Radiation therapy, cisplatin and hyperthermia in combination in management of patients with carcinomas of the head and neck with N2 or N3 metastatic cervical lymph nodes

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-106

  Serin, Meltem ^a   Erkal, Haldun Şükrü ^a   Çakmak, Ahmet ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cisplatin; Head and neck neoplasms; Hyperthermia; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA; CISPLATIN; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033012791     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(98)00098-X     Document Type: Article

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