Current research and development of chemotherapeutic agents for Melanoma

Cancers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 397-419

  Hsan, Kyaw Minn ^a   Chen, Chun Chieh ^a   Shyur, Lie Fen ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapeutic drugs; Cutaneous malignant melanoma; Herbal medicines; Metastasis; Phytoagents

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; AMIFOSTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; CYSTEMUSTINE; DACARBAZINE; DOCETAXEL; EVEROLIMUS; FOTEMUSTINE; GENISTEIN; LOMUSTINE; NITROSOUREA DERIVATIVE; OBLIMERSEN; PACLITAXEL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLATINUM COMPLEX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SEMUSTINE; SORAFENIB; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TUBULIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINCA ALKALOID; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE; ZENIPLATIN;

ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER INHIBITION; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CONSTIPATION; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG FEVER; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG RESEARCH; EDEMA; ENZYME INHIBITION; FATIGUE; FEVER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALAISE; MELANOMA; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OTOTOXICITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 79952268979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers2020397     Document Type: Review

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