Salvage chemotherapy with methotrexate, etoposide and actinomycin D in men with metastatic nonseminomatous germ cell tumors with a choriocarcinoma component: A preliminary report

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 881-885

  Terakawa, Tomoaki ^a   Miyake, Hideaki ^a   Muramaki, Mototsugu ^a   Takenaka, Atsushi ^a   Fujisawa, Masato ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

human chorionic gonadotropin; actinomycin D; etoposide; methotrexate; nonseminomatous germ cell tumor

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NONSEMIMOMATOUS GERM CELL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957276745     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2010.02618.x     Document Type: Article

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