Treatment of anal carcinoma in the elderly: Feasibility and outcome of radical radiotherapy with or without concomitant chemotherapy

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 26-31

  Allal, Abdelkarim S ^a,c   Obradovic, Mirjana ^b   Laurencet, France ^a   Roth, Arnaud D ^a   Spada, Alexandra ^a   Marti, Marc Claude ^a   Kurtz, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Geneva Tumor Registry ^*  (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anal carcinoma; Chemotherapy; Elderly patients; Radiotherapy; Sphincter conservation

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

AGED; ANUS CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; ELDERLY CARE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHINCTER; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANUS NEOPLASMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MITOMYCIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032945806     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990101)85:1<26::AID-CNCR4>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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