Long-term disease control with triapine-based radiochemotherapy for patients with stage IB2-IIIB cervical cancer

Background: National Cancer Institute phase I #7336 and phase II #8327 clinical trials explored the safety and efficacy of triapine (NSC #663249) added to cisplatin radiochemotherapy in untreated patients with advanced-stage cervical cancer. Triapine inhibits ribonucleotide reductase, the rate-limit...

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Main Authors: Charles A Kunos, Tracy M Sherertz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2014.00184/full