[Chemotherapy of sarcomas in the adult]

Bull Cancer. 1988;75(5):483-92.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Chemotherapy has an increasing part in bone and soft tissue sarcoma treatment, due to new drugs, more efficient drug associations and to a better definition of their indications, depending on histological type (which conditions chemosensitivity), local extension and metastatic risk.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Cyclophosphamide / administration & dosage
  • Doxorubicin / administration & dosage
  • Humans
  • Methotrexate / administration & dosage
  • Osteosarcoma / drug therapy
  • Sarcoma / drug therapy*
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / drug therapy
  • Soft Tissue Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Vincristine / administration & dosage

Substances

  • Vincristine
  • Doxorubicin
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Methotrexate

Supplementary concepts

  • CAV protocol