Interim analysis of START: Study in asia of the combination of TACE (transcatheter arterial chemoembolization) with sorafenib in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma trial

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2448-2458

  Chung, Young Hwa ^a   Han, Guohong ^b   Yoon, Jung Hwan ^c   Yang, Jijin ^d   Wang, Jianhua ^e   Shao, Guo Liang ^f   Kim, Byung Ik ^g   Lee, Teng Yu ^h   Chao, Yee ⁱ  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ZHEJIANG CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^g School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^h TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

ⁱ TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

combination therapy; hepatocellular carcinoma; Phase II; sorafenib; transarterial chemoembolization

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; GELFOAM; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; SORAFENIB;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACNE; ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; APPLICATION SITE PAIN; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACKACHE; BENIGN TUMOR; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLISTER; BREAST DISEASE; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DECREASED APPETITE; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; DYSPNEA; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; EVENING DOSAGE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERURICEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; INFESTATION; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB PAIN; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INJURY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICTURITION DISORDER; MOUTH ULCER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OPEN STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PAPULAR RASH; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHLEBITIS; POSTEMBOLIZATION SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINORRHEA; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SYNDROME; THORAX DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETERIZATION; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NIACINAMIDE; PHENYLUREA COMPOUNDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874941591     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27925     Document Type: Article

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