Is there a role for mitomycin C in metastatic colorectal cancer?

Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 723-735

  Dimou, Anastasios ^a   Syrigos, Kostas N ^a   Saif, Muhammad Wasif ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 FU; Capecitabine; Colon cancer; Irinotecan; Metastatic cancer; Mitomycin C

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; OXALIPLATIN; UFT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ASTHENIA; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG CANCER; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH CANCER; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MITOMYCIN; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 77952403746     PISSN: 13543784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/13543784.2010.485191     Document Type: Review

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