## BACKGROUND. Advanced unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma has a dismal prognosis. The authors previously have shown that retinoic acid (RA) and interferon-␣ (IFN-␣) inhibit growth and induce differentiation in human pancreatic carcinoma cells in vitro and in vivo. The purpose of this trial wa
Phase II evaluation of paclitaxel, α-interferon, and cis-retinoic acid in advanced renal cell carcinoma
✍ Scribed by Ulka Vaishampayan; Lawrence Flaherty; Wei Du; Maha Hussain
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Volume
- 92
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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