Weekly cisplatin administration concurrent with radiation therapy for locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-203

  Isobe, Koichi ^a   Uno, Takashi ^a   Aruga, Takashi ^a   Kawakami, Hiroyuki ^a   Ueno, Naoyuki ^a   Hanazawa, Toyoyuki ^a   Okamoto, Yoshitaka ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Concurrent chemoradiotherapy; Intergroup Study 0099; NPC; Weekly CDDP

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION;

EID: 21644479576     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-004-0471-8     Document Type: Article

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