; OXALIPLATIN; PEMETREXED; RUBITECAN; SORAFENIB; TANOMASTAT; TIPIFARNIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESPONSE; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949264996     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2009.236     Document Type: Review

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