Platinum-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy for tumors of the head and neck and the esophagus

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-19

  Hao, Desirée ^a   Ritter, Mark A ^b   Oliver, Tom ^c,d   Browman, George P ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; IRINOTECAN; MITOMYCIN C; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE;

ANEMIA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DERMATITIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DYSPHAGIA; ERYTHEMA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOPENIA; META ANALYSIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMATITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBE FEEDING; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 29244448687     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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