Therapeutic results of alternating chemoradiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer using cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil: Its usefulness and controversial points

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 589-595

  Fuwa, Nobukazu ^a   Ito, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kodaira, Takeshi ^a   Matsumoto, Akira ^a   Kamata, Minoru ^a   Furutani, Kazuhisa ^a   Tatibana, Hiroyuki ^a   Sasaoka, Masahiro ^a   Morita, Kozo ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Alternating chemoradiotherapy; Cisplatin; Nasopharyngeal cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; GRANISETRON; ONDANSETRON;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLAVICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NEPHROTOXICITY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SHOCK; SKULL IRRADIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOMITING;

EID: 0035707832     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hye135     Document Type: Article

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