Contribution of glycosylated recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (lenograstim) use in current cancer treatment: Review of clinical data

Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 615-630

  Gunzer, Katharina ^a   Clarisse, Bénédicte ^a   Lheureux, Stéphanie ^a   Delcambre, Corinne ^a   Joly, Florence ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FRANÇOIS BACLESSE   (France)

^b CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; Febrile neutropenia; G CSF; Lenograstim

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; CYTOKINE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; IDARUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOXANTRONE; PIRARUBICIN; PLACEBO; PLATINUM; PREDNISOLONE; RANIMUSTINE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADVANCED CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKAPHERESIS; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MEDLINE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PROPHYLAXIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOLID TUMOR; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 77949452159     PISSN: 14712598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14712591003689964     Document Type: Review

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