Simultaneous radiochemotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in advanced head and neck cancer: A randomized multicenter study

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1318-1324

  Wendt, Thomas G ^a   Grabenbauer, Gerhard G ^a   Rödel, Claus M ^a   Thiel, Hans Joachim ^a   Aydin, Halim ^a   Rohloff, Ralf ^a   Wustrow, Thomas P U ^a   Iro, Heinrich ^a   Popella, Christian ^a   Schalhorn, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 0031925723     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1998.16.4.1318     Document Type: Article

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