VEGF remains an interesting target in advanced pancreas cancer (APCA): Results of a multi-institutional phase II study of bevacizumab, gemcitabine, and infusional 5-fluorouracil in patients with APCA

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2812-2820

  Martin, L K ^a   Li, X ^b   Kleiber, B ^b   Ellison, E C ^c   Bloomston, M ^a   Zalupski, M ^d   Bekaii Saab, T S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil; Bevacizumab; Gemcitabine; Pancreas cancer; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BEVACIZUMAB; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ADVANCED PANCREAS CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSGEUSIA; EPISTAXIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEINURIA; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SIDE EFFECT; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84868123504     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mds134     Document Type: Article

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