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Efficacy and tolerability of a low-dose, 2-week administration of sunitinib followed by a week rest (2/1 schedule) for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a single center experience of six cases

BACKGROUND: Sunitinib, an oral multitarget tyrosine kinase inhibitor and standard first-line treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), is generally administered on a 6-week schedule (4 weeks on/2 weeks off). However, drug toxicity often leads to temporary treatment interruption, resultin...

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Autores principales: Makino, Katsuhiro, Yoda, Kenji, Tomoishi, Junzo, Kume, Haruki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25471941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-872