Clinical overview of metronomic chemotherapy in breast cancer

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 631-644

  Munzone, Elisabetta ^a   Colleoni, Marco ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIIDIOTYPIC ANTIBODY; BEVACIZUMAB; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CANCER VACCINE; CAPECITABINE; CELECOXIB; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; DPX SURVIVAC VACCINE; EPIRUBICIN; ERLOTINIB; FLUOROURACIL; FULVESTRANT; LETROZOLE; MEGESTROL ACETATE; METHOTREXATE; NANOPARTICLE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PREDNISONE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; THALIDOMIDE; TRASTUZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG REPOSITIONING; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE CHEMOTHERAPY; METRONOMIC CHEMOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; METRONOMIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, METRONOMIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84946474811     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2015.131     Document Type: Review

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