Molecular mistletoe therapy: Friend or foe in established antitumor protocols? a multicenter, controlled, retrospective pharmaco-epidemiological study in pancreas cancer

Current Molecular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 430-439

  Matthes, H ^a   Friedel, W E ^b   Bock, P R ^c   Zanker K S ^d  

^a Department of General Internal Medicine   (Germany)

^b Hospital Bad Bocklet   (Germany)

^c IFAG Basel AG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gemcitabine; Integrative oncology; Iscador; Mistletoe; Overall survival; Pancreatic carcinoma; Pharmaco epidemiological study; Supportive care; Symptom control

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 77953523650     PISSN: 15665240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156652410791317057     Document Type: Article

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