Management of the neck in a randomized trial comparing concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy with radiotherapy alone in resectable stage III and IV squamous cell head and neck cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 559-566

  Lavertu, Pierre ^a   Adelstein, David J ^a   Saxton, Jerrold P ^a   Secic, Michelle ^a   Wanamaker, John R ^a   Eliachar, Isaac ^a   Wood, Benjamin G ^a   Strome, Marshall ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Neck dissection; Neck metastasis; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FLUOROURACIL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030987632     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199710)19:7<559::AID-HED1>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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