Importance of salvage therapy in the management of high-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia

Journal of Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 219-224

  Lurain, John R ^a   Schink, Julian C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia; Salvage therapy

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; FOLINIC ACID; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; DRUG RESISTANCE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; LEUCOVORIN; METHOTREXATE; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 84864152653     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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