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Record 1 2006-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Posology
CONT

Recently Drs. Beer and David Henner from the OHSU [Oregon Health & Science University] discovered that high doses could be administered safely using weekly oral administration. They described this as high dose pulse administration(HDPA). Using this regimen and a commercially available calcitriol product, over 90 patients with cancer have received and tolerated doses that were 60-100 times the currently approved dose.

Key term(s)
  • high-dose pulse administration
  • high-dose pulsed administration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Posologie
OBS

thérapie pulsée à forte dose; thérapie pulsée à dose élevée : termes retenus par le réseau Entraide Traduction Santé.

Spanish

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