Controversies in antiepidermal growth factor receptor therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1941-1950

  Woo, Janghee ^a   Palmisiano, Neil ^b   Tester, William ^a   Leighton Jr , John C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antiepidermal growth factor receptor therapy; cetuximab; chemotherapy; colorectal cancer; KRAS mutation; panitumumab

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CETUXIMAB; DOXYCYCLINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; PANITUMUMAB; STEROID; SUNSCREEN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; KRAS GENE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN TOXICITY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 84878014791     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27994     Document Type: Review

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