Transcranial electro-hyperthermia combined with alkylating chemotherapy in patients with relapsed high-grade gliomas: Phase i clinical results

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 395-405

  Wismeth, Caecilia ^a   Dudel, Christine ^a   Pascher, Christina ^a   Ramm, Paul ^a   Pietsch, Torsten ^b   Hirschmann, Birgit ^a   Reinert, Christiane ^a   Proescholdt, Martin ^c   Rümmele, Petra ^a   Schuierer, Gerhard ^d   Bogdahn, Ulrich ^a   Hau, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d Institute of Neuroradiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dose limiting toxicity; Electro hyperthermia; High grade glioma; Maximum tolerated dose; MRI; Nimustine

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MANNITOL; NIMUSTINE;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RELAPSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DIZZINESS; DRUG RESPONSE; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LEUKOPENIA; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; PAIN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; SEIZURE; SOMNOLENCE; SPEECH DISORDER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTROHYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; VOMITING;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953611293     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-009-0093-0     Document Type: Article

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