Phase 2 trial of erlotinib combined with cisplatin and radiotherapy in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1187-1193

  Nogueira Rodrigues, Angelica ^a   Moralez, Giulliana ^a   Grazziotin, Rachele ^a   Carmo, Claudio C ^a   Small, Isabele A ^a   Alves, Flavia V G ^a   Mamede, Marcelo ^a   Erlich, Felipe ^a   Viegas, Celia ^a   Triginelli, Sergio A ^b   Ferreira, Carlos G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cervical cancer; chemotherapy; clinical trial; erlotinib; phase 2; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ERLOTINIB;

ACTINIC RECTITIS; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISTANT METASTASIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; LUNG METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RASH; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VAGINA DISEASE; VASCULAR TOXICITY; VOMITING;

CERVICAL CANCER; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; ERLOTINIB; PHASE 2; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CISPLATIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84898028011     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28471     Document Type: Article

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