Phase I-II study of combined 5-fluorouracil and cisplatin chemotherapy and altered fractionation radiotherapy for advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 342-347

  Fishman, A ^a,b   Chiu, J K ^a   Girtanner, R E ^a   Dennis, W ^a   Carpenter, L S ^a   Lu, H H ^a   Woo, S Y ^a   Kerley, J M ^a   Kaplan, A L ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Cervical carcinoma; Chemotherapy; Cisplatin; Radiotherapy, fractionated

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL KILLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSENSITIZATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CISPLATIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIUM; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030791609     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000421-199708000-00004     Document Type: Article

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