A phase III randomized trial comparing concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy with radiotherapy alone in resectable stage III and iv squamous cell head and neck cancer: Preliminary results

Head and Neck

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 567-575

  Adelstein, David J ^a   Saxton, Jerrold P ^a   Lavertu, Pierre ^a   Tuason, Laurie ^a   Wood, Benjamin G ^a   Wanamaker, John R ^a   Eliachar, Isaac ^a   Strome, Marshall ^a   Van Kirk, Marjorie A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Chemotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Organ preservation; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FLUOROURACIL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030931687     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199710)19:7<567::AID-HED2>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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