maximum tolerated dose
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GC: n

S: Van Hoff, D. et al (2005): Pancreatic Cancer. Massachusetts, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, p. 188; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6540742 (last access: 29 June 2017).

N: 1. Abbreviated term: MTD.
2. The highest dose of a drug or treatment that does not cause unacceptable side effects. The maximum tolerated dose is determined in clinical trials by testing increasing doses on different groups of people until the highest dose with acceptable side effects is found.

S: 1 & 2. http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary?cdrid=546597 (last access: 2 September 2014).

GV: maximum-tolerated dose

S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://goo.gl/2eaCFT (last access: 29 June 2017)

SYN: MTD, highest nontoxic dose, HNTD, maximum dose, dosis tolerata (Latin). (depending on context and fields)

S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://goo.gl/2eaCFT (last access: 29 June 2017)

CR: clinical pharmacology