Systemic management strategies for metastatic soft tissue sarcoma

Drugs

Volumn 71, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2115-2129

  Movva, Sujana ^a   Verschraegen, Claire ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dacarbazine; Docetaxel; Doxorubicin; Eribulin; Gemcitabine; Ifosfamide; Paclitaxel; Palifosfamide; Soft tissue sarcoma; Trabectedin

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; BEVACIZUMAB; CIXUTUMUMAB; CONATUMUMAB; DACARBAZINE; DACOMITINIB; DASATINIB; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ERIBULIN; EVEROLIMUS; FIGITUMUMAB; GANITUMAB; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; IMATINIB; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PALIFOSFAMIDE; PANITUMUMAB; PAZOPANIB; PLACEBO; RIDAFOROLIMUS; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TEMSIROLIMUS; TRABECTEDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIO 201;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANGIOSARCOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CYTOPENIA; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EWING SARCOMA; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FIBROSARCOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY TUBULE ACIDOSIS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PLASMA CONCENTRATION-TIME CURVE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA CELL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOLID TUMOR; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOXICITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DIOXOLES; DOXORUBICIN; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; LYSINE; PACLITAXEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TETRAHYDROISOQUINOLINES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 80155159979     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 11791950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11594500-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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