The potential of sunitinib as a therapy in ovarian cancer

Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1671-1686

  Leone Roberti Maggiore, Umberto ^a   Valenzano Menada, Mario ^a   Venturini, Pier Luigi ^a   Ferrero, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Efficacy; Ovarian cancer; Safety; Sunitinib; Tolerability; Tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Indexed keywords

ALTRETAMINE; BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ERLOTINIB; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; IMATINIB; N DEETHYLSUNITINIB; NAVELBINE; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PEMETREXED; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; SUNITINIB; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TOPOTECAN;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADVANCED CANCER; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLEEDING; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DUODENUM CANCER; EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAIR DISCOLORATION; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEUKOPENIA; MELANOMA; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOUTH PAIN; MOUTH ULCER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; OMENTECTOMY; OVARIAN CLEAR CELL ADENOCARCINOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PAPILLEDEMA; PERITONEUM CANCER; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROTEINURIA; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN TOXICITY; SOLID TUMOR; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYROID CANCER; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE TUBE CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; ANIMALS; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDOLES; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PYRROLES;

EID: 84887633287     PISSN: 13543784     EISSN: 17447658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/13543784.2013.841138     Document Type: Article

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