Randomized trial with early-stage Hodgkin's disease testing 30 Gy vs. 40 Gy extended field radiotherapy alone

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 305-310

  Dühmke, Eckhart ^a   Diehl, Volker ^b   Loeffler, Markus ^g   Mueller, Rolf Peter ^b   Ruehl, Ursula ^h   Willich, Norman ^c   Georgii, Axel ^d   Roth, Stephan ^e   Matthaei, Dieter ^f   Schlen, Susanne ^a   Brosteanu, Olga ^g   Hasenclever, Dirk ^g   Wilkowski, Ralf ^a   Becker, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^h Krankenhaus Moabit   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early stage Hodgkin's disease; Radiotherapy; Randomized trial; Sufficient extended field treatment dose

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 10244247770     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(96)00333-1     Document Type: Article

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