Modified neoadjuvant therapy regime with low dose irradiation in advanced head and neck cancer patients: Preliminary results of a pilot study to minimize side effects

Oncology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1251-1253

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Hartlapp, Joachim ^b   Esser, Elmar ^b   Christoph, Bernhard ^c   Krech, Rainer ^b   Alfrink, Martin ^a  

^a Paracelsus Klinik Osnabruck   (Germany)

^b Klin Onkologie Hamatologie I   (Germany)

^c MarienHospital Osnabruck   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combined radiochemotherapy; Locally advanced head and neck tumors; Minor side effects; Neoadjuvant therapy; Tumor regression

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; IFOSFAMIDE; MESNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR NECROSIS; VOMITING;

EID: 0031825749     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.5.5.1251     Document Type: Article

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