Continuous hyperfractionated acccelerated radiotherapy with/without mitomycin C in head and neck cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 803-806

  Dobrowsky, W ^a,c   Naude J ^a   Widder, J ^a   Dobrowsky, E ^a   Millesi, W ^a   Pavelka, R ^b   Grasl, C ^a   Reichel, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Allgemeines Oeffentliches Krankhs ^*  (Austria)

^c Sonderabteilung fur Strahlentherapie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accelerated hyperfractionation; Mitomycin C

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIBIOTIC; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031597441     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(98)00321-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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