Role of taxanes in pancreatic cancer

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 4457-4465

  Belli, Carmen ^a   Cereda, Stefano ^a   Reni, Michele ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

ABI 007; Advanced disease; Chemotherapy; Drug combinations; Metastatic disease; Pancreatic cancer; Radiotherapy; Taxanes

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; IRINOTECAN; MITOMYCIN; PACLITAXEL; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ANEMIA; ASTHENIA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED ANEMIA; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DUCT ADENOCARCINOMA; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84867725219     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i33.4457     Document Type: Editorial

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