MTOR as a therapeutic target in patients with gastric cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 491-496

  Al Batran, Salah Eddin ^a   Ducreux, Michel ^b   Ohtsu, Atsushi ^c  

^a KRANKENHAUS NORDWEST   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

everolimus; gastric adenocarcinoma; gastric cancer; mTOR; mTOR inhibitors

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; EVEROLIMUS; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; MITOMYCIN C; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PLACEBO;

ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TARGETING; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; METASTASIS; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH CANCER; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR BLEEDING;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 82255194078     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.26396     Document Type: Review

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