Drug review: Safety and efficacy of bevacizumab for glioblastoma and other brain tumors

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 587-595

  Narita, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; Brain metastases; Glioblastoma; Glioma; Rebound

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; BORTEZOMIB; CARBOPLATIN; ERLOTINIB; ETOPOSIDE; IRINOTECAN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MENINGIOMA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER; MONOTHERAPY; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEINURIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION NECROSIS; REBOUND; REOPERATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

BEVACIZUMAB; BRAIN METASTASES; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; REBOUND;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEURILEMMOMA; RADIATION INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84878633794     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyt051     Document Type: Article

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