A Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of high dose tamoxifen and weekly cisplatin in patients with metastatic melanoma
โ Scribed by Edward F. McClay; Mary-Eileen T. McClay; Jeffery A. Jones; Paul J. Winski; Randolf D. Christen; Stephen B. Howell; Philip D. Hall
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 97 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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โฆ Synopsis
by 40 mg to the MTD in groups of 3 patients. DDP (80 mg/m 2 ) was begun on Day ogy/Oncology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical 2 and repeated weekly for a total of 3 weeks. During Week 4, the patients were University of South Carolina, Charleston, South not treated with DDP but instead evaluated for response. If disease stabilization Carolina.
or regression was documented, the patients received a second 3-week cycle of
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