"Maintenance Chemotherapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Treatment designed to help prevent a relapse of a disease following the successful primary treatments (INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY and CONSOLIDATION CHEMOTHERAPY) with a long-term low-dose drug therapy.
| Descriptor ID |
D060046
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.319.509
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| Concept/Terms |
Maintenance Chemotherapy- Maintenance Chemotherapy
- Chemotherapies, Maintenance
- Chemotherapy, Maintenance
- Maintenance Chemotherapies
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Maintenance Chemotherapy" by people in Profiles.
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Significant erythroid megaloblastic changes in patients treated with allopurinol during maintenance chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 11; 70(11):e30631.
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Adjuvant Maintenance Larotrectinib Therapy in 2 Children With NTRK Fusion-positive High-grade Cancers. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Oct 01; 43(7):e987-e990.
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Esophageal Varices in Adolescent and Young Adult Males with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2019 04; 8(2):217-220.
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Maintenance Therapy With Immunomodulatory Drugs in Multiple Myeloma: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2016 Mar; 108(3).
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Augmented Berlin-Frankfurt-M?nster therapy in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Cancer. 2014 Dec 01; 120(23):3660-8.
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Current regimens and novel agents for mantle cell lymphoma. Br J Haematol. 2014 Oct; 167(1):3-18.
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Use of allopurinol in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia to reduce skewed thiopurine metabolism. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014 Jun; 61(6):1114-7.
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Metastatic extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma (EES)/primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of the kidney: 8-year durable response after induction and maintenance chemotherapy. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2012 Sep; 10(3):210-2.