Effects of ghrelin administration during chemotherapy with advanced esophageal cancer patients: A prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled phase 2 study

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 4785-4794

  Hiura, Yuichiro ^a   Takiguchi, Shuji ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuyoshi ^a   Takahashi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kurokawa, Yukinori ^a   Yamasaki, Makoto ^a   Nakajima, Kiyokazu ^a   Miyata, Hiroshi ^a   Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki ^a   Mori, Masaki ^a   Kangawa, Kenji ^b   Doki, Yuichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

appetite; cisplatin based chemotherapy; esophageal cancer; food intake; ghrelin

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GHRELIN; PLACEBO; RAMOSETRON;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; APPETITE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; ENERGY INTAKE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GHRELIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 84865621644     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27430     Document Type: Article

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