The birth of chemotherapy at Yale: Bicentennial lecture series: Surgery grand round

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-172

  Christakis, Panos ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antineoplastic agents; Chemotherapy history; Intravenous infusions; Mechlorethamine; Nonhodgkin lymphoma

Indexed keywords

CHLORMETHINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DRUG RESEARCH; DYSPHAGIA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOSARCOMA; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TONSIL TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CONNECTICUT; DRUG THERAPY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 80053057787     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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