Lenalidomide for the treatment of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma

Cancer Management and Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 253-268

  van de Donk, Niels W C J ^a,b   Görgün, Güllü ^a   Groen, Richard W J ^a,b   Jakubikova, Jana ^a   Mitsiades, Constantine S ^a   Hideshima, Teru ^a   Laubach, Jacob ^a   Nijhof, Inger S ^b   Raymakers, Reinier A ^b   Lokhorst, Henk M ^b   Richardson, Paul G ^a   Anderson, Kenneth C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Immunomodulatory drugs; Lenalidomide; Multiple myeloma; Refractory disease; Relapse treatment

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BENDAMUSTINE; BORTEZOMIB; CANCER VACCINE; CARFILZOMIB; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACETUZUMAB; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ELOTUZUMAB; EVEROLIMUS; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; IXAZOMIB CITRATE; LENALIDOMIDE; LORVOTUZUMAB MERTANSINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; MELPHALAN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PERIFOSINE; PLACEBO; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN KINASE B INHIBITOR; TEMSIROLIMUS; THALIDOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ANEMIA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSTIPATION; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOPENIA; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FATIGUE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUSCLE CRAMP; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SOMNOLENCE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84930476992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CMAR.S27087     Document Type: Review

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