Treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (stage I, II) of the elderly: Usefulness of local and regional irradiation and reduced dose chemotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-92

  Oguchi, Masahiko ^a   Izuno, Itaru ^a   Takei, Kazuyoshi ^a   Shikama, Naoto ^a   Sasaki, Shigeru ^a   Gomi, Koutarou ^a   Sone, Shusuke ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Elderly; Geriatric disease; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; METHOTREXATE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0031050655     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(96)00470-1     Document Type: Article

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