Radiation therapy and chemotherapy in the treatment of head and neck extranodal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in early stage with a high grade of malignancy

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1 B, 1998, Pages 547-554

  Donato, Vittorio ^a,b   Iacari, Valter ^a   Zurlo, Alfredo ^a   Nappa, Mario ^a   Martelli, Maurizio ^a   Banelli, Enzo ^a   Enrici, Riccardo Maurizi ^a   Biagini, Carissimo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAUSEA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031896555     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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