Improved tolerability and quality of life with maintained efficacy using twice-daily low-dose interferon-alpha-2b: results of a randomized phase II trial of low-dose versus intermediate-dose interferon-alpha-2b in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

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Published in Cancer on November 01, 2006

Authors

Nizar M Tannir1, Lorenzo Cohen, Xuemei Wang, Peter Thall, Paul F Mathew, Eric Jonasch, Arlene Siefker-Radtke, Lance C Pagliaro, Chaan S Ng, Christopher Logothetis

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ntannir@mdanderson.org

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