Metronomic chemotherapy: Principles and lessons learned from applications in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer

Recent Results in Cancer Research

Volumn 180, Issue , 2010, Pages 165-183

  Emmenegger, Urban ^a   Francia, Giulio ^b   Shaked, Yuval ^b   Kerbel, Robert S ^b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRAMUSTINE PHOSPHATE; MESNA; THALIDOMIDE; UFT;

ANEMIA; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG MECHANISM; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; METASTASIS; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 77953654553     PISSN: 00800015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78281-0_10     Document Type: Review

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