Therapy with azanucleosides for myelodysplastic syndromes

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 433-444

  Quintás Cardama, Alfonso ^a   Santos, Fabio P S ^a   Garcia Manero, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 PHENYLBUTYRIC ACID; 5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AZACITIDINE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DNA; GEMTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LENALIDOMIDE; MGCD 010335; N (2 AMINOPHENYL) 4 (3 PYRIDINYLMETHOXYCARBONYLAMINOMETHYL)BENZAMIDE; N (2 AMINOPHENYL) 4 [4 (3 PYRIDINYL) 2 PYRIMIDINYLAMINOMETHYL]BENZAMIDE; RETINOIC ACID; THALIDOMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VORINOSTAT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER REGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYDROLYSIS; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TARGETING; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; AZACITIDINE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955170877     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2010.87     Document Type: Review

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