Phase i study of oxaliplatin in combination with gemcitabine, irinotecan, and 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (G-FLIE) in patients with metastatic solid tumors including adenocarcinoma of the pancreas

Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 182-189

  Olszewski, Adam J ^a   Grossbard, Michael L ^b   Chung, Michael S ^b   Chalasani, Sree B ^a   Malamud, Stephen ^b   Mirzoyev, Tahir ^a   Kozuch, Peter S ^b  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Gemcitabine; Irinotecan; Oxaliplatin; Pancreatic cancer; Phase I

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAMPTOTHECIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BLEEDING; BONE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSGEUSIA; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PATIENT HISTORY OF CHEMOTHERAPY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SOLID TUMOR; STOMATITIS; TASTE DISORDER; THERAPY DELAY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADENOCARCINOMA; METASTASIS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CAMPTOTHECIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84887080214     PISSN: 19416628     EISSN: 19416636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12029-012-9466-2     Document Type: Article

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