High-risk Merkel cell carcinoma of the skin treated with synchronous carboplatin/etoposide and radiation: A Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group Study-TROG 96:07

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4371-4376

  Poulsen, Michael ^a   Rischin, Danny ^a   Walpole, Euan ^a   Harvey, Jennifer ^a   Mackintosh, John ^a   Ainslie, Jill ^a   Hamilton, Chris ^a   Keller, Jacqui ^a   Tripcony, Lee ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME; CLINICAL TRIAL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ONCOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0642368569     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.03.154     Document Type: Article

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