Chemotherapy with cisplatin and continuous infusion of 5-fluorouracil and bleomycin for recurrent and metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Taiwan

Oncology (Switzerland)

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 205-208

  Su, Wu Chou ^a   Chen, Tsai Yun ^a   Kao, Ruey Ho ^a   Tsao, Chao Jung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; OTOTOXICITY; PARESTHESIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SEPSIS; STOMATITIS; TAIWAN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN;

EID: 0027210488     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000227179     Document Type: Article

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