High complete response rate of concomitant chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 101-108

  Lin, Jin Ching ^a,b   Ho, Esther Shih Chu ^a   Jan, Jian Sheng ^a   Yang, Ching Hwa ^a   Liu, Fu Shing ^a  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0029923156     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1996.0105     Document Type: Article

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