Treatment of advanced hypopharyngeal cancer - Comparison of two modalities

Tzu Chi Medical Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Hung, Shih Kai ^a,b,c   Chen, Hung Li ^a   Hsieh, Chen His ^b   Hsu, Wen Lin ^a   Chang, Kuo Hwa ^b   Liu, Dai Wei ^a   Chen, Yuen Jen ^b   Lee, Moon Sing ^a  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c ST MARTIN DE PORRES HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concurrent chemoradiation; Hypopharyngeal carcinoma; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MANNITOL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 33644653249     PISSN: 10163190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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