Vascular sarcomas

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 347-355

  Ravi, Vinod ^a   Patel, Shreyaskumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adriamycin; Angiosarcoma; Angiosarcoma treatment; Bevacizumab; Docetaxel; Doxorubicin; Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma; Gemcitabine; Ifosfamide; Orally administered cyclophosphamide; Paclitaxel; Pazopanib; Sorafenib; Sunitinib; Vascular sarcoma; Vascular sarcomas; Vascular tumors

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; DACARBAZINE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; LENALIDOMIDE; MITOMYCIN; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PAZOPANIB; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; THALIDOMIDE;

ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTERIOVENOUS ANGIOMA; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EPITHELIOID CELL HEMANGIOMA; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PROGNOSIS; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; VASCULAR TUMOR; VENOUS HEMANGIOMA;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA, EPITHELIOID; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY;

EID: 84880836042     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: 15346269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-013-0328-2     Document Type: Article

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