## Background: For advanced colorectal carcinoma, 5-fluorouracil (5-fu)-leucovorin is the best therapy available. to improve results, a variety of drugs were added, including cisplatin (cddp), sometimes with controversial results. the combination of cddp and etoposide (vp-16) has shown synergistic
Phase II study of etoposide and alpha-interferon in patients with advanced measurable colorectal carcinoma
โ Scribed by Jaffer A. Ajani; James L. Abbruzzese; Avi B. Markowitz; Yehuda Z. Patt; Karen Daugherty
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6997
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