Preliminary report of outpatient weekly adjuvant chemotherapy for high- risk nasopharyngeal carcinoma

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 624-627

  Lin, Jin Ching ^a,b   Jan, Jian Sheng ^a   Hsu, Chen Yi ^a  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Adjuvant chemotherapy; Cisplatin; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OUTPATIENT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0029804234     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000421-199612000-00019     Document Type: Article

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