Adjuvant treatment of locally-advanced head and neck tumours

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 183-188

  López, Victoria Reyes ^a   Yagüe, Begoña Navalpotro ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Postoperative readiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24044480376     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: 16993055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02712815     Document Type: Review

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