The degree of tumor volume reduction during the early phase of induction chemotherapy is an independent prognostic factor in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 656-664

  Yoo, So Young ^a   Kim, Jung Sun ^a   Sung, Ki Woong ^a   Jeon, Tae Yeon ^a   Choi, Joon Young ^a   Moon, Seung Hwan ^a   Son, Meong Hi ^a   Lee, Soo Hyun ^a   Yoo, Keon Hee ^a   Koo, Hong Hoe ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; metaiodobenzylguanidine score; neuroblastoma; prognosis; transplantation

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 131; BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; THIOTEPA;

ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPENIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY INTERVENTION; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOMARKERS, PHARMACOLOGICAL; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; INFANT; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84872955791     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27775     Document Type: Article

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