Ten-year disease-free survival of a small cell lung cancer patient with brain metastasis treated with chemoradiotherapy

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3 B, 2004, Pages 2097-2100

  Niibe, Yuzuru ^a,b   Karasawa, Katsuyuki ^a   Hayakawa, Kazushige ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 3242738552     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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