New strategies in ewing sarcoma: Lost in translation?

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3050-3056

  Arnaldez, Fernanda I ^a   Helman, Lee J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LEXATUMUMAB; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MIDOSTAURIN; MITHRAMYCIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; OLAPARIB; SOMATOMEDIN RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND RECEPTOR; VORINOSTAT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; PARP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARCINOGENICITY; CHILD; EPIGENETICS; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; EWING SARCOMA; HUMAN; METASTASIS; ONCOGENE C MYC; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BONE NEOPLASMS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; SARCOMA, EWING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASE INHIBITORS; RECEPTORS, SOMATOMEDIN; SARCOMA, EWING;

EID: 84902685236     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-13-0633     Document Type: Article

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