The use of concurrent chemotherapy with high-dose radiation before surgical resection in patients presenting with apical sulcus tumors

Cancer Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 365-371

  Suntharalingam, Mohan ^a   Sonett, Joshua R ^a   Haas, Michael L ^a   Doyle, L Austin ^a   Hausner, Petr F ^a   Schuetz, Julie ^a   Krasna, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Chemotherapy; High dose radiation; Superior sulcus tumors; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034581047     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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