Moist skin care can diminish acute radiation-induced skin toxicity

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 179, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 708-712

  Momm, Felix ^a   Weißenberger, Christian ^b   Bartelt, Susanne ^b   Henke, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Radiotherapy; Skin care; Urea lotion

Indexed keywords

GUAIAZULENE; LANOLIN ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOISTURE; POWDER; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN CARE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN TOXICITY;

AMIFOSTINE; AZULENES; CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIPIDS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; OINTMENT BASES; OINTMENTS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PLACEBOS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SESQUITERPENES; SKIN; SKIN CARE; TIME FACTORS; UREA;

EID: 0141920515     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-003-1142-9     Document Type: Article

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