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Descriptor English: Maintenance Chemotherapy
Descriptor Spanish: Quimioterapia de Mantención
Descriptor quimioterapia de mantenimiento
Scope note: Tratamiento diseñado para ayudar a prevenir una recidiva de una enfermedad después de tratamientos primarios satisfactorios (QUIMIOTERAPIA DE INDUCCIÓN y QUIMIOTERAPIA DE CONSOLIDACIÓN) con un tratamiento farmacológico a dosis bajas durante un período de tiempo prolongado.
Descriptor Portuguese: Quimioterapia de Manutenção
Descriptor French: Chimiothérapie de maintenance
Entry term(s): Chemotherapies, Maintenance
Chemotherapy, Maintenance
Maintenance Chemotherapies
Tree number(s): E02.319.509
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D060046
Scope note: 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Public MeSH Note: 2012
History Note: 2012
Related: Administration, Metronomic MeSH
DeCS ID: 54685
Unique ID: D060046
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Date Established: 2012/01/01
Date of Entry: 2011/06/24
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Maintenance Chemotherapy - Preferred
Concept UI M0552677
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Maintenance Chemotherapy
Entry term(s) Chemotherapies, Maintenance
Chemotherapy, Maintenance
Maintenance Chemotherapies



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