Intensive short course chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy of locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1973-1977

  Zidan, Jamal ^a,b   Kuten, Abraham ^a   Robinson, Eliezer ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

carcinoma of nasopharynx; chemotherapy; combined chemo radiotherapy; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VOMITING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029665084     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960515)77:10<1973::AID-CNCR2>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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