Randomised phase-II trial of CAPIRI (capecitabine, irinotecan) plus bevacizumab vs FOLFIRI (folinic acid, 5-fluorouracil, irinotecan) plus bevacizumab as first-line treatment of patients with unresectable/metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-459

  Souglakos, J ^a   Ziras, N ^a   Kakolyris, S ^a   Boukovinas, I ^a   Kentepozidis, N ^a   Makrantonakis, P ^a   Xynogalos, S ^a   Christophyllakis, Ch ^a   Kouroussis, Ch ^a   Vamvakas, L ^a   Georgoulias, V ^a   Polyzos, A ^a  

^a Hellenic Oncology Research Group HORG   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; CAPIRI; FOLFIRI; MCRC; Phase II trial

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CETUXIMAB; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY DELAY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CAMPTOTHECIN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GREECE; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856435741     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.594     Document Type: Article

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