Future directions of bone-targeted therapy for metastatic breast cancer

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 641-651

  Onishi, Tomifumi ^a   Hayashi, Naoki ^b   Theriault, Richard L ^b   Hortobagyi, Gabriel N ^b   Ueno, Naoto T ^b  

^a Magnet Program and Clinical Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; AP 12009; BALICATIB; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BOSUTINIB; CAPECITABINE; CATHEPSIN K INHIBITOR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CLODRONIC ACID; CTCE 9908; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DASATINIB; DENOSUMAB; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; EXEMESTANE; FLUOROURACIL; GC 1008; IBANDRONIC ACID; IXABEPILONE; LETROZOLE; PAMIDRONIC ACID; PLACEBO; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; SAMARIUM 153; SARACATINIB; TAMOXIFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BONE DESTRUCTION; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL HOMING; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEUKEMIA; MELANOMA; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELOMA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCLASTOGENESIS; OSTEOCLASTOMA; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PANCREAS CANCER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARYNX CANCER; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHEPSIN K; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; DIPHOSPHONATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; LIGANDS; NF-KAPPA B; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RANK LIGAND; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 78049463805     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2010.134     Document Type: Review

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