Systemic therapy of non-resectable metastatic melanoma

Cancers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 955-969

  Orouji, Azadeh ^a   Goerdt, Sergij ^a   Utikal, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Melanoma; Metastatic; Small molecules; Targeted therapy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ALPHA2B INTERFERON; BCG VACCINE; BLEOMYCIN; CANVAXIN; CARBOPLATIN; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4 ANTIBODY; DACARBAZINE; FOTEMUSTINE; GEMCITABINE; HYDROXYUREA; INTERLEUKIN 2; IPILIMUMAB; LOMUSTINE; MELANOMA VACCINE; NITROSOUREA; PACLITAXEL; PLACEBO; PLATINUM COMPLEX; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TICILIMUMAB; TREOSULFAN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINCA ALKALOID; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; COLITIS; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TARGETING; FATIGUE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG EDEMA; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREATITIS; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 79952269662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers2020955     Document Type: Review

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