Randomized trial with neoadjuvant chemotherapy in stage IIIB squamous carcinoma cervix uteri: An unexpected therapeutic management

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 85-93

  Sardi, J ^a   Giaroli, A ^a   Sananes, C ^a   Rueda, N G ^a   Vighi, S ^a   Ferreira, M ^a   Bastardas, M ^a   Paniceres, G ^a   Di Paola, G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

locally advanced cervical cancer; neoadjuvant chemotherapy; radiotherapy in cervical cancer; surgery in cervical cancer

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; VINCRISTINE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG TOXICITY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0029881084     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1438.1996.06020085.x     Document Type: Article

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