A total of 30 patients with recurrent or unresponsive diffuse, aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, who had previously received doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone with or without bleomycin were treated with a combination of doxorubicin, vincristine, ara C, prednisone, and bleom
Chemotherapy in patients who fail radiotherapy for diffuse aggressive non-hodgkin's lymphoma
β Scribed by James O. Armitage; B-Chen Wen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 571 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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