Current and potential role of thermoradiotherapy for solid tumours

Onkologie

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-302

  Hehr, Thomas ^a   Wust, P ^b   Bamberg, M ^a   Budach, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combined modality therapy; Hyperthermia; Radiosensitisation; Thermoradiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IFOSFAMIDE; OXALIPLATIN; PIRARUBICIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANUS CANCER; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOCAL THERAPY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PELVIS CANCER; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOSENSITIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOLID TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THORAX WALL CANCER; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038301956     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071628     Document Type: Review

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