Neoadjuvant and concomitant chemotherapy and radiation therapy in patients with advanced head and neck carcinoma

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-74

  Rinehart, John ^a   Ruff, Tibor ^b   Cheung, Alan ^b   Hutchinson, Lewis ^b   Tuggle, Roger ^b   Pinkston, D Randall ^b   Keville, Lisa ^b   Wong, Lucas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Temple TX 76508   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPENIA; DIARRHEA; DRUG INFUSION; DYSPHAGIA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NECK CANCER; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; RADIATION DOSE; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN IRRITATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 11144241347     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2004.08.006     Document Type: Article

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