Adjuvant therapy in invasive thymoma: An audit of cases treated over an 8 year period

Indian Journal of Cancer

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 46-56

  Agrawal, Sushma ^a   Datta, Niloy R ^a   Mishra, Saroj K ^a   Kumar, Shaleen ^a   Tandon, Vinni ^a   Ayyagari, Sundar ^a   Agarwal, Amit ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; COBALT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PROCARBAZINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREDNISOLONE; PROCARBAZINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0033086101     PISSN: 0019509X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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