Maintenance therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer: Current status, controversies, and emerging consensus

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2496-2504

  Owonikoko, Taofeek K ^a   Ramalingam, Suresh S ^a   Belani, Chandra P ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ERLOTINIB; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; LOMUSTINE; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PEMETREXED; PLACEBO; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; VINBLASTINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLUTAMATES; GUANINE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUINAZOLINES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951711337     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-2328     Document Type: Review

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