Refining the treatment of advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer

Lung Cancer: Targets and Therapy

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 9-22

  Ogita, Shin ^a   Wozniak, Antoinette J ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Lung cancer; Targeted treatment

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CEDIRANIB; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CP 751871; DOCETAXEL; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; IRINOTECAN; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PEMETREXED; PLACEBO; PLATINUM COMPLEX; SORAFENIB; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; VANDETANIB;

ACNE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADVANCED CANCER; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VOMITING;

EID: 77955180842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11792728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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