Treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia with thalidomide and lenalidomide

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 12, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2857-2864

  Giannopoulos, Krzysztof ^a   Mertens, Daniel ^b,c   Stilgenbauer, Stephan ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Lenalidomide; Thalidomide

Indexed keywords

FLUDARABINE; LENALIDOMIDE; OFATUMUMAB; RITUXIMAB; THALIDOMIDE;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MONOTHERAPY; REVIEW;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; THALIDOMIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81855166080     PISSN: 14656566     EISSN: 17447666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14656566.2011.635644     Document Type: Review

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