Treatment and prognosis of thymic carcinoma a retrospective: Analysis of 40 cases

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3115-3119

  Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Toita, Takafumi ^a   Uno, Takashi ^b   Fuwa, Nobukazu ^c   Kakinohana, Yasumasa ^a   Kamata, Minoru ^c   Koja, Kageharu ^a   Kinjo, Takao ^a   Adachi, Genki ^a   Murayama, Sadayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Multimodality treatments; Radiation therapy; Surgery; Thymic carcinoma; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; COBALT 60; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COBALT TELETHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYMUS CANCER; THYMUS SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037096862     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10588     Document Type: Article

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