Contemporary management of locally invasive bladder cancer

Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Dickstein, Rian J ^a   Kamat, Ashish M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOZYME; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; BORTEZOMIB; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DASATINIB; DOXORUBICIN; EPOTHILONE DERIVATIVE; ERLOTINIB; FLUOROURACIL; GALLIUM NITRATE; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; IPILIMUMAB; IRINOTECAN; LAPATINIB; METHOTREXATE; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PAZOPANIB; PEMETREXED; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TRASTUZUMAB; VINBLASTINE; VINFLUNINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSTIPATION; CYSTECTOMY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETHARGY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALAISE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE CANCER; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROPATHY; ORGAN PRESERVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCYTOPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE ADENOMA; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RECURRENT CANCER; ROBOTICS; STOMATITIS; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URINARY DIVERSION; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BLADDER TUMOR; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINARY DIVERSION;

EID: 84855602713     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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