Concurrent chemoradiotherapy with low-dose cisplatin plus 5-fluorouracil for the treatment of patients with unresectable head and neck cancer

Oncology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 226-231

  Kohno, Naoyuki ^a   Kitahara, Satoshi ^b   Tamura, Etsuyo ^b   Tanabe, Tetsuya ^b  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Chemoradiotherapy; Cisplatin, low dose; Head and neck cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; UFT;

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LASSITUDE; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; OTOTOXICITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036969936     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065469     Document Type: Article

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