Risk of treatment-related deaths with vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors: A meta-analysis of 41 randomized controlled trials

OncoTargets and Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue , 2014, Pages 1851-1867

  Hong, Shaodong ^a   Fang, Wenfeng ^a   Liang, Wenhua ^a   Yan, Yue ^a   Zhou, Ting ^a   Qin, Tao ^a   Wu, Xuan ^a   Ma, Yuxiang ^a   Zhao, Yuanyuan ^a   Yang, Yunpeng ^a   Hu, Zhihuang ^a   Xue, Cong ^a   Hou, Xue ^a   Huang, Yan ^a   Zhao, Hongyun ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Chen, Yue ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer; Meta analysis; Treatment related death; Tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Indexed keywords

AXITINIB; CABOZANTINIB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; DOCETAXEL; ERLOTINIB; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; INTERFERON; IRINOTECAN; LAPATINIB; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PAZOPANIB; PEMETREXED; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; REGORAFENIB; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TEMSIROLIMUS; VANDETANIB;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG FATALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; MELANOMA; META ANALYSIS; MONOTHERAPY; NEUTROPENIA; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PATIENT MONITORING; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THYROID CANCER; TREATMENT RELATED DEATH; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR;

EID: 84908202712     PISSN: 11786930     EISSN: 11786930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OTT.S68386     Document Type: Article

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