Outpatient weekly neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: High complete response and low toxicity rates

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-194

  Lin, J C ^a,b   Jan, J S ^a   Hsu, C Y ^a   Jiang, R S ^a   Wang, W Y ^c  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Neoadjuvant; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0037468125     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600716     Document Type: Article

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