Oral urea in the treatment of secondary tumours in the liver.

Twenty patients with secondary liver tumours, predominantly from colorectal carcinoma, were treated with oral urea at a daily dose of 8 gm-2. Treatment was well tolerated without side-effects. No objective responses were seen. It is concluded that oral urea is ineffective in the treatment of liver m...

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Autores principales: Clark, P. I., Slevin, M. L., Webb, J. A., Osborne, R. J., Jones, S., Wrigley, P. F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1988
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2246510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3355771
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author Clark, P. I.
Slevin, M. L.
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Osborne, R. J.
Jones, S.
Wrigley, P. F.
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description Twenty patients with secondary liver tumours, predominantly from colorectal carcinoma, were treated with oral urea at a daily dose of 8 gm-2. Treatment was well tolerated without side-effects. No objective responses were seen. It is concluded that oral urea is ineffective in the treatment of liver metastases from colorectal cancer. IMAGES:
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spelling pubmed-22465102009-09-10 Oral urea in the treatment of secondary tumours in the liver. Clark, P. I. Slevin, M. L. Webb, J. A. Osborne, R. J. Jones, S. Wrigley, P. F. Br J Cancer Research Article Twenty patients with secondary liver tumours, predominantly from colorectal carcinoma, were treated with oral urea at a daily dose of 8 gm-2. Treatment was well tolerated without side-effects. No objective responses were seen. It is concluded that oral urea is ineffective in the treatment of liver metastases from colorectal cancer. IMAGES: Nature Publishing Group 1988-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2246510/ /pubmed/3355771 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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