A randomized phase II study of biweekly irinotecan monotherapy or a combination of irinotecan plus 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (mFOLFIRI) in patients with metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma refractory to or progressive after first-line chemotherapy

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 481-488

  Sym, Sun Jin ^a   Hong, Junshik ^a   Park, Jinny ^a   Cho, Eun Kyung ^a   Lee, Jae Hoon ^a   Park, Yeon Ho ^a   Lee, Woon Ki ^a   Chung, Min ^a   Kim, Hyung Sik ^a   Park, Se Hoon ^b   Shin, Dong Bok ^a  

^a Gachon University   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Irinotecan; Second line; Stomach cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ERYTHEMA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CAMPTOTHECIN; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874114491     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: 14320843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00280-012-2027-3     Document Type: Article

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