Combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy versus surgery and postoperative radiotherapy for advanced hypopharyngeal cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 405-411

  Zelefsky, Michael J ^a   Kraus, Dennis H ^a   Pfister, David G ^a   Raben, Adam ^a   Shah, Jatin P ^a   Strong, Elliot W ^a   Spiro, Ronald H ^a   Bosl, George J ^a   Harrison, Louis B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029782791     PISSN: 01486403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0347(199609/10)18:5<405::aid-hed3>3.0.co;2-9     Document Type: Article

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