Etoposide and teniposide are semisynthetic derivatives of podophyllotoxin and are
increasingly used in cancer medicine. Teniposide is more highly protein-bound than …

Etoposide, a semisynthetic derivative of podophyllotoxin, is increasingly used to treat
cancer. Etoposide is a phase‐specific, cytotoxic drug acting in the late S and early G2 …

OBJECTIVE--To compare responses of patients with cancer with those of a matched control
group, cancer specialists, general practitioners, and cancer nurses in assessing personal …

The extent to which a doctor or health professional can make a valid assessment of a
patient's quality of life, anxiety and depression was investigated in a series of cancer …

Patients with impaired renal function may experience severe and prolonged respiratory
depression when treated with morphine. This has been attributed to accumulation of the …

Objectives: To determine what proportion of oncology patients receiving conventional
medical treatment also use complementary treatments; to assess which complementary …

For many cancer patients and their families the experience of cancer is an intensely stressful
one. Emotional support is important for most cancer patients during their illness and can be …

There is a considerable knowledge base about the information needs of patients with cancer
(and their relatives and friends). Those needs will vary according to the disease, the stage of …

The stability and recovery of six human recombinant cytokines (tumour necrosis factor (TNF),
interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha), IFN-gamma, interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), IL-1 beta, and IL …

Etoposide is an increasingly used and well-tolerated drug in cancer medicine. Its cytotoxic
action is phase-specific and it has demonstrated schedule dependency in both in vitro and …