Bevacizumab Increases the Risk of Severe Congestive Heart Failure in Cancer Patients: An Up-to-Date Meta-Analysis with a Focus on Different Subgroups

Clinical Drug Investigation

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 681-690

  Qi, Wei Xiang ^a,b   Fu, Shen ^a,b   Zhang, Qing ^a,b   Guo, Xiao Mao ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT DURATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; HEART FAILURE; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84919436159     PISSN: 11732563     EISSN: 11791918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40261-014-0222-1     Document Type: Review

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