A phase 2 study of pemetrexed plus gemcitabine every 2 weeks for patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancer

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 795-801

  Fury, Matthew G ^a   Haque, Sofia ^a   Stambuk, Hilda ^a   Shen, Ronglai ^a   Carlson, Diane ^a   Pfister, David ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

gemcitabine; head and neck; pemetrexed; phase 2; squamous

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; PEMETREXED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEHYDRATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOUTH CANCER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; OPEN STUDY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN CELL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VEIN EMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GLUTAMATES; GUANINE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; RECURRENCE;

EID: 79551716023     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25464     Document Type: Article

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