Merkel cell carcinoma: Treatment and outcomes

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1761-1764

  McAfee, William J ^a   Morris, Christopher G ^a   Mendenhall, Charles M ^b   Werning, John W ^a   Mendenhall, Nancy Price ^a   Mendenhall, William M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHOEBE PUTNEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Merkel cell carcinoma; Radiotherapy; Treatment outcomes

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LIMB TUMOR; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; PAROTIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26444499463     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21355     Document Type: Article

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