Bevacizumab for the Treatment of Glioblastoma

Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-135

  Gil Gil, Miguel J ^a   Mesia, Carlos ^a   Rey, Montserrat ^a   Bruna, Jordi ^b  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antiangiogenesis; Bevacizumab; Chemotherapy; Glioblastoma; Vgef

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; DOXORUBICIN; ERLOTINIB; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; FOTEMUSTINE; IRINOTECAN; PACLITAXEL; PLACEBO; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; SEIZURE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84878991085     PISSN: 11795549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/CMO.S8503     Document Type: Review

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