Absence of thoracic radiation myelitis after hyperfractionated radiation therapy with and without concurrent chemotherapy for stage III nonsmall-cell lung cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 343-346

  Jeremic, Branislav ^a,c   Shibamoto, Yuta ^b   Milicic, Biljana ^a   Acimovic, Ljubisa ^a   Milisavljevic, Slobodan ^a  

^a University Hospital   (Yugoslavia)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KBC Kragujevac ^*  (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Hyperfractionated radiation therapy; Nonsmall cell lung cancer; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION SICKNESS; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS;

EID: 17144471262     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00713-X     Document Type: Article

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