Advancements in the management of pancreatic cancer: 2013

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 112-118

  Saif, Muhammad Wasif ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Drug therapy; Gemcitabine; Neoplasm metastasis; Pancreas; Pancreatic neoplasms; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; ERLOTINIB; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; GEMCITABINE ELAIDATE; GIMERACIL PLUS OTERACIL POTASSIUM PLUS TEGAFUR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IRINOTECAN; MITOMYCIN; NANOPARTICLE; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PLACEBO; SARIDEGIB; SOMATOMEDIN; STREPTOZOCIN; VISMODEGIB;

ADVANCED CANCER; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; DIARRHEA; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LOW DRUG DOSE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS SURGERY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CAMPTOTHECIN; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84875047028     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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